The Australian snow season is expected to take off to a slow start in 2025, but conditions could become better into the second half of the season. When is Australia’s snow season? Australia’s snow season typically runs between the long weekends in June and October. In 2025, the snow season will run from about June […]
Australia is battling through an exceptionally humid end to the year skyrocketing energy demand, so what’s behind it? What are ‘feels–like’ temperature and dewpoint? During November, large areas of Australia experienced uncomfortably humid conditions, with the sticky conditions seeping down into southern Australia, which usually has a drier climate. Large parts of the NT, northern […]
The heaviest August rain in almost half a century has fallen in a town to the north of Perth on Wednesday morning, as a very unstable airmass moved across the region. A coastal trough extending from offshore Two Rocks to Bullsbrook and a cold front sweeping across southern WA triggered severe thunderstorms on Wednesday morning. The […]
Damaging winds, blustery showers and wintry thunderstorms will lash parts of southwestern Australia on Tuesday as a cold front hits WA, elevating wind power generation in the state. The satellite animation below shows the front approaching the southwest of WA on Tuesday morning. The band of thicker cloud off the southwest coast of WA highlights […]
A cold front is set to deliver long-awaited rain to SA in the next 48 hours as it swiftly sweeps across the state. The image below shows a thick cloud band, with some rain entering the far west of SA on Wednesday afternoon. Image: Himawari-9 satellite image at 11:10am AEST on Wednesday, May […]
Thick fog crept across Sydney on Friday morning, halting ferry services across the harbour for several hours. The fog formed in pockets of Sydney’s west around 4am and funnelled into Sydney’s east via the Paramatta river early Friday morning. The fog that Sydney’s east experienced this morning is called advection fog, where light northwesterly winds […]
Parts of Western NSW, Qld and Vic have seen double their average May rainfall in the last 24 hours, with rainfall set to continue Friday before focusing on the east on the weekend. The rain is being generated by an upper level trough which is sitting over the region, which is expected to move east […]
Rain will soak parts of WA over the coming week, although forecast models are struggling to agree on whether this burst of wet weather will bring much-needed rain to parched Perth. This rainfall will be caused by a low pressure trough extending from the Kimberley down to southwestern WA from late Thursday, with a low […]
Sydney has ended its third warmest summer on record with a warm and muggy day featuring afternoon thunderstorms – providing a fitting end to what was an unusually sweaty season for the NSW capital city. Sydney’s mean temperature this summer will come in at around 24.1ºC, which is just over 2ºC above the long-term […]
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 […]
