A thick fog developed over southeast Queensland last night, with visibility reduced to less than 200 m at Brisbane Airport early this morning. A combination of light winds and plentiful atmospheric moisture created ideal conditions for fog to develop across a broad area of southeast Qld on Tuesday night. As the sun rose on Wednesday, […]
Monday was another wet day for inland parts of eastern Australia, with several towns recording their largest rain totals in 14 years. This comes after parts of eastern Australia saw heavy rainfall over the weekend, with Menindee in far western NSW recording its wettest July day in 138 years in the 24 hours to […]
Parts of outback SA, NSW and Queensland have received heavy rain over the weekend, with the town of Menindee in far western NSW recording its wettest July day in 138 years. The weekends downpour has closed multiple roads in NSW, SA, Vic and Qld, due to water over roads. Take a look at the map […]
An entire season’s worth of rain could soak parts of the Australian outback during the next few days as a cut-off low causes heavy rain over several states and territories. An unusually strong high pressure system centred to the south of Australia will cause moisture-laden air to flow over Australia from the east in the […]
Rain will drench a large area of central, southern and eastern Australia this week as an unusual weather pattern causes Coral Sea moisture to clash with a cut-off low directly above Australia. A large high pressure system will deepen to the south of Australia later this week, causing a pool of cold upper-level air to […]
A blocking-high pressure system will park itself directly over Tasmania this week, and is forecast to become so strong, it challenges an Australian record. High pressure is crossing the Great Australian Bight after a cold front swept over southeastern Australia this weekend. While high pressure is common after a cold front, this particular high pressure […]
Early last month, we said that May would be a make-or-break month for the positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) that could be forming this year. Turns out, it has most likely broken. A positive IOD occurs when the trade winds along the equator blow to the west instead of the east, causing an upwelling of […]
Massive waves reaching nearly 6 metres impacted the NSW coast on Sunday, with damaging waves continuing to impact the central coastline on Monday. A Tasman Low is behind mammouth southeasterly swell along the eastern seaboard and it’s not going anywhere fast, with the large waves set to continue until mid-week. The satellite images below show […]
A Tasman Low pressure system will whip up large and powerful swell for several days from Saturday, with the potential to impact port operations along the eastern seaboard. The images below show that a stubborn high-pressure system will cradle the low and keep it over the Tasman Sea between Saturday and Wednesday. Images (top […]
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 […]
