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Australia has just had another quieter-than-average tropical cyclone season despite La Niña, which usually helps boost cyclone numbers in the region.  Australia’s tropical cyclone season runs from start of November until the end of April. This season, there were nine...

  Two cold fronts are about to sweep across southern Australia, with the second front bringing a lengthy spell of wintry weather in the opening week of May.  The satellite image below shows the sun rising over a cold air...

  Australia could be about to feel the impacts of a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) for a second consecutive year, for the first time in more than 60 years of records. After three years of crippling drought between...

  Numerous roads have been closed across the SA outback after an injection of tropical moisture dumped around five months’ worth of rain in the state’s northern pastoral districts. A low pressure trough being fed with moisture from the...

  Temperatures are set to plummet across southwestern WA during the next few days as a cool airmass sweeps across the region.   The first cold front will move through the southwest of WA on Tuesday, causing a noticeable drop...

  A burst of late-wet season rain has inundated parts of northern and central QLD, with some areas picking up more than 700 mm of rain over the past five days. Image: Observed rainfall anomalies between October 2021 and...

  Heavy rain, thick cloud and thunderstorms will impact several states and territories from this weekend into next week as an injection of tropical moisture moves across Australia.  A trough currently sitting over the northern interior will dip south...

  The La Niña that just helped deliver Sydney’s wettest start to a year on record is struggling to break down in the Pacific Ocean, suggesting it may last longer than some forecast models suggest. The Southern Hemisphere’s autumn...