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Showers and some storms is scattering across the interior, SA, western Vic & western NSW as moisture feeds a trough ahead of a front. The front is bringing strong winds, showers, small hail & a few storms to southwest WA. A high is keeping much of the north and east of Aus dry.
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Sydneysiders cruising through warmest winter to date on record
Despite a relatively chilly start to August, Sydney is having its warmest winter to date on record. Sydney’s warmest winter to date on record In June, July, and the first week of August, combining days and nights, the city has been running 2.3 degrees warmer than the long-term average spanning 167 years. This winter so far, temperatures have been averaging 10.8 degrees for minimums, 19.5 degrees for maximums. Combining the city's overnight minimums and daytime maximums gives an average of 15.1 degrees so far. This is 0.6 degrees warmer than the previous record to August 8th, set in 2013. Being warmer than average by as much as 2.3 degrees may seem like quite a lot. However, so far this century, all winters have been warmer than the long-term average. It's been quite a while since winter has been colder than the long-term norm. Most of us wouldn't remember it, 48 years ago, in 1978. The city failed to cool below six degrees last winter and is on track to do the same this winter. Since temperatures have been recorded in 1859, the city has cooled below six degrees an average of 8 or 9 times each winter. The heat-island effect (from heat-absorbing concrete) is one of the main factors why big cities don't cool as much as when they were smaller, or as much as their surrounding area. Notably warm winter extending to western suburbs and much of NSW In Sydney's far southwest, Camden, typically several degrees colder than the city on a winter night, is also experiencing a notably mild winter. Camden has only chilled below zero degrees once, on July 24th. This is the longest it has taken to dip below freezing in 30 years. The first frost of the season is typically in June. It's been a similar story for much of New South Wales, even much of eastern and northern Australia. Images: Mean temperature anomaly for June and July 2026. Source: Bureau of Meteorology An early look at the remainder of winter Looking ahead, a few wintry cold fronts in the next week will keep Sydney fairly chilly and breezy, most likely causing the running seasonal-average temperature to drop a little. By mid-August, fronts should become weaker and less frequent, allowing for a few warmer spells to develop in between. Image: Sydney's next 30-day temperature forecast on the Weatherzone app. By the end of this month, Sydney and other parts of eastern and northern Australia are a fair chance to have achieved their warmest winter on record.
07 Aug 2026, 11:44AM UTC
Huge northwest cloudband arrives over Australia ahead of widespread rain
Satellite images captured a large northwest cloudband developing over Australia on Friday, revealing an atmospheric river that will deliver widespread rain across Australia over the weekend and early next week. The animation below uses enhanced water vapour satellite imagery to show tropical moisture extending more than 5,000 km from the Indian Ocean towards South Australia on Friday afternoon. Image: Enhanced water vapour satellite images captured on Friday, August 7, 2026. Source: Weatherzone. While Friday’s cloudband did not deliver too much wet weather, that’s about to change. The cloudband will interact with a cold front to produce widespread rain across a broad area of southern and southeastern Australia this weekend into Monday. Widespread falls of 20 to 40 mm are likely across parts of WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas and the ACT between now and Monday. Some areas in Vic and southern NSW could see 50-100 mm over this period, while parts of SA could receive 30 to 60 mm. Image: Forecast accumulated rain between Friday and Monday. Source: Weatherzone. The rain developing this weekend could cause flooding in some states, most likely in Vic and southern NSW. A flood watch was issued for parts of Vic on Friday and further flood watches and warnings may come out over the weekend. In addition to the rain, this system is also likely to cause damaging winds, snow, hail and thunderstorms across southern and southeastern Australia between Saturday and Monday. Check the latest forecasts and warnings in your area for the most up-to-date information in the coming days.
06 Aug 2026, 5:54AM UTC
Overdue wet spell for Perth and southwest WA
Rain is heading towards the southwest corner of the country, with a procession of cold fronts set to sweep across WA’S South West Land Division in coming days. The spell of persistent showery weather will be welcomed by locals who endured the second-driest July in more than a century of records across the southwest, with some locations like Albany recording their driest July on record. Winter is of course statistically by far the wettest time of year in the southwest, but the rain-bearing systems typical of midwinter were largely absent last month. This week sees a return to what you might call "regular programming". Image: Albany graphs on the Weatherzone app. When is the rain due and how much will fall? The big three rain days for most locations in the coming period are Friday, Saturday and Monday. The BoM has forecast totals in the range of 6 to 20 mm for Perth for Friday, 8 to 20 mm for Saturday, and 6 to 20 mm for Monday. But each day up until next Tuesday has at least the possibility of a shower in the forecast. That includes this Thursday, when some showers may develop in the evening. After a July in which Perth received only 56.8 mm of rainfall – compared to the long-term July average of 147.8 mm – every drop will be welcome, even if the surface is a little soggy when the West Coast Eagles host Collingwood from 2:10 pm (AWST) on Sunday at Perth’s Optus Stadium. Temperature drop to accompany rainfall Image: Forecast 850 hPa temperatures and mean sea level pressure for WA at 8 pm on Saturday, August 8, 2026, illustrating the cold air streaming in from the southwest. Source: Weatherzone. After a mild week with four consecutive days that peaked at 20 degrees or higher (including a very warm 25.3°C on Monday), Perth will cool down substantially by Saturday as the first wave of cold air spreads across the southwest. Saturday's expected Perth maximum of 16°C would be the city’s coldest day in almost two months. Albany, in the state’s South Coastal forecast district, is forecast to reach just 12°C on Saturday, which would be its coldest day of the year to date.