Equip your sites with WZBob, and achieve sitewide lightning alerting
Weatherzone’s WZBob expansion system extends your lightning alerting capabilities in the field, ensuring your staff stay safe and aware. With a combination of light beacons, sounders and a modular, scalable configuration, you can customise the setup to suit...
How is Aussie snow converted to hydropower?
Hordes of Australians flock to the snow every winter to go skiing and snowboarding in the Alps. But snow plays another important role in Australia by providing electricity to households and businesses across the National Electricity Market (NEM). What...
Morning fog delays flights in Adelaide
Adelaide was trapped beneath a thick layer of fog and low clouds this morning, reducing visibility and delaying transport across the city. A combination from moisture evaporating after yesterday’s rain and light winds allowing the temperature to cool...
Negative IOD pattern gaining strength
The Indian Ocean Dipole index has just reached its most negative value since at least 2017, increasing the likelihood of wet weather over southeastern Australia in the coming months. The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is an index that...
Record month for wind power in Australia’s National Electricity Market
New data shows June was one of the best ever months for renewable energy in Australia’s National Electricity Market and a record-breaking month for wind power. June 2022 was a relatively dry and cool month for much of eastern and...
Already Sydney’s 8th wettest July and 9th wettest year on record
Sydney is now having its 8th wettest July and 9th wettest year in more than 160 years of records after picking up close to four months’ worth of rain in the opening week of July. Sydney’s Observatory Hill...
Why is 2022 so wet in eastern Australia?
Parts of Australia’s east coast just endured their wettest first half of a year on record, which has this week culminated in the third major flood event of the year in central eastern NSW. But what has made 2022 so much...
Brisbane’s coldest pair of days in 66 years
Blanketing cloud cover and persistent rain sent shivers across large areas of Queensland over the last 48 hours, with Brisbane enduring its coldest pair of days since 1956. The sequence of satellite images below shows a large cloud...
