How can nearly a metre of rain fall from the sky in just a few days?
After nearly a week of heavy and persistent rainfall across NSW and QLD, locals may be wondering how that much rain can fall from the sky for that long? There are many ‘ingredients’ that worked together to generate some of the largest accumulated rainfall totals that NSW has...
The business of weather
Today we celebrate World Meteorological Day (March 23), with this year’s theme focusing on ‘The ocean, our climate and the weather’. It is also the beginning of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). Torrential rain in...
World Meteorology Day: how the mighty ocean serves Australia and the rest of the world
Today is World Meteorology Day and this year we are celebrating the ocean. The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and influences earth’s weather and climate. Of course, most Australian’s love the ocean, beach holidays and if you...
NSW’s 5th consecutive day of heavy rainfall leads to riverine flooding and evacuations
The NSW floods have been declared a natural disaster with the worst flooding since 1990 expected to inundate the Hawksbury-Nepean basin in Sydney’s west. Over 18,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in NSW, as today delivers the...
A balancing act, too much or too little cloud are both a challenge for the electricity grid
To many Australian’s delight, renewable energy is booming across Australia. Rooftop solar is regularly installed for households and solar and wind farms are popping up everywhere. South Australia (SA) has seen a major solar and wind farm boom in...
Summer 2021 wrap up for the NEM
La Niña has just delivered much of the NEM the wettest and coldest summer in at least 5 years. But how have extreme temperatures and wind power stacked up this summer compared to the past?
An active tropical cyclone season was promised, but has this been delivered?
Coming into the 2020/21 tropical cyclone seasons, all signs were pointing towards an above-average number of cyclones in the Australian region. So far this season, this hasn’t eventuated. So what happened? The tropics have actually been very active this...
A cloudy and rainy year thus far for Sydney
It has been a cloudy and rainy year thus far for Sydney, with 28 of the 55 calendar days recording rainfall. This unusual summer has seen more days of rainfall than not. The wet weather is set to continue,...
