A Tasman low is whipping up blusterous southerly winds and large and powerful swell on Monday, likely impacting port operations in NSW. Waves peaked at 6 metres offshore of Eden on the NSW south coast at 4am Monday morning as the low whipped up a long southerly fetch and swell. Some other notable observations […]
Fierce winds are moving across parts of WA, SA, Vic, NSW and the ACT on Friday as two intense cold fronts sweep across southern Australia. The satellite image below shows the first cold front moving over SA and the other following closely behind in the Bight. Image: Himawari-9 satellite images at around 6:40am on Friday, […]
The coming weeks’ weather will be a mixed bag of severe weather and mild wintry weather, in response to a shift in the jetstream. Our planet’s jetstreams are bands of fast-moving air that sit about 10km above the surface. They typically flow from west to east and lie between regions of contrasting temperature. You […]
Perth has enjoyed its wettest 24-hour period in over a year, after 43.8 mm fell in the 24 hours to 9 am Thursday. Weatherzone meteorologist Ashleigh Madden wrote on Wednesday afternoon that a cold, wet change was heading the way of southwest SA, and the cold front duly arrived on Wednesday evening. As you can […]
Heavy rain has fallen in parts of Victoria overnight, with 100 mm recorded at two weather stations, and flood watches in places for several forecast districts. Several other locations across the state recorded falls in excess of 50 mm to 9 am Tuesday, as a low pressure system over the Tasman Sea directed moisture onto […]
The low pressure system just east of Tasmania has delivered the heaviest rain of the year to many parts of Tasmania as well as wild winds exceeding 100 km/h. This is a strong, intense low pressure system and it’s drawing in plenty of moisture from the Tasman Sea to the east. That’s why the chart […]
A rare sudden stratospheric warming event is beginning to occur above Antarctica, and it may influence Australia’s weather in the coming weeks. The term sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) refers to an abrupt increase in air temperature high above either of Earth’s polar regions, typically on the magnitude of tens of degrees Celsius in a few […]
A major polar outbreak in southeastern Australia next week will produce a powerful low pressure system that is likely to bring severe weather to several states. A large pool of cold air that originated over waters near Antarctica will spread across southeastern Australia from this weekend into next week. This polar air mass will cause […]
One thing we haven’t seen so far this winter in Australia – and which we barely saw through the whole of last winter – is snow in areas beyond the alpine regions of NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. But snow looks highly possible over a period of several days beginning early next week in places like: […]
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 […]
