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An unstable airmass and low pressure are bringing scattered showers and storms to WA's northern half, the NT, tropical northern Qld, and inland SA. Moist onshore winds are bringing isolated storms across eastern Qld.
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Today, 7:26AM UTC
Big week of showers and storms for outback Australia
Showers and storms will develop across a large portion of Australia this week, including in relatively dry parts of the interior. The storms will be caused by a series of troughs moving across the country, as a ridge of high pressure is centred over waters south of the continent for most of the week. Here's a quick look at where showers and storm activity could occur in each state and territory this week. Image: Accumulated rainfall across Australia from Monday November 9 to 11 am (AEDT) on Monday, November 16, 2026, according to the ECMWF model. Source: Weatherzone. Western Australia At a time of year when rainfall activity starts to ramp up in WA's north and declines markedly in the state's south, showers and storms will be remarkably widespread in WA this week. While Perth looks likely to miss out on all but the lightest drop, rain could fall from the Kimberley and Pilbara in northern WA down through regions like the Gascoyne, Goldfields and the North and South Interior, all the way south to the Eucla and eastern parts of the South West Land Division The potential for showers and storms is higher earlier in the week in northern WA, and increases throughout the week in southern and eastern regions. South Australia A band of showers and storms moved through SA on Monday afternoon, however accumulated totals have been generally less than 5 mm, while Adelaide itself didn't record a drop to 5 pm (ACDT). Adelaide should remain dry during the week ahead, however showers and storms will develop in SA's far west and north by Thursday. Unusually, the North West Pastoral forecast district is the SA region most likely to see significant rainfall between Tuesday and Friday. Northern Territory The Top End wet season is not yet fully into swing and Darwin can expect a string of mostly sunny days with only the slight chance of an afternoon shower until Friday. Further south in the territory, it's a different story. By Thursday and Friday, there's the chance of heavy falls of rain and thunderstorms in the Lasseter forecast district in the NT's south, which includes Yulara and Uluru. Potentially, this could be the second significant rainfall event at Uluru in two weeks, after Yulara caught 41 mm of rain at the end of October, and the rain didn't miss nearby Uluru, as illustrated in the image below. Image: Temporary waterfalls on Uluru in late October, 2026. Source: Billy Hall (oz_eco_tours) on Threads. Queensland Showers and storms will develop in northwestern Queensland on Tuesday and Wednesday and spread in an arc across the state all the way to the southeast, where Brisbane can expect showers and/or storms just about every day this week from Tuesday onwards. Severe thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall, large hail, and damaging wind gusts are possible across a broad sweep of central and southeastern Queensland on Wednesday into Thursday. Victoria Most of Australia's dynamic wet weather will be located much further north than Victoria this week. But isolated showers and storms are still possible across much of the state, especially in the east towards the end of the week. Melbourne should be dry and mostly sunny right through until at least Saturday. New South Wales/ACT By midweek, the northeast corner of NSW and some other areas in the state's north could see some severe thunderstorms in the same outbreak of dynamic weather that is due in South East Queensland. Showers are also possible in coastal districts on most days, while the rest of the state (including Canberra and the ACT) should be largely dry until the weekend, when rain looks likely to intensify along the coast and adjacent ranges as a coastal trough develops. Tasmania A shower here and there can be expected on the Tasmanian coast at various times throughout the week, but the dominant ridge of high pressure centred over the waters of the Great Australian Bight will ensure relatively dry, mild, uneventful weather in our southernmost state for much of this week.
Today, 12:18AM UTC
Cold snap wrap: when will SE Australia warm up after freezing weekend?
Temperatures again plunged below zero on Monday morning in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the ACT after an unseasonably cold November weekend that saw widespread chilly conditions, frosty mornings, and even snowfalls in elevated areas. Much warmer weather is rapidly approaching, but before the last of the cool air pushes out into the Tasman Sea, here's a summary of some of the weekend extremes. Coldest weekend temperatures recorded across Australia's southeast (all on Sunday morning) VIC -5.9°C at Mt Hotham NSW -5.1°C at Perisher ACT -4.9°C at Mt Ginini TAS -3.9°C at Liawenee SA 0.1°C at Naracoorte Aerodrome Coolest weekend minimums and maximums in the SE capitals (Saturday to Monday morning) Adelaide: 8.9°C on Saturday morning, 19.3°C on Saturday afternoon (November averages 13.2°C and 24.4°C) Melbourne: 6.7°C on Monday morning, 15.2°C on Saturday afternoon (November averages 11.3°C and 22.0°C) Hobart: 6.0°C on Sunday morning, 14.4°C on Sunday afternoon (November averages 9.4°C and 18.8°C) Canberra: 1.5°C on Sunday morning, 17.2°C on Sunday afternoon (November averages 9.8°C and 24.8°C) Sydney: 9.6°C on Sunday morning, 19.0°C on Sunday afternoon (November averages 15.7°C and 23.7°C) Of the above temperature readings, perhaps the most notable was Sydney's minimum on Sunday morning, which was the city's coldest for November in 20 years. What caused the chilly outbreak and when will warmer conditions return? An unseasonable cold front surged over southeast Australia during the weekend, bringing an air mass with polar origins that would have been considered cold even if it had arrived in midwinter. Image: Satellite and radar loop over SE Australia for the four hours to 6 pm (AEDT) on Saturday, November 7, 2026, showing the speckled air mass typically associated with polar outbreaks crossing Tasmania and the southeast. Source: Weatherzone. The loop above shows the period during Saturday afternoon when heavy snow showers affected the southeastern mainland. Snowflakes fell down to at least 1000 metres above sea level, with around 3 to 5 centimetres accumulating at higher elevations of the ski areas of New South Wales and Victoria. Image: Roadside scene near Perisher, NSW, on Saturday, November 7, 2026. Source: Steve Smith. Most of the moisture associated with this system then moved rapidly out into the Tasman Sea, although showers and cold conditions persisted along the NSW coastal fringe on Sunday. It remains relatively chilly for November in Sydney and other parts of the NSW coastline this Monday. Indeed at 11 am, Sydney (17.1°C with a "feels like" temperature of 11.6°C) was marginally colder than Melbourne (17.2°C with a "feels like" reading of 14.5°C). That's an indication that warmer air is moving in from the west, with Melbourne expecting a maximum of 28°C on Tuesday before an expected high of just 18°C on Wednesday, as the classic spring temperature see-saw dips again. Image: Daily forecast for Melbourne, Vic, on the Weatherzone app. For Sydney, the working week's warmest day should be Wednesday with a maximum around 27°C, although some outer western suburbs like Penrith are expecting temperatures around 32°C.
07 Nov 2026, 11:58PM UTC
Coldest November nights in decades for Sydney and parts of southeast
An unseasonable cold front surged over southeast Australia during the weekend, bringing not only plummeting daytime temperatures and more alpine snow than many fronts last winter but also a very cold night. There were hard frosts in the alps this morning (and around 10cm of accumulated snow) with recorded minima of -5.9°C at Mt Hotham, -5.6°C at Falls Creek and -5.1°C at Perisher Valley. In Sydney, temperatures dropped to 9.7°C, the coldest November night in 20 years. Single digit minima were recorded across much of the southeast mainland and Tasmania, and other centres that recorded their coldest November night in nearly a decade or more were: Ouse (-0.9°C), coldest since November, 2008. Goulburn Ap (-1.0°C), coldest since November, 2014 Casterton (0.5°C), coldest since November, 2017 Coonawarra (0.4°C), coldest since November, 2017 Although warm northerly winds are starting to take over in SA, another cold night is expected for much of the southeast into Monday morning. Single digit temperatures are again likely throughout Victoria and southeast NSW, extending into far southeast SA as cold air lingers, winds ease and a high drifts overhead. Frosts are possible over central inland Victoria and around the South West Slopes and Central Tablelands of NSW, covering an area of farmland from Orange and Lithgow in NSW to the Victorian alpine valleys and west to the Grampians. Sheep Graziers Alerts are also current. Image: Observed minimum temperatures for Sunday, November 8th. Source: Weatherzone and Bureau of Meteorology. Image: Forecast minimum temperatures for Monday, November 9th, according to the ECMWF model. Note that global models have poor skill at localised minimum temperatures, and some will likely be cooler than indicated. Source: Weatherzone.