Record warm start to winter for parts of Australia
Large areas of Australia have just experienced one of their warmest starts to winter on record as global air and ocean temperatures surge to unprecedented levels for this time of year. The first fortnight of winter 2023 has featured...
Winter thunderstorms throwing everything at NSW
Rare outbreaks of thundersnow, inversion lightning, and even a squall line have all hit NSW in the past 24 hours, as an unusually active winter storm system sweeps over the state. Thundersnow A rare outbreak of thundersnow has developed...
Australia officially on El Nino alert
El Niño and the typically drier-than-usual weather it brings across much of Australia is now officially one step closer after the BoM issued an El Niño Alert this Tuesday, June 6. “The Bureau’s *ENSO Outlook...
Wettest Perth day in five-and-a-half years
Rain, and plenty of it, has drenched Perth overnight, in a welcome soaking for the WA capital. A total of 71.2 mm rain fell in the 24 hours to 9 am (AWST) Monday, most of it in a series...
Australia’s Winter 2023 outlook
El Niño and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole could combine forces to cause abnormally warm and dry weather over large areas of Australia this winter. The meteorological winter in Australia runs from June 1 until August 31. These are...
Brisbane, Sydney endure coldest May nights in decades
The final month of autumn has been exceptionally cold in eastern Australia, with parts of Sydney and Brisbane just registering one of their coldest Mays on record based on minimum temperatures. May is typically a time of cooling in...
One of Australia’s two active volcanoes is erupting
Satellites have spotted lava spilling down the side of Big Ben, one of only two active volcanoes located on Australian territory. The image below shows a clear view of Heard Island captured by a Sentinel-2 satellite on May 25,...
Cyclone Mocha could lead to a hot dry spring in Australia
Tropical Cyclone Mocha, which devastated Myanmar and Bangladesh earlier this month, may have set off a chain-reaction in the Indian Ocean Dipole that will lead to a hot, dry spring in Australia this year. Tropical Cyclone Mocha was a...
