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Cold and gusty winds behind a front are bringing the odd light shower to SA, Tas, Vic, and southeast NSW. Upper moisture and a broad area of instability is triggering thunderstorms over northeast WA and the western NT. Dry and generally settled elsewhere under a broad high.
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Today, 3:46AM UTC
Wet weekend in southwest WA, mostly dry elsewhere
It's the Labour Day long weekend in New South Wales, South Australia and the ACT, while in the rest of the country, it’s a regular two-day weekend. That’s not ideal timing for people in Perth and nearby parts of WA, with rain expected both days this weekend before a clearing pattern sets in from Monday onwards, but it is good news for those attending the NRL Grand Final between the Melbourne Storm and Brisbane Broncos in Sydney. Southwest WA weather Let’s start in the west, where the heaviest rain in WA's South West Land Division should fall on Saturday with totals of up to 20mm or slightly higher possible in the Margaret River area. Persistent showers with slightly lower totals are likely further north in Perth. Perth is yet to see any rain in the first few days of October after it exceeded its average monthly rainfall in each of the four traditionally wet months from June to September this year for the first time in 18 years. So while the cold front and associated moisture surging northwards this weekend may not be ideal for those hoping to spend time outdoors, most locals will welcome any rainfall before the dry period of the year sets in. Image: Hourly Graphs for Perth on the Weatherzone app. Perth’s long-term average for October is 38.9mm. That’s close to a quarter of the rainfall in the wettest month (July 147.8mm) while it’s roughly four times the rainfall of the driest month (December 9.4mm). At the end of September, Perth’s running 2025 rainfall total was 702.6mm, which was around 10% above average. Despite the relatively wet year to date, Perth’s water storages were at only half of capacity (49.4%) as of Wednesday, October 1. This reflects the city’s longstanding rainfall deficits, with below-average annual rainfall totals in each of the last three complete calendar years. The rest of the country Meanwhile most other parts of Australia can expect clear conditions for most of the weekend as a large high pressure system dominates the national weather pattern, although rain will start to move into parts of southern SA, Vic and Tas on Sunday afternoon or evening. Image: Synoptic chart for Saturday, October 4, 2025, showing the large high pressure system over eastern Australia and the cold front approaching WA. The pick of the weekend weather might be in Brisbane, where maximum temperatures in the mid-twenties can be expected before a run of heat in the new week as the mercury pushes up towards 35°C. Sunday's NRL Grand Final in Sydney should be played under clear skies. After a mid-afternoon maximum of 30°C at Sydney Olympic Park, temperatures should be around 25°C when the match kicks off at 7:30pm at Accor Stadium. Our Sydney Olympic Park forecast is here.
Today, 12:31AM UTC
Severe thunderstorms with giant hailstones lash parts of SE Queensland
Severe thunderstorms brought large hail and heavy rain to southeast Queensland’s Wide Bay and Burnett forecast district on the afternoon of Thursday, October 2, 2025. Skies were clear at midday with light sea breezes, but as as an upper trough moved over southern Queensland. in the afternoon, the combination of warm and humid conditions at the surface with colder temperatures aloft provided all the elements for an explosive afternoon. Explosive convection near Childers Satellite imagery from Thursday shows late morning cumulus cloud with cloud top heights of just over 1,500m rapidly exploding upwards to nearly 10,000m near Childers – roughly halfway between Bundaberg and Maryborough – within a space of just half an hour or so. Image: Three-hour satellite loop around the Wide Bay and Burnett region showing explosive thunderstorm development with lightning (purple) on Thursday, October 2, 2025. After crossing Childers, the thunderstorm split into two supercells, with one cell continuing towards the east, while the more southern cell tracked further south as a dangerous right-moving supercell (a rotating thunderstorm which moves to the right of the main atmospheric wind flow). Image: Radar imagery on the afternoon of Thursday, October 2, 2025 showing the normal storm motion to the east, with the right-moving supercell splitting off to the southeast towards Maryborough. This cell intensified strongly as it moved away from its left-moving counterpart, maximising the warm and moist environment all to itself. Giant hailstones with a diameter as large as 8cm were reported in the Maryborough area, while a total of 204,734 lightning strikes were recorded within 200 kilometres of Hervey Bay over a nine-hour period, with 25,050 of these strikes being ground strikes. Image: More than 200,000 lightning strikes were detected within 200 kilometres of Hervey Bay between 12:30pm and 9:30pm AEST on Thursday, October 2, 2025. Skies are clear across virtually all of Queensland this Friday as a ridge of high pressure establishes itself over the state. A continuation of fine, warm weather can be expected across virtually the whole state for much of the weekend.
02 Oct 2025, 2:37AM UTC
Australia's 2025-26 tropical cyclone names released
Australia’s 2025-26 tropical cyclone season is almost here and the names that will be used for cyclones throughout the season have been locked in. The Australian tropical cyclone season runs from the beginning of November to the end of April. During this six-month period, we usually see around 9-11 tropical cyclones in the Australian region, with 4-5 of these typically becoming severe tropical cyclones (category 3 or higher on the Australian scale). This season has the potential to be see a near to above average number of tropical cyclones in the Australian region due to an abundance of warm sea surface temperatures to the north of Australia and a weak La Niña-like pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The warm oceans to the north of Australia also help to increase the proportion of severe tropical cyclones this season. Tropical cyclone names Naming tropical cyclones in the Australian region is the responsibility of the Bureau of Meteorology and has been occurring since the 1960s. These names are assigned using a predetermined list that runs in alphabetical order and alternates between male and female names. The next 11 tropical cyclone names that will be used for systems forming in Australia’s area of responsibility are shown below, starting with Fina. Image: Names that will be used in the 2025-26 tropical cyclone season. Tropical cyclone names can be retired when a system causes significant damage or loss of life. There have been more than 130 names permanently retired in the Australian region, including: Tracy – The small but destructive system that hit Darwin early on Christmas Day in 1974. Olivia – The tropical cyclone that produced a wind gust of 408 km/h at Barrow Island, WA, in 1996. This is the current world record for the strongest wind gust ever observed directly. Debbie – A powerful severe tropical cyclone that hit eastern Qld in March 2017 before spreading flooding rain towards southeast Qld and northern NSW. Alfred – A slow-moving tropical cyclone that caused more than $1 billion damage and gained lots of media attention as it approached southeast Queensland earlier this year. It is not possible to know how many tropical cyclones will cross the Australian coast this season, or where they will strike. However, at least one tropical cyclone has made landfall over the Australian coastline in every season since reliable records began in the 1970s.