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...
Terrifying footage of drivers caught in Spanish flash flood
An intense flash flood swept through Zaragoza in northeastern Spain last Thursday, catching motorists completely off guard by the torrent of water. On Thursday 6th a near-stationary supercell thunderstorm formed over the region, dumping a torrential 20mm of rain in...
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...
