Wet July sending Tas hydropower into overdrive
Tasmania has seen a wet and windy July, with cold front after cold front marching over the region filling hydropower dams in the region. The image below shows the last week of July was particularly wet for northwestern Tasmania,...
Powerful waves battering Sydney Coast
Unusually forceful waves are assaulting the Sydney coastline today. However, these waves have a peculiar quirk: they are not that big. So how can they be considered ‘powerful’? Waves this morning have been measured peaking at 4.5m off the...
NSW shivers through its coldest morning in years
Temperatures plunged below -10ºC in northern NSW on Thursday morning as parts of eastern Australia experienced their coldest morning in years, and the coldest July morning in decades. A slim high pressure ridge wedged between two cold fronts caused...
Bone dry freezing high
A broad high pressure system and dry desert air have brought on a bitterly cold night across southeastern Australia, while NSW will be in for its big freeze on Thursday. Temperatures fell four to nine degrees below the July...
BoM retains El Nino Alert, defying WMO
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is digging its heels into the sand and defying the World Meteorological Organization by announcing today that El Niño is not currently underway. The World Meteorological Organization issued a statement on July 4 declaring that...
How do we know what a temperature feels like?
Ever walked outside on a beautiful, 20°C day, but the wind whipped up making it feel like Frosty the Snowman just gave you a hug? Or have you sat in the shade on a 25°C summer’s day and feel like...
Uncharted climate territory as Earth posts hottest week on record
Global climate records are being rewritten this month, with Earth just registering its warmest week in recorded history and Antarctic sea ice anomalies plunging to their lowest levels ever observed. Earth’s atmosphere is monitored constantly throughout the year by...
Does Australia really have more snow than Switzerland?
Do the Australian Alps – as in the mountains of our southeast mainland – really get more snow in winter than the Swiss Alps? It’s one of the oldest myths in Australian weather-related folklore, and it reared its head...
