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An broad area of instability is generating storms across much of WA, western SA and western NT. Easterlies feeding instability over north and central Qld also brings some showers and storms, mainly inland. Showers over Tas in a westerly airstream between cold fronts.
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Today, 6:12AM UTC
Australia on 'Aurora Alert' with severe geomagnetic storm in progress
The aurora australis could be visible from large areas of Australia on Wednesday night into Thursday morning as a severe geomagnetic storm disrupts Earth’s magnetic field. The Bureau of Meteorology’s Space Weather Service (SWS)issued an ‘aurora alert’ on Wednesday afternoon, an advisory that only gets issued when space weather activity that is favourable for viewing aurora is currently in progress. The aurora alert stated: “Severe geomagnetic storm in progress. Aurora may be observed during local nighttime hours in good observing conditions at regions as far equatorward as middle latitudes.” The geomagnetic storm that is expected to cause Wednesday night’s aurora australis was caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun earlier this week. While it’s difficult to anticipate the impact a CME will have on Earth ahead of time, the influence of this event has already started to occur, and it is causing a severe geomagnetic storm. Image: Aurora australis seen from Inverloch, Vic in 2024. Source: @tompasco / Instagram. The strength of a geomagnetic storm is measured using the G-scale, which goes from G1 to G5, with G5 being the strongest level on the scale. According to the Bureau’s SWS, a G4 storm was underway on Wednesday afternoon and conditions could reach G5 strength on Wednesday night. G4 geomagnetic storms are capable of causing the aurora to become visible in central NSW. The SWS says that under G4 conditions, “bright auroras will be visible at unusually low latitudes, including dark-sky locations near Sydney and Perth.” If G5 conditions occur on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, the aurora could even become visible in parts of Qld and the NT. Fortunately for Australian aurora hunters, a high pressure system will keep skies clear over large parts of the country on Wednesday night. You can find more information about space weather and the aurora australis on the Bureau’s SWS website.
Today, 12:27AM UTC
Coldest November morning on record for parts of SE Australia
Unseasonably cold temperatures sent shivers across southeastern Australia on Wednesday morning, with Canberra one of many places that registered their coldest November morning on record. A frigid air mass lingering in the wake of a cold front combined with relatively light winds and clear skies on Tuesday night to send temperatures plummeting across southeastern Australia. Image: Satellite images showing the cold front pushing north along Australia’s east coast on Wednesday morning. By the early hours of Wednesday, temperatures had plunged around 10 to 12°C below average for a November morning, with parts of Vic, NSW, the ACT and SA registering their lowest November temperatures on record. Image: Modelled temperature anomaly over Australia at 5am AEDT on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. The darker blue and pink shading over southeastern Australia shows that temperatures were about 6 to 12°C below average for this time of year. Source: TropicalTidbits.com Canberra’s minimum of -2.3°C early on Wednesday was about 12°C below average and the city’s lowest November temperature on record, beating its previous November record of -1.8°C from 1967. This was cold enough for frost to form. Wednesday morning’s wintry chill also produced new November daily minimum temperature records in: Orange, NSW: -2.0°C (previous record -1.7°C) Mudgee, NSW: -0.1°C (previous record 0.2°C) Wangaratta, Vic: -1.3°C (previous record 0.1°C) Renmark, SA: 1.9°C (previous record 2.3°C) Mildura also had its coldest November morning since 1912 after the mercury dipped to 1.6°C shortly before 7am on Wednesday. Looking ahead, a series of cold fronts will continue to bring periods of abnormally cold weather in parts of southern and southeastern Australia over the coming week. These fronts will help prevent any extreme late-spring heat in the country’s south through the middle of November.
10 Nov 2025, 11:41PM UTC
Late-spring chill spreading across southeastern Australia
A cold Southern Ocean air mass is spreading across southeastern Australia, with Melbourne’s temperature feeling like 5°C on Tuesday morning and Sydney next in line to feel the late-spring chill. A bend in the polar jet stream is allowing a large pool of cold Southern Ocean air to sweep across southeastern Australia this week. This cold air mass is causing temperatures to plummet in several states and territories, while also producing a wintry mix of cloud, rain, snow and small hail. Image: Jet stream winds (roughly 9-10km above sea level) over the Australian region on Tuesday afternoon, showing the polar jet bending over southeastern Australia. Melbourne’s temperature has been frigid throughout Tuesday morning. While the city’s official temperature had reached 9°C by 9am, it has felt more like 5 to 7°C thanks to chilly winds, with cloud and rain exacerbating the cold start to the day. Tasmanians have endured a similarly cold start to Tuesday, with Hobart’s temperature only feeling like 4.5°C at 8am. Snow is forecast to reach down to about 400 metres above sea level in parts of Tas on Tuesday, while some parts of the state will also see small hail amid wintry showers and thunderstorms. The cold air will continue to spread further north and east on Tuesday, reaching the ACT in the early afternoon and arriving in the Sydney region around 6 to 8pm. This northward progression of the cold air will also cause rain and highland snow to spread into parts of northern Vic, NSW and the ACT. Sydneysiders will notice an abrupt temperature change when southerly winds sweep up the coast on Tuesday evening, particularly in the city’s eastern suburbs. While Tuesday is forecast to reach 28°C in the city, it will feel more like 10 to 12°C in the evening evening after the change has passed through. Image: Hourly temperature and wind forecasts for Sydney on the Weatherzone app. Another hazard associated with this system will be a brief period of Extreme fire danger in the Greater Hunter and Upper Central West Plains districts in NSW on Tuesday. This spike in fire danger will be caused by a surge of warn and dry winds ahead of the approaching cold air mass. Image: Forecast fire danger ratings and total fire bans on Tuesday. Warnings for sheep graziers are also in place for parts of Vic, Tas, NSW and the ACT on Tuesday, while Tasmania’s low-level snow potential has prompted a Road Weather Alert and Bush Walkers Weather Alert in parts of the state.