Coldest night of 2024 to date
Australia has shivered through its coldest night of 2024 to date, with freezing temperatures recorded in New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. A year-to-date low for Australia of –5.7°C was recorded at Perisher Valley in NSW The coldest overnight...
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...
