Could Australia see a negative IOD in 2024?
A wet spring could be on the cards for large parts of Australia, with several models suggesting a negative Indian Ocean Dipole could develop in the Indian Ocean. A negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) refers to a pattern of...
Negative Southern Annular Mode (SAM) emerging
Nodes of polar air could soon be sweeping around the Southern Hemisphere as tropospheric weather patterns respond to recent warming in the stratosphere above Antarctica. Over the past fortnight, a pool of abnormally warm air disrupted the shape of...
Southeastern Australia to bask in winter warmth
Temperatures will reach 5 to 7°C above average in some capital cities this week as a warm airmass moves across Australia’s southeastern states. This burst of warmth is being caused by warm west to northwesterly winds ahead of a...
Another windy week
There has been a major shift in the wind pattern over southern Australia, with another great wind power week on the cards. During autumn and the beginning of winter, the National Electricity Market (NEM) saw a wind drought...
Perth eyeing off first wetter-than-average month of 2024
Rain and thunderstorms will spread over southwestern Australia in the next few days, giving Perth a chance of registering its first wetter-than-average month in more than a year. The satellite image below shows a large band of cloud highlighting...
Wild blizzards and a ‘feels like’ temp of minus 21
Blizzards are in the forecast for the high country of New South Wales and Victoria for the coming weekend, and in case you’re wondering, “blizzard” is actually a technical weather term in the Australian context. On the BoM’s severe...
Damaging winds lashing five states and territories
Fierce winds are moving across parts of WA, SA, Vic, NSW and the ACT on Friday as two intense cold fronts sweep across southern Australia. The satellite image below shows the first cold front moving over SA and the other...
Jetstream behind this week’s severe weather
The coming weeks’ weather will be a mixed bag of severe weather and mild wintry weather, in response to a shift in the jetstream. Our planet’s jetstreams are bands of fast-moving air that sit about 10km above the...
