Powerful cold front approaching WA
A powerful cold front is approaching WA, and will generate a wild mix of record warmth, extreme fire danger, 100km/h winds, severe thunderstorms, and heavy rain across the state on Wednesday. Record heat Ahead of this front, heat has...
Warm week ahead for southern, southeast Australia
A wave of warm air will sweep across Australia this week, sending temperatures to their highest levels in months in several states and territories. A high pressure system sitting over southeastern Australia at the start of this week...
Sydney skyline disappears under smoke haze
For Sydney residents, the smell and sight was eerily reminiscent of late 2019 when Black Summer bushfires encircled the city. The smoke caused minor disruptions at Sydney Airport Monday morning as the haze dropped visibility to 8300 metres. Fortunately,...
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...
