Tag: weather

  • WEEKEND WEATHER WITH JANE GOLDSMITH

    WEEKEND WEATHER WITH JANE GOLDSMITH

    Wet week ahead… A broad low pressure trough has brought the heaviest rain in six months to parts of New South Wales, starting what will be a very wet week for much of the state. The trough triggered widespread showers and storms from Queensland down to Victoria with the heaviest falls occurring west of the…

  • WEATHER UPDATE: BIG RAIN FOR INLAND AUSTRALIA

    WEATHER UPDATE: BIG RAIN FOR INLAND AUSTRALIA

    October was hot. The hottest on record for Australia in fact but it will be a huge turn around for November. A succession of rain events are going to draw tropical moisture down from the North-West and spread it across the land beginning from tomorrow, hitting southern NSW before spreading across the state next week.…

  • SPRING STORM PHOTO ALBUM

    SPRING STORM PHOTO ALBUM

    These photographs were sent to us from some of our viewers during today’s Spring storm! Want to share a photo or video with us? Submit them on www.weathershots.com.au or head to our Facebook page!

  • WEATHER: STORMY THURSDAY

    WEATHER: STORMY THURSDAY

    PHOTO: Matthew Fordham snaps a dark cloud at Maitland.  It’s a big afternoon of storms with numerous fronts making their way across northern NSW. One cell produced a tornado near Bundella in central west NSW. All this activity is due to a developing low. Its centre passed over the Hunter this afternoon allowing the sun…

  • WEATHER: MERCURY RISING

    WEATHER: MERCURY RISING

    PHOTO: Merewether Baths thanks to Dylan St John Temperatures are on the rise once again especially across the Hunter as the hot air from inland Australia moves across the NW Plains towards the Hunter and MNC. As this air creeps into NE NSW the atmosphere is becoming more and more stable to the development of showers…

  • WEATHER: ATMOSPHERE BECOMING STABLE

    WEATHER: ATMOSPHERE BECOMING STABLE

    It’s been a stormy week thanks to a slow moving trough that has drifted north across the region over the past few days. Today the storms flared up across the northern border ranges and tracked north towards the trough in southern QLD. As this instability clears and the high moves into the Tasman a NW…

  • HUNTER’S PERFECT SURF SESSION RUNS OUT

    HUNTER’S PERFECT SURF SESSION RUNS OUT

    Bad news for Hunter beachgoers tonight, with five months of near-perfect surf conditions coming to an end. There’s been almost 160 days of consecutive offshore winds and a reliable swell, thanks to a weather pattern that began around the time of the April storm.

  • WEATHER: SPECTACULAR SPRING

    WEATHER: SPECTACULAR SPRING

    Cool, dry, south-westerly winds moved across the region today, making for perfect blues skies overhead. Afternoon cloud increased, building to some isolated storm activity in south east Queensland and north east New South Wales. A nice, big storm rolled over Coolangatta. Tomorrow will be more of the same without the storm development.

  • WEATHER: ECL TO MOVE AWAY QUICKLY

    WEATHER: ECL TO MOVE AWAY QUICKLY

    A fast moving low has been making it’s way across NSW today. An early morning line of storms cleared and this afternoon the core of the system fired up patchy rain periods across the region with more storms across the NW Plains. Tonight the centre of the low will move offshore. Gale force winds and…

  • WEATHER: SPRING WIND AND RAIN ON THE WAY

    WEATHER: SPRING WIND AND RAIN ON THE WAY

    After a perfect start to spring, the cloud has been rolling in today and rain is on the way. A well-organised low is moving quickly across the south east. Winds will pick up speed and become strong to gale force, with the stronger winds felt on the Central Coast and Hunter overnight on Thursday. Rain…