It’s going to be a wild week in Tasmania, with the potential for 180km/h winds, more than 200mm of rain and snow in the west, thunderstorms, hail and freezing temperatures. Damaging winds have already begun across elevated areas on Monday, with Mount Wellington observing a mean wind speed of 100km/h and a gust of 129.6km/h at […]
A prolonged period of powerful winds will lash the southern half of Australia from this weekend into next week as a deep low pressure system lingers over the Southern Ocean. A complex and slow-moving low pressure system will pass between Australia and Antarctica over the coming week. This low will send a series of strong […]
There are signs that another sudden stratospheric warming episode could occur above Antarctica towards the end of August, increasing the likelihood that the Southern Hemisphere’s polar vortex will continue to be disrupted into September. This event could have an ongoing influence on Australia’s weather patterns this spring. What is Sudden Stratospheric Warming? Sudden stratospheric warming […]
The recent spring-like weather in Australia’s southeastern states is set to end abruptly, as a band of fierce winds, rain and severe thunderstorms spread across the region in the coming days. The satellite image below shows a low pressure system and associated front to the south of WA approaching SA rapidly from the west on Wednesday […]
Unseasonably high 24-hour rainfall totals have again been recorded to 9 am Wednesday across large parts of southern Queensland and northern NSW, with the heaviest falls in Queensland’s Capricornia, Wide Bay and Burnett, and Southeast Coast forecast districts. The city of Rockhampton recorded 85 mm to 9 am Wednesday, which made it the wettest August […]
Flood watches have been issued between central Queensland and northeast New South Wales as unseasonably heavy rain continues to drench parts of eastern Australia. A deep layer of moisture-laden east-northeasterly winds interacting with a pair of upper-level low pressure systems is causing widespread rain over eastern Australia. This drenching kicked off on the weekend and […]
Several cold fronts will batter southern parts of Australia this week, bringing much needed rain to areas that have seen record low rainfall this year. During the last year, stubborn high pressure systems sitting over southern Australia have forced cold fronts and rain bearing systems south. This led to parts of South Australia, Tasmania […]
Parts of the Pilbara, Kimberley, WA’s interior, and inland SA are about to see a prolonged period of wet weather, as an upper-level trough moves over the region. The image below shows the upper-level trough over the Pilbara region on Friday night, which will slowly progress further east into central Australia on the weekend. Images: […]
Ongoing stratospheric warming above Antarctica looks set to influence weather patterns across the Southern Hemisphere into August as a strong negative Southern Annular Mode (SAM) takes shape. The atmosphere above East Antarctica started to warm abruptly during the middle of July. This warming initially started in the polar stratosphere, around 30-40km above East Antarctica, but […]
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 […]
