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A deep low & associated front is providing blustery showers & storms over south coastal WA, southern SA, Vic, & developing across western Tas. Onshore winds around a ridge of high pressure to the east results in a few showers along the NE NSW and Qld coasts.
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Today, 9:20AM UTC
Dust, rain and damaging winds as cold fronts slam SA
Damaging winds and squally showers will continue to lash SA over the next 36 hours as a pair of powerful cold fronts sweep over the state. A complex low pressure system moving over the Bight will cause two cold fronts to cross SA between Monday and Wednesday this week. The first front arrived in the south of SA on Monday, preceded by a powerful surge of northwesterly winds that whipped up a large dust storm over the parched Eyre Peninsula. Image: Dust storm over SA’s Eyre Peninsula on Monday, June 23, 2025. Monday’s dust storm occurred as blustery winds scoured dry topsoil from a part of SA that just had one of its driest starts to a year on record. Rainfall totals for the first 5 months of 2025 have been in the lowest 5% of historical records for most of SA’s agricultural area, with some places enduring the driest start to a year on record. This included the Eyre Peninsula. Image: Rainfall deficiencies for the first 5 months of 2025. Source: Bureau of Meteorology The wind that preceded Monday’s cold front removed topsoil from farms that are in desperate need of rain. Fortunately, the rain did eventually arrive on Monday and by 7pm ACST, falls of 3 to 10 mm had been recorded over the Eyre and York Peninsulas and Kangaroo Island. Powerful winds and showers will continue to spread over the southern half of SA through Monday night, Tuesday and into Wednesday morning as the complex low and associated fronts cause an ongoing barrage of wet and windy weather. This wintry weather will be exacerbated by a pool of cold air being driven across the state by the low pressure system. The damaging winds, showers and wintry temperatures associated with this system will also affect Australia’s southeastern states over the next couple of days. Severe weather warnings are currently in place for parts of SA and several other states. These warnings will be updated in the coming days, so be sure to check the latest warnings in your area for the most up-to-date information.
Today, 1:24AM UTC
Canberra endures coldest run of nights in 60 years
Temperatures have plummeted to bone-chilling lows in Canberra over the past week, with the city just registering its coldest run of nights since 1965. While freezing nights are typical in Canberra at this time of year, last week’s minimum temperatures were unusually frigid even by local standards. This strong of frosty nights was caused by the combined influences of a dry air mass, clear skies and light winds, which collectively caused the ideal conditions for intense overnight cooling in the ACT during the past week. Image: Satellite image showing clear sky over the ACT shortly after sunrise on Sunday morning. Every night between Tuesday and Sunday last week (not including Sunday night) saw minimum temperatures dropping lower than -5°C in Canberra. These were the official daily minimum temperatures recorded in the 24 hours ending at 9am local time each morning: Wednesday: -5.1°C Thursday: -5.5°C Friday: -7.2°C Saturday: -7.6°C Sunday: -7.5°C The last time Canberra had five consecutive nights below -5°C was in 1965. It has also been 8 years since the city had three nights in a row below -7°C. Sunday night into Monday morning brought an end to Canberra’s run of minimum temperatures below -5°C, with the city ‘only’ cooling to -4.1°C. Increasing cloud cover and rain will lift the overnight temperature more substantially on Monday night into Tuesday morning, with a minimum temperature of 5 to 6°C predicted in the city. This respite will be short-lived though. Canberra’s minimum temperatures are forecast to return to about -3°C by Thursday and Friday mornings.
22 Jun 2025, 6:06AM UTC
Blustery winds, heavy rain lashed WA, now heading for nation’s southeast
Look at a satellite image right now and you'll see a spectacular swirl of cloud in the Great Australian Bight. But for all its beauty, that swirl, generated by a powerful low pressure system, has already packed a bit of a punch for southern WA and it's now set to impact SA. As the low skirted the southwest corner of WA on Friday and Saturday, it sent a powerful front over the region, generating gusty winds, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. Wind gusts of 83 km/h were recorded over coastal areas such as Busselton, Cape Leeuwin and Rottnest Island on Friday, heralding what was to come. By 9am yesterday (Saturday, June 21), southwest WA had seen some of its most significant rainfall in years, including: 48.2 mm at Garden Island – the wettest day of any month in over five years and its wettest June day in at least 22 years The wettest day since August 2022 at Berkshire Valley (29.8 mm, its wettest June day in 32 years), Tibradden (39.8 mm, its wettest June day in 13 years) and Strawberry (36.0 mm, its wettest June day in four years) 29.0 mm at Bellendaine, its wettest June day in at least 23 years 26.0 mm at Canterbury, its wettest June day in 13 years 22.0 mm at Dalwallinu, its wettest June day in a decade. Significant rainfall was also recorded in the 24 hours to 9am at Witchcliffe West (64.0 mm), Jarrahwood (57.0 mm), Cowaramup (54.0 mm), Warner Glen (52.0mm), and Busselton (43.0mm). Even the Perth area got a decent look-in with 47.2 mm for Jandakot, 46.4 mm for Swanbourne and 28.4 mm for Perth Airport. Image: Satellite and radar imagery, together with mean sea level pressure (white isobar lines) and 24-hour accumulated rainfall observations (coloured/numbered squares) at 11:00 am AEST / 9:00 am AWST, Saturday, June 21, 2025. The gusty winds continued over coastal southwest WA, with gusts of 94 km/h at Rottnest Island, 93 km/h at Cape Leeuwin, 89 km/h at North Island and Cape Naturaliste, and 83 km/h at Red Rocks Point, while important transport hubs like Perth Airport and Busselton Jetty recorded gusts of 72 km/h. As the low spiralled east toward the Bight overnight, winds began to pick up at Esperance, with gusts of 76 km/h late last night, reaching a crescendo of 89 km/h well before sunrise this morning. Now, the winds are beginning to pick up over the SA coast. A wind gust of 76 km/h was recorded at Minlaton airport on the Yorke Peninsula at around 10 am today, with many parts of central SA and the west coast now consistently experiencing wind gusts of 40-50 km/h. These wind gusts should strengthen later tonight, with gusts of 60-90 km/h expected over SA’s south tomorrow, gusting up to 80 km/h over Adelaide. As we mentioned in our story on Friday, those winds are then expected to increase over southeastern states in the coming days as the low continues to track east, crossing Tas late on Tuesday, June 24. Damaging wind gusts are expected for parts of SA, Vic, NSW, the ACT and Tas, including capital cities, mainly on Tuesday and Wednesday, as you can see from the images below. Images: Forecast wind gusts at 10:00 am AEST on (top) Tuesday, June 24, and (bottom) Wednesday, June 25. As with WA, this system is also expected to bring significant precipitation to the nation’s southeast, particularly over northern Tas and the Australian Alps of northeast Vic and southeast NSW, where rain is expected to fall as snow, which will be welcome news for ski resorts. As mentioned yesterday, there is the potential for blizzards in the Alps, with extremely cold temperatures expected for Vic, Tas, eastern NSW and the ACT as the cold front of this system crosses the southeast. Image: Accumulated precipitation to 4:00 pm AEST, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. As this system continues to unfold, conditions will significantly deteriorate in southeast states. Be sure to check Weather Warnings over the coming days to stay up to date on severe weather impacting your area.