Flooding in outback Qld, NSW seen from space
Satellites have captured images of floodwaters filling rivers and lakes in southwest Qld and northwest NSW, following heavy rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily. Clouds, rain and thunderstorms have been a persistent feature over Australia’s eastern inland during the last...
Excessive Heat in Australia: Understanding Causes and Impacts
Excessive heat is not just a scorching summer’s day. It’s a meteorological event characterised by temperatures that significantly exceed the average for a region. These heat conditions pose serious threats to both the environment and human health. Excessive heat...
Tasman Sea warm enough to support a tropical cyclone
The oceans off the NSW and Qld coast are extremely warm and theoretically could provide enough energy to bring a tropical cyclone into NSW waters. The map below shows that the temperatures off the Coffs Coast and...
Severe heatwave about to hit Perth
Australia’s west will be gripped by a severe to extreme heatwave during the remainder of this week, with temperatures set to exceed 40ºC in Perth and reach close to 50ºC in the Gascoyne. A stubborn ridge of high...
The positive IOD is finally over
The Bureau of Meteorology has today declared the end of the persistent positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event, which contributed to the driest three-month period on record in 2023. The IOD is an index that measures the difference in...
Flooding rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily spreads to NSW
The low pressure system formerly known as Tropical Cyclone Kirrily continues to cause heavy rain, thunderstorms and flooding over Australia’s eastern outback, more than 10 days after it made landfall. Tropical Cyclone Kirrily crossed Qld’s North Tropical Coast on...
Warmest February night in decades for parts of NSW, Vic
Parts of eastern Australia just sweltered through one of the warmest nights in years, with temperatures in some towns failing to drop below 30ºC. The infrared satellite image below shows thick cloud encompassing the southeast in the...
Australia has never seen a January like it
Australia just had its third-warmest and ninth-wettest January on record, which is a remarkable combination. Ordinarily, you would not expect both above-average temperatures and above-average rainfall to go hand in hand. Simply put, that’s because clouds block direct sunlight,...
