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Negative SAM delivers snow and fierce winds

  The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) has strongly negative for the first time in 2024, bringing the first cool spell and snowfall to parts of southeastern Australia this week.  The image below shows a strong cold front sweeping across...

Tasmanian snow and tropical lows

The first significant snowfall of autumn 2024 has fallen across higher elevations of Tasmania as a cold front whipped through southeastern Australia overnight, while tropical lows continue to dominate the pattern in northern Australia. This was the Wednesday morning...

Southerly buster approaching NSW

  The infamous southerly buster will move up the NSW coast on Wednesday impacting port operations in the region.  Southerly busters are an abrupt southerly change with wind gusts exceeding 54 km/h (29 knots) and a temperature drop of...

NT flooding as Ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan moves inland

The remnants of Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan will carry heavy rain across the NT over the next few days as communities assess the damage in the powerful system’s wake. Megan made landfall as a category three severe tropical cyclone...

Cyclone Megan battering NT coast

Destructive winds have started to lash the NT coastline as Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan edges closer to making landfall. At 9:30am ACST on Monday, March 18, Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan was a category three system located 55 km east...

First cold snap of the season

While Monday’s national weather focus is on Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan in the Gulf of Carpentaria, another big system is looming down south that will impact southern Australia in coming days. The first strong cold front of autumn 2024...

Over 650mm forebodes Tropical Cyclone Megan’s arrival

After dumping half a year’s worth of rainfall over Groote Eylandt in the past 48 hours, Tropical Cyclone Megan is building strength in the Gulf of Carpentaria and will make landfall over the NT coast on Monday night.  Tropical...

Sticky summer for Australia’s NEM

We have crunched the numbers and yes, summer was very humid across much of southeastern Australia.   Many cities in the National Electricity Market (NEM) recorded dewpoints 3 to 5°C above average this summer, with Sydney recording its highest...

Water near Sydney warm enough to support a tropical cyclone

A tongue of water warm enough to support tropical cyclone development has been detected off the central NSW coast this month, breaking temperature records in the western Tasman Sea. Sea surface temperatures off the NSW coast have been running...