Tropical cyclone and wet season wrap up 2020/21

Huge Southern Ocean swells generated by a series of cold fronts are bearing down on three of Australia’s coastlines, and parts of Indonesia and the Pacific. Vigorous cold fronts to the south and southwest of Australia have been generating gale to storm force winds over the past few days. Gale force winds can be estimated […]

A broad cloudband of tropical origins is stretching across much of NSW, bringing chilly daytime temperatures and low solar energy generation. The satellite imagery below shows a broad area of cloud extending across much of NSW on Tuesday. The temperature observation overlaid shows the mercury struggling to exceed the low-teens, with alpine and tableland areas […]

Tropical Storm Nari, the fifth tropical cyclone of the western Pacific typhoon season formed over the weekend, and is tracking close to Tokyo and northern Japan on Monday. As seen in the satellite imagery below, Nari tracked north rapidly on Monday morning, coming within 250 kilometres of Tokyo around midday. Video: Satellite imagery of Tropical […]

The data is in, and Australia just registered its warmest financial year on record with a mean temperature more than 1.5°C above the long-term average. It may seem odd to measure the climate of Australia’s fiscal year, but there are benefits to compiling climate summaries for the 12-month period from July to June. Firstly, the […]