Ex- Tropical Cyclone Lincoln should re-develop into cyclone off the Kimberley coast in WA on Friday night, before setting its sights on the Pilbara and northern Gascoyne in the next 48 hours. Lincoln will be the first Tropical Cyclone to impact WA this season, but it is the second Tropical Cyclone to move into the Western […]
The hot air mass that helped create large fires in Victoria and Tasmania on Thursday will shift its focus to NSW on Friday, causing temperatures to spike in Sydney. Thursday was a dangerous day of heat and fire danger in southeastern Australia as a mass of hot air combined with strong and dry winds […]
Ex-Tropical cyclone Lincoln is likely to re-develop into a cyclone by Friday morning, before it sets its path towards the Pilbara or Gascoyne coasts on the weekend. The image below shows clouds rotating around ex- tropical cyclone Lincoln on Thursday morning when the system was around 270 km northwest of Broome. Image: Himawari-9 satellite imagery […]
A burst of very hot, dry and windy weather will cause extreme fire danger across parts of Vic, SA and Tas today, with temperatures predicted to reach the mid to high 30s in Melbourne and Hobart. A surge of northwesterly winds ahead of an approaching cold front will drive hot and dry air into southeastern […]
Parts of eastern NSW, including Sydney, will face another day of heavy showers and potentially thunderstorms today. A broad upper-level low and numerous surface-based low pressure troughs are producing wet and stormy weather over NSW at the start of this week. On Monday, heavy showers and severe thunderstorms soaked parts of eastern, central and northern […]
A flurry of severe thunderstorms hit Sydney on Monday, causing heavy rain and lots of lightning. A line of thunderstorms started approaching Sydney from the east shortly before midday. By 12:30pm, a new thunderstorm cell had formed directly over the CBD, producing loud thunder, lightning and heavy rainfall. Several other storms then popped up across the […]
Near-stationary thunderstorms caused a burst of heavy rain near Newcastle on Monday morning, with more downpours expected in other areas of NSW and southern Qld later in the afternoon and overnight. Moisture-laden air interacting with a low pressure trough will produce showers and thunderstorms over a broad area of eastern and northern NSW, and soutern […]
A tropical low (07U) has now formed over the Gulf of Carpentaria, with a moderate chance of becoming a tropical cyclone on Thursday or Friday. The satellite image below shows a broad-scale circulation rotating clockwise around the tropical low on Wednesday morning. Image: Himawari-9 visible (top) shows the system rotating and the water […]
Thunderstorms will develop over parts of NSW on Wednesday, with severe storms possible in the afternoon and evening. The low pressure trough that triggered severe thunderstorms in parts of Vic and southern NSW on Tuesday will move further north across NSW on Wednesday. This system is likely to trigger showers and thunderstorms over a […]
Australia’s tropical cyclone season is officially underway, but we may not see much activity for few months yet. The season runs from November to April, and for mining operators and businesses across northern Australia, 2026-27 is shaping up to be a season where the headline numbers and the real risk may not line up. On […]
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole is underway, but this one is unlikely to deliver the textbook dry spring and summer that businesses have come to expect from the pattern. The Bureau of Meteorology officially declared a positive IOD on Tuesday, October 27, which typically like El Niño can cause drier and warmer conditions over parts of […]
Waters off Indonesia have cooled in recent weeks, an indication that a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event could be developing. It’s an important climate driver for Australia, and it could shape rainfall and temperatures heading into summer, with flow-on effects for farmers, energy and other industries. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD […]
Leonora, WA, had its wettest September day on record earlier this month. Three weeks later, more than 1.3 million lightning pulses were detected within 800 km of the town in 48 hours. Why is a stalled trough delivering storms to mining country, and what it could mean for operations? The DTN Total Lightning Network detected […]
