East Coast Low looms for eastern NSW
As rain finally eases over floodwaters in northern NSW and southeast Qld, the focus of this dangerous weather system now shifts to central and southern NSW. The animation below shows the sun rising over eastern Australia on Tuesday...
677 mm in three days breaks Brisbane rainfall record
An extremely dangerous flooding situation has developed in southeast QLD and northeast NSW in response to several days of unrelenting rainfall, which included Brisbane’s wettest three days on record. A dynamic weather pattern involving a sustained stream of moisture-laden...
Tropical Cyclone Anika to redevelop near Broome
Heavy rain and damaging winds are spreading along the Kimberley coast as Ex-Tropical Cyclone Anika gets set to reintensify over the coming days. Tropical Cyclone Anika formed over the Timor Sea on Friday night before drifting south and making...
Tropical Cyclone Vernon forms, Anika looms
Tropical Cyclone Vernon has formed near the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Anika could soon follow, much closer to mainland Australia. The satellite image below shows several blobs of cloud to the northwest of Australia. These clouds show areas of...
Autumn bushfire outlook tells a strong La Nina tale
The autumn bushfire outlook has been released by the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services, and as you’d expect given the wet, La Niña-influenced summer in the east, and the scorching WA summer, the outlook is very different...
Darwin on tropical cyclone watch
A tropical cyclone watch has been issued for Darwin as a low-pressure system gains strength in the Timor Sea. The satellite image below shows clouds building over the Timor Sea on Thursday, associated with a developing Tropical Low. Image:...
Sydney’s wettest summer in 30 years
More than 120mm of rain during the last two days means Sydney is now having its wettest summer in 30 years. A persistent stream of moisture feeding into a slow-moving low-pressure trough caused 105.2mm of rain to fall in...
Major flooding in southeast QLD after 388 mm in nine hours
An overnight deluge has kicked off what is going to be a very wet four days in southeast Queensland and northeast NSW, with major flooding already occurring and likely to become more widespread in the coming days. A deep...
