Australia’s tropics will be invigorated by a pulse of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) this week, increasing the risk of tropical cyclone activity near Australia. A surge of monsoonal winds crossing the Maritime Continent will cause an injection of moisture-laden air into the tropics near Australia over the coming week. This monsoon burst will coincide with […]
East Asia experienced significant drops in temperatures this weekend, which could lead to flooding rainfall over Indonesia and tropical cyclones in the Australian region. But how? After reaching maximum temperatures of about 25°C during the day, Hong Kong experienced a cool change on Saturday evening as a cool and dry northerly wind reached the territory. […]
A sweltering inland air mass will filter across NSW on Sunday, bringing scorching autumn heat that could cause challenges across the energy market. This heat will be drawn from the Australian interior by a broad low pressure trough and cold front crossing the country’s southeast, leading to increasingly hot temperatures into the weekend. The hottest […]
Nearly all of Thailand’s airports either have single or parallel runways, so how do monsoonal bursts affect the airport operations and why do they rarely need cross runways? Like most countries in the tropics, a seasonal reversal in the winds occurs with the shift in the monsoon. This makes infrastructure planning during an airport’s construction […]
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred brought intense rainfall and strong winds over the weekend, leaving about 450,000 homes across southeast Queensland and northeast NSW without power. The video below shows heavy rainfall impacting southeast Queensland and northeast NSW on Sunday evening as the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Alfred moved inland. Image: Six-hour radar and satellite loop to […]
While southeast Qld is bracing for dangerous weather from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, heavy rain that may cause flooding in the coming days will likely impact transport operations in the coming days across NSW. The video below shows Alfred crossing the coast near or to the south of Brisbane and rapidly weakening over land to a […]
More than 700 mm of rain could inundate parts of southeast Queensland and northeast NSW later this week as Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall, impacting businesses in the densely populated stretch of Australia’s east coast. At 10am AEST on Monday, Alfred was a category one tropical cyclone located about 465km east northeast of Brisbane. Image: […]
After months of intense heat, the Monsoon’s rains bring joy and prosperity to India, but its seasonal downpours can disrupt transport, mining, and energy industries. As the Northern Hemisphere summer comes around, the Indian interior heats up significantly, leading to an area of low pressure over India’s north. Moist winds from the Indian Ocean, to […]
Severe Tropical Cyclone Alfred will edge closer to the Queensland coast on the weekend, with huge waves and gales impacting port operations across large parts of the Qld and northern NSW coasts in the coming days. Alfred is currently a category three system and is spinning around 850 kilometres northeast of Mackay and is slowly […]
Bushfire risk doesn’t usually make headlines in June, but AFAC’s winter seasonal outlook is putting mining and resources operators on alert from the Kimberley to the NSW. Australia’s official seasonal bushfire outlook for winter 2026 was released by AFAC on Thursday, May 28. The outlook predicts increased fire risk across the northern parts of the Great Sandy Desert and surrounds […]
In mid-May 2026, DTN APAC meteorologists flagged a strengthening Southern Ocean pattern in model guidance, signalling an extended run of record-challenging wind conditions across the NEM. Nearly three weeks later, NEM wind generation climbed from around 1.5GW to more than 9GW, supplying roughly one-third of the grid and coming within 1GW of the all-time generation record. The event highlighted […]
The Indian Southwest Monsoon will reach India in the next two weeks, but a developing El Niño could signal a drier than normal monsoon for businesses and major industries across the country. Southwest monsoon onset over southern India in the next two weeks The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is responsible for tracking the advance and […]
El Niño–favourable conditions are gathering pace across the tropical Pacific, with key ocean indicators approaching threshold levels and early atmospheric responses emerging. While uncertainty remains around final El Niño strength, historical analogues show that even weak events can generate widespread impacts, including reduced rainfall, warmer daytime temperatures, increased frost risk, elevated fire danger, reduced tropical cyclone activity, and more. Industries including […]
