How the SAM has caused Sydney Airport disruptions
Sydney Airport has been grappling with the challenges posed by strong crosswinds, forcing the airport to operate on a single runway several times over the past few weeks. These gusty westerly-component winds (exceeding 20 knots or 37 km/h at...
Tuesday was the world’s hottest day on record
The record for the world’s hottest day has been broken twice this week, according to new data published by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. We are talking here about global average temperatures, NOT the hottest single official...
Wild winds ahead for southern Australia
A series of cold fronts will cause a burst of windy weather across a large swathe of southern Australia during the next 4 to 5 days, with potential for widespread damaging winds this weekend. The satellite images below show...
El Nino not here yet, says BoM
The Bureau of Meteorology has refrained from declaring El Niño this week as the atmosphere stubbornly refuses to respond to lingering warm water in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Murmurs of a potential El Niño have been circulating since the...
Rare July rain soaks far western Qld
Parts of Western Queensland are already having their wettest July on record after copping 10 to 15 times their monthly average rainfall in the last 24 hours. A northwest cloudband has been causing rain in far Western Qld since...
Perth staying chilly after coldest June in 50 years
Cold and staying that way. That’s the forecast for Perth as yet another cold front bears down upon southwestern WA after the coldest average max temps for June in 50 years. We’ll deal with this week’s chilly weather in...
Historically, how cold was Sydney on Wednesday?
If you think it was cold in Sydney on Wednesday, June 28, you’re not wrong. The harbour city’s maximum of 11.7°C was by far its lowest of the year It was a full five degrees below the June average...
Dry season floods threaten northern Aus this week
Unseasonably heavy rain and flooding could cut off roads in the Kimberley and central Australia this week. The satellite images below show a large northwest cloudband extending across Australia on Monday morning. This colossal cloudband, which is being fuelled...
