Total Lightning Network detected 245,000 lightning strikes in 24 hours
An outbreak of early-spring thunderstorms has caused prolific lightning over Australia’s southeastern states during the last 24 hours. The animation below shows lightning spreading across central and southeastern Australia on Thursday and Friday morning. These storms were triggered...
Where’s the spring weather gone?
Melbourne will shiver today through one of the coldest days of the year despite entering the second week of spring. The satellite image shows a region of speckled cloud sweeping across Southern Australia, highlighting a large cold airmass...
Enormous line of storms crossing three states
The strong early spring cold front continues its march across eastern Australia, generating wild winds and a huge line of storms stretching from southern Qld, all the way through NSW, and into Victoria. No notable rainfall totals have been...
Australia’s warmest winter on record
Australia just had its warmest winter in more than a century of records with lean snow cover and prolific lightning rounding out an almost unrecognisable season. Australia’s national mean temperature in winter 2023 was 16.73ºC, which is 1.53ºC above...
Spring temperature seesaw to bring fire and snow in Australia
If you live in the southern half of Australia, take extra care when deciding what to wear this week because temperatures will bounce around like a seesaw. September is always a time of contrasting temperatures across Australia as warm...
Will solar power boom or bust this spring and summer?
The first day of spring is nearly here and solar power is set to soar as the warm and sunny months of the year are upon us. During spring the days will slowly becoming longer and warmer...
Rumbling, stormy day across NSW, Qld
It’s the sort of stormy day in large parts of New South Wales and Queensland this Wednesday that reminds you that spring is just around the corner. You can see the storms moving across the central and eastern...
Unusually warm winter temperatures drop energy demand in SA
On Tuesday, South Australia basked in an unusually warm winter day dropping energy demand across the state. It is rare to see a 26ºC day in Adelaide during winter, but that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday as the...
