It’s late November, where is the warm and sunny weather?
It has been quite an eventful week with the first tropical cyclone of the season, Paddy, developing near Christmas Island, off the northwest shelf of Australia. Paddy developed early in the cyclone season, the average date for cyclone development in Australia is around January. La...
It’s official, La Niña is here
On Tuesday, November 23, the Bureau of Meteorology declared that La Niña is here. This is now the first back-to-back La Niña in a decade, following the two consecutive La Niña events that occurred between 2010 and 2012. Tuesday’s declaration comes...
Australia’s first tropical cyclone of the season
Tropical Cyclone Paddy has just developed near Christmas Island, becoming the first named cyclone in Australia’s 2021/22 tropical cyclone season. An unassuming low pressure system that had been spinning away near Christmas Island over the weekend quickly gained strength on Monday morning. By 11am AWST,...
Another wet, cloudy and stormy week for the NEM
More heavy rain is on the horizon for already saturated areas in central and eastern Australia this week, with flooding and severe thunderstorms likely. Large areas of central and eastern Australia have already seen 2 to 4 times their average November rainfall and...
Low pressure system to bring heavy rainfall, strong winds and severe thunderstorms to the southeast
Heavy rainfall, strong winds and severe thunderstorms are all on the cards for parts of SA, VIC, TAS and NSW as a low-pressure trough moves over southeastern Australia. On Saturday the trough will generate rain and storms across southeastern Australia. Daily rainfall totals are expected to reach 20-30mm in...
Where is La Niña?
Australia has been under a La Niña Alert for more than a month and the U.S. officially declared La Niña a month ago. So, why hasn’t the Bureau of Meteorology officially declared La Niña yet? The Pacific Ocean has been showing signs...
How dangerous is lightning at an airport?
Thunderstorms and the lightning they produce are one of the world’s most dangerous weather phenomena. Each year in Australia there are on average five to ten deaths caused by lightning strikes and over 100 people are gravely injured a year. ...
Brace yourselves- A multi-day severe thunderstorm and heavy rain event to hit eastern Australia
Eastern Australia has been hit by widespread storms, heavy rain and strong winds across parts of QLD, NSW and eastern VIC on Wednesday. A low-pressure system and a broad inland trough in combination with an extremely humid airmass are behind the heavy rain and thunderstorms on the forecast each day until the weekend. The areas of...
