Northern Australia's annual monsoon season brings relief to drought-stricken lands and revitalizes crops and livestock for ...

Western Australia, which is currently seeing a number of fires, saw its driest October on record with below average rainfall for over 80 per cent of the state.. For Queensland, it was the sixth ...

Climate change is driving a major divergence in where rain falls in Australia. In northern Australia, average wet-season rainfall is now about 20 per cent higher than 30 years ago. But in southwestern ...

Recent rainfall in south-western Victoria and southern South Australia have wrongly led many to believe the drought is over.

While tropical cyclones have decreased 23 per cent worldwide since 1950 according to a 2022 study in Nature, the speed of decline has been faster in the Australian region, falling around 30 per ...

The below map shows how the "chance of extremes" looks in BOM's forecast. ... placed firm bets on below-average rainfall for most of Australia, along with warmer-than-unusual temperatures.

Western Australian towns reaching above average included Halls Creek (892mm), Morawa (373mm), Carnarvon (270mm) and Kununurra (994mm). Victoria is yet to reach its annual rain averages.

Australia’s climate has risen by an average 1.5 degrees since 1910. Credit: Dion Georgopoulos. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in 2018 that even if global temperatures were ...

Through July rainfall was below average for various parts of Western Australia scattered throughout both the north and south, south-eastern SA, northern Victoria, southern NSW and western Tasmania.