Prolonged cold outbreak for southeastern Australia
A frigid airmass originating from Antarctica is on its way to Australia on Friday, with the southeastern states expected to shiver through a prolonged cold spell. This airmass will arrive behind a cold front over the weekend and will...
A stormy taste of spring for NSW and Qld
The weather is feeling quite spring-like over northern NSW and southern Queensland, with warm days, smoke from hazard reduction burns and even a chance of thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday. Northerly winds ahead of a trough and cold front...
Could Australia see a negative IOD in 2024?
A wet spring could be on the cards for large parts of Australia, with several models suggesting a negative Indian Ocean Dipole could develop in the Indian Ocean. A negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) refers to a pattern of...
Negative Southern Annular Mode (SAM) emerging
Nodes of polar air could soon be sweeping around the Southern Hemisphere as tropospheric weather patterns respond to recent warming in the stratosphere above Antarctica. Over the past fortnight, a pool of abnormally warm air disrupted the shape of...
Southeastern Australia to bask in winter warmth
Temperatures will reach 5 to 7°C above average in some capital cities this week as a warm airmass moves across Australia’s southeastern states. This burst of warmth is being caused by warm west to northwesterly winds ahead of a...
Another windy week
There has been a major shift in the wind pattern over southern Australia, with another great wind power week on the cards. During autumn and the beginning of winter, the National Electricity Market (NEM) saw a wind drought...
Perth eyeing off first wetter-than-average month of 2024
Rain and thunderstorms will spread over southwestern Australia in the next few days, giving Perth a chance of registering its first wetter-than-average month in more than a year. The satellite image below shows a large band of cloud highlighting...
Wild blizzards and a ‘feels like’ temp of minus 21
Blizzards are in the forecast for the high country of New South Wales and Victoria for the coming weekend, and in case you’re wondering, “blizzard” is actually a technical weather term in the Australian context. On the BoM’s severe...
