Widespread rainband starting to soak Australia
A massive northwest cloudband is starting to spread rain across about 80 percent of Australia, including much-needed falls in drought-affected areas of southern Australia. A cut-off low pressure system will interact with a stream of tropical moisture over the...
Series of cold fronts bring coldest day of the year yet for southwest WA driving high energy demand
Parts of southwestern Australia endured their coldest day in 3-6 years on Monday following the passage of a cold front, with another burst of cold air on the way this Thursday. A cold front crossed southwestern WA on Sunday...
Deepest July Australian snowpack in four years feeds healthy hydro generation
Australia’s alpine regions have seen a number of cold fronts during June and July delivering the best July snow depth in four years, maintaining steady levels of hydro electrical power. The depth at Spencers Creek (elevation 1830m, roughly halfway...
Typhoon Wipha sideswipes Hong Kong and southern China disrupting hundreds of flights and bringing flooding
Intense flooding rainfall, powerful winds and large waves impacted Hong Kong and southern China on Sunday as Typhoon Wipha crossed the region cancelling hundreds of flights and resulting in local closures of businesses. The sixth tropical storm of the...
Powerful swells sweeping across Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific impacting port and maritime operations
Huge Southern Ocean swells generated by a series of cold fronts are bearing down on three of Australia’s coastlines, and parts of Indonesia and the Pacific. Vigorous cold fronts to the south and southwest of Australia have been generating...
Daytime chill across NSW with cloudband impacting solar production
A broad cloudband of tropical origins is stretching across much of NSW, bringing chilly daytime temperatures and low solar energy generation. The satellite imagery below shows a broad area of cloud extending across much of NSW on Tuesday. The...
Tropical Storm Nari threatens Tokyo and northern Japan shipping and transportation industries
Tropical Storm Nari, the fifth tropical cyclone of the western Pacific typhoon season formed over the weekend, and is tracking close to Tokyo and northern Japan on Monday. As seen in the satellite imagery below, Nari tracked north rapidly...
Australia’s warmest financial year on record
The data is in, and Australia just registered its warmest financial year on record with a mean temperature more than 1.5°C above the long-term average. It may seem odd to measure the climate of Australia’s fiscal year, but there...
