11-day Sydney cloudy and rainy streak set to end
Sydney has suffered through a relentless rainy spell, with only 3.8 hours of sunshine a day recorded on average during the first 7 days of July. This cloudy week was well below the average of 7 sunshine hours per...
Wettest July day in over a decade cuts off roads in NSW, Vic and Qld
Monday was another wet day for inland parts of eastern Australia, with several towns recording their largest rain totals in 14 years. This comes after parts of eastern Australia saw heavy rainfall over the weekend, with Menindee in...
Enhanced wind power in WA
Damaging winds, blustery showers and wintry thunderstorms will lash parts of southwestern Australia on Tuesday as a cold front hits WA, elevating wind power generation in the state. The satellite animation below shows the front approaching the southwest of...
Major Antarctic outbreak from this weekend
There are increasing signs that a prolonged cold snap is on its way to southeastern Australia from Antarctica later this week into next. The frigid air will be dragged from Antarctica by a cold front sweeping across the continent...
Heaviest July downpour in a century for outback town impacts transport
Parts of outback SA, NSW and Queensland have received heavy rain over the weekend, with the town of Menindee in far western NSW recording its wettest July day in 138 years. The weekends downpour has closed multiple roads in...
Great snowmaking weather, natural snow still low
Freezing cold temperatures this week in Australia’s alpine areas created ideal conditions for snowmaking – the process by which a mixture of water and compressed air is pumped out into the chilly mountain air to form ice crystals that...
Unusual wind direction to elevate wind power
After a lull in the winds this week, wind power is set to pick up from rock bottom as a rare easterly wind surge impacts Qld, NSW and SA. Wind power has been slack this week across the National...
Heavy outback rain about to soak Australia
An entire season’s worth of rain could soak parts of the Australian outback during the next few days as a cut-off low causes heavy rain over several states and territories. An unusually strong high pressure system centred to the...
