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...
Perth’s hottest early December week in 90 years
While the remainder of the country is experiencing cloudy and rainy conditions, Perth’s mercury is soaring this week. A stubborn high-pressure system in the Bight is responsible for this heatwave, with hot and dry northeasterly winds prevailing over the west coast for a week. Perth has already seen four consecutive days...
Why is this La Niña so much wetter than last year’s?
La Niña just helped Australia register its wettest November on record and wettest spring in 11 years. So, why was this La Niña so much wetter than last year’s La Niña? Going back-to-back La Niña was officially declared during the last week of November 2021, making...
