Phone outage and barge delay cap a tough week in Cape
Imagine if we actually copped a cyclone? The weather was wet and a little wild on the Western Cape last week but not even close to cyclonic. Yet phones dropped out for a 10-hour period and the barge was late on arrival (twice) into Weipa. Shoppers hoping to procure fruit and vegetables on Saturday morning left disappointed as not only did the Sea Swift barge turn up late into port, but couldn’t offload due to a mechanical breakdown.
Bureau of Meteorology – climate outlooks
Rainfall is likely to be above average for much of Australia with higher chances in northern Queensland. Warmer than average days likely around most coastal regions and Tasmania. La Nina is likely to break down during autumn and return to neutral conditions.
Bureau of Meteorology – weekly rainfall update
Tropical lows with an active monsoon generated moderate to heavy falls in the northern tropics. A pre-frontal trough and weak cold fronts produced moderate falls in South Australia. The highest weekly total was 389 mm at Lockhart River Airport in far north Queensland.
Bureau of Meteorology – weekly rainfall update
Tropical cyclone Kimi developed east of Cairns and tracked towards the coast, bringing moderate to heavy falls to the north tropical Queensland coast. A cold front brought moderate falls to southern Victoria and western Tasmania. The highest weekly total was 369 mm at Babinda in north-east Queensland.
Bureau of Meteorology – climate outlooks
February to April rainfall is likely to be close to or above average for much of Australia, particularly for Queensland and northwest Western Australia.
2020: a year of drought, fire and flood
Rainfall across NSW was above average for most of the state in 2020, a stark contrast to the extreme dryness which parched most of the land in 2019 and crippled the livelihoods of many agricultural producers and rural communities. NSW also recorded the warmest spring on record in over 100 years in 2020, with temperatures more than 2C above average. After 2020 began with record-breaking heatwaves and devastating bush fires which burned close to 25 million hectares of land ...
Weipa the wettest place on the Cape
There's still two months of wet season to run and Weipa is out to an early lead in the rainfall stakes.
The three rain gauges...
Wetter than average weather tipped
A month ago, the BoM declared a La Nina event, which means wetter than average conditions expected in the next few months. How does that work? It all depends on the Walker circulation.
