Numerous roads have been closed across the SA outback after an injection of tropical moisture dumped around five months’ worth of rain in the state’s northern pastoral districts. A low pressure trough being fed with moisture from the tropics produced thick clouds and rain across central Australia during the last two days. During the […]

  The La Niña that just helped deliver Sydney’s wettest start to a year on record is struggling to break down in the Pacific Ocean, suggesting it may last longer than some forecast models suggest. The Southern Hemisphere’s autumn is typically when La Niña events decay, allowing the Pacific Ocean to return to a neutral […]

  Parts of Victoria and the ACT just had an early taste of winter, with Melbourne and Canberra both shivering through their lowest temperature so far this year. Earlier this week, a pair of cold fronts crossed southeastern Australia, dropping temperatures and delivering a dusting of snow in the Tasmanian highlands. While the fronts have […]

  Six days of heavy rain and thunderstorms are on the cards for parts of the northern and western QLD as a burst of late wet-season rain targets northeastern Australia.   A low pressure trough and embedded tropical low are currently located over the northwestern Coral Sea. These systems will slowly drift further west in […]

  Snow could be seen atop kunanyi / Mount Wellington on Thursday morning as Hobart shivered through its second coldest morning so far this year. A pair of cold fronts crossing southeastern Australia during the last two days dragged a large mass of frigid Southern Ocean air across southeastern Australia. This burst of wintry weather […]

  Australia could be in for a wet winter, with new model data suggesting that a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) could emerge in the next few months.  Australia’s weather is influenced by several broad-scale climate drivers. These include:  El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – the Pacific Ocean fluctuates between La Niña, El Niño and neutral […]

  That gurgling sound in your drains? That glistening lawn? That damp aroma this morning? These unfamiliar sensory experiences are the result of Perth’s first significant rainfall in more than five months. While cities like Brisbane and Sydney on the opposite side of the country have been deluged in recent times – with Sydney taking […]

  Much of the Northern Territory’s Top End has had a drier than normal wet season so far but is likely to end it in a wet way. Showers and thunderstorms become an increased chance over the next few days as a pulse of moist, unstable air moves in from the east. Showers and storms […]

  Australia’s fog season is imminent as the nights begin to cool ahead of winter, but will this year’s La Nina increase the number of foggy days?  Fog is a visible aerosol that contains countless tiny water droplets suspended in the air, which reduce visibility below one kilometre. Fog typically forms when the skies are […]