A significant moment in the timeline of satellite weather observations over Australia, Eastern Asia and the western Pacific will take place on Tuesday afternoon, when the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) transitions from Himawari-8 to Himawari-9 as the primary geostationary weather satellite over the region. A geostationary satellite is one that is in geostationary orbit. As […]
A line of thunderstorms is moving across the entire Sydney basin and nearby areas on Monday morning, with strong squalls, heavy rain and a rapid drop in temperatures. Sydney started Monday with its warmest morning of summer 2022 to date by a large margin. The city reached 29.6°C just before 10 am. Temps topped 32°C […]
Nature’s fireworks lit up the Sydney skyline on Monday night as ominous shelf clouds and waves of rain swept across eastern NSW. Showers and thunderstorms formed over central and eastern NSW on Monday afternoon and evening as a passing cold front and low pressure trough cut into a region of warmer and relatively moist air. […]
Australia’s meteorological summer officially starts today, December 1. It’s a season that typically produces searing heatwaves, scorching bushfires, severe thunderstorms and tropical cyclones. But what type of weather can Australia expect to see this summer? Australia has entered summer off the back of its wettest springs on record, largely as a result of three dominant […]
Large areas of inland Australia are being warned of above-average fire activity early next year as prolific vegetation growth caused by this year’s flooding rain starts to dry out towards the end of summer. The Australian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) released the Summer 2022 Seasonal Bushfire Outlook for Australia on Tuesday. This […]
Rain and thunderstorms will soak a large area of northern and eastern QLD this week, with potential for heavy falls, severe storms and flooding. A near-stationary low pressure trough and one or two low pressure systems will produce a prolonged spell of rain and storms over QLD during the next five to seven days. Early […]
Some computer models suggest that El Niño could return next year, bringing an abrupt shift in one of our planet’s major climate drives following three consecutive years of La Niña. The graph below shows the most recent computer-based El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) outlook from the U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) and Columbia University’s International Research […]
Over the past few months, the stratosphere around Antarctica has been cooling, and that cooling is now starting to influence our weather in the lower atmosphere. What is the stratosphere? All the weather we experience on the surface of Earth occurs in the troposphere, which is the lowest 5 to 10km of the atmosphere. […]
Unusually cool temperatures in Australia and the tropical Pacific Ocean weren’t enough to stop last month from being one of our planet’s warmest Octobers on record, according to new data released by Berkely Earth. The map below shows the global mean temperature anomaly in October based on air temperatures over land and oceans combined, according […]
Australia’s tropical cyclone season is officially underway, but we may not see much activity for few months yet. The season runs from November to April, and for mining operators and businesses across northern Australia, 2026-27 is shaping up to be a season where the headline numbers and the real risk may not line up. On […]
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole is underway, but this one is unlikely to deliver the textbook dry spring and summer that businesses have come to expect from the pattern. The Bureau of Meteorology officially declared a positive IOD on Tuesday, October 27, which typically like El Niño can cause drier and warmer conditions over parts of […]
Waters off Indonesia have cooled in recent weeks, an indication that a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event could be developing. It’s an important climate driver for Australia, and it could shape rainfall and temperatures heading into summer, with flow-on effects for farmers, energy and other industries. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD […]
Leonora, WA, had its wettest September day on record earlier this month. Three weeks later, more than 1.3 million lightning pulses were detected within 800 km of the town in 48 hours. Why is a stalled trough delivering storms to mining country, and what it could mean for operations? The DTN Total Lightning Network detected […]
