Snow in WA as Antarctic air reaches Australia
Snow settled on the Stirling Range in WA on Thursday morning after a frigid polar air mass travelled from Antarctica to Australia. A long fetch of southerly winds has been blowing across the Southern Ocean during the past...
Strong cold front crossing southern Aus
A massive cold that slammed into WA on Wednesday will bring a burst of wind and rain to other areas of southern and southeastern Australia during the next 48 hours. Wind gusts exceeding 100km/h were recorded in parts...
Severe winter weather lashing WA
A wintry blast, with severe storms, potentially flooding rains, and bitterly cold temperatures are on its way to southwest WA, abruptly ending the region’s taste of spring on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the mercury was five to eight degrees above the...
Warmest July on record for parts of Australia
Tasmania and a few places on the Australian mainland just had their warmest July on record, while mid-winter rainfall was below average in much of southern Australia. The national mean temperature in July 2023 was 1.19ºC above the...
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...
