Wet winter looms with back-to-back negative IOD to follow double La Nina
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...
Heaviest rain in decades soaks SA outback
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...
Perth to see its coolest day in five months
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...
Rivers raging after heavy rain cuts outback roads in QLD
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...
Wet and cloudy week looms for the National Electricity Market
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...
La Nina holding on in Pacific Ocean, but for how long?
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...
Coldest morning of the year in Melbourne, Canberra
Parts of Victoria and the ACT just had an early taste of winter, with Melbourne and Canberra both shivering through their lowest temperature so far this year. Earlier this week, a pair of cold fronts crossed southeastern Australia,...
Very wet week for the northern QLD tropical coast
Six days of heavy rain and thunderstorms are on the cards for parts of the northern and western QLD as a burst of late wet-season rain targets northeastern Australia. A low pressure trough and embedded tropical low...
