Early look at Australia’s Christmas forecast
A hot air mass building over Australia this week will set the stage for a quintessentially hot and sweaty Christmas in some parts of the country. While large areas of Australia were kept unusually cool during November by...
Record-breaking run of positive SAM set to continue
New data has revealed that the Southern Hemisphere just saw a record-breaking run of positive Southern Annular Mode (SAM) values, and this run is set to continue until at least the end of the year. Here’s what that...
Could Australia hit 50C this week?
However, once the hot air spreads to low-lying regions in norhwestern Australia later this week, temperatures could approach 50ºC. The image below shows predicted surface air temperatures from the ECMWF-HRES model on Saturday and Sunday. Both days of...
Record $78bn year for agricultural production in Australia
Australia’s farmers are expected to post a record-breaking $78 billion agricultural production value in 2021-22, thanks in part to the first back-to-back La Nina events in a decade. Despite flooding rain delaying harvests and destroying some crops in...
Buildings flattened during record-challenging U.S. tornado outbreak
A lengthy investigation is underway in the U.S. following a potentially record-breaking outbreak of tornadoes in the country’s mid-Mississippi Valley late last week. Multiple tornado-producing thunderstorms tore across several states in the southeast U.S. on Friday, December 10,...
Coral Sea tropical cyclone likely to develop this weekend
A tropical low located to the south of the Solomon Islands has the potential to intensify into a tropical cyclone this weekend. The satellite image below shows the low in at 9am AEDT on Friday. The large mass of cloud in the image shows that there is a...
November a volatile month for Australian solar power
Parts of eastern and southern Australia just had their cloudiest November in decades, reducing solar power generation across several states. A wet, mild and cloudy November in Australia Last month was Australia’s wettest November on record and its coolest November in 22 years. It was also an exceptionally...
Heavy rain, damaging winds and large surf loom for NSW
A low-pressure system will drive heavy rain and strong winds into south-eastern NSW and far eastern VIC during the next couple of days, with flooding possible in some areas. An upper-level pool of cold air passing over NSW will allow a low-pressure system to develop at the surface, somewhere near the state’s southern...
