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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.
10 Nov 2025, 8:37AM UTC
Typhoon Fung-Wong crosses Philippines; Taiwan next in line
Typhoon Fung-Wong is expected to track towards Taiwan later this week after barrelling over the Philippines on Sunday night. Heavy rain, destructive winds, powerful waves and a large storm surge battered parts of the Philippines on Sunday and Monday as Super Typhoon Fung-Wong – known as Uwan in the Philippines – passed over Luzon. Fung-Wong was the second super typhoon in seven weeks to strike the Philippines, following Super Typhoon Ragasa (Nando) in late-September. It also comes less than a week after Typhoon Kalmaegi (Tino) crossed the central Philippines, causing more than 200 deaths in the country. Image: Satellite images showing Super Typhoon Fung-Wong crossing the Philippines on Sunday night. Fung-Wong cleared off the west coast of the Philippines on Monday, allowing the system to move away from the hindering friction of land and out over open water, into an environment more favourable for the system to re-intensify. Typhoon Fung-Wong will gain strength over the warm South China Sea on Monday night into Tuesday as it moves towards the north, before eventually making another landfall in Taiwan late on Wednesday or early Thursday. While Fung-Wong should still be classified as a typhoon when it reaches Taiwan later this week, it is expected to weaken before it approaches the country's west coast due to increasingly unfavourable atmospheric conditions. Parts of Taiwan and southeastern China will experience heavy rain and potentially damaging winds between now and Thursday, with official severe weather advisories in place.
10 Nov 2025, 1:40AM UTC
Snow-vember: Yet more Aussie snow coming just three weeks before summer
Yet another late spring cold front is set to coat the highest parts of the Australian high country and elevated parts of Tasmania with snow this Tuesday. The loop below shows the speckled cloud pattern typically associated with a cold airmass with polar origins moving towards Tasmania and the coast of Victoria and southeast SA this Monday. Image: Four-hour combined satellite and radar loop for Tasmania, the tip of SE Australia and nearby waters on the morning of Monday, November 10, 2025. The cold, moist airmass will deliver Melbourne another frigid showery day on Tuesday with a high of just 14°C expected with apparent or "feels like" temperatures hovering around just 6 to 8 degrees for much of the day. The unseasonably cold day Tuesday will arrive a week after the bleak Melbourne Cup Day public holiday, and just three days after Saturday's maximum of 12.7°C – which was Melbourne’s coldest November day in 80 years, as snow coated the ski resorts of Victoria and southern NSW for the second time in a week. Adelaide won’t feel the worst of the chill this week but will still be cool for this time of year with maximums around 19°C on both Monday and Tuesday (the November average maximum is 24.5°C). Hobart can expect a miserable Tuesday. While the official maximum could reach 14°C, strong southwesterly winds and persistent showers will ensure a "feels like" temperature close to 5 degrees for most of the day, with snow falling on kunanyi/Mt Wellington to levels as low as 400 metres above sea level. In other words, the uppermost streets in Hobart’s highest suburbs could see snowflakes this Tuesday. Why so many cold outbreaks just a few weeks before summer? Cold fronts that bring snow to elevated terrain are part of the typical spring weather mix in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. That said, it’s unusual to see back-to-back cold systems surging so far north this late in the season. Image: Mt Hotham on Sunday, November 9, after the cold air that chilled Melbourne hit the Victorian High Country. Two main factors are at play. The first is the recent negative phase of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), which tends to push Southern Ocean cold fronts further north than usual. The recent negative SAM is linked to the sudden stratospheric warming event that occurred over Antarctica in September, which you can read about here. READ MORE: What is the SAM? There’s also another factor fuelling the repeated bursts of wintry weather in Tasmania and the southeastern mainland. In short, it’s nodes of cold air. While a negative phase of the SAM tends to push the large-scale atmospheric circulation in the Southern Ocean closer to Australia, that circulation contains a wavy pattern of relatively warm and cold nodes. In recent weeks, the cold nodes have been peaking in the perfect longitudinal neighbourhood to bring a chill to the southeast. As another of those cold nodes arrives this Tuesday, we’ll bring you the latest on how low the snowflakes fall in Tasmania and the mainland here on the Weatherzone news feed. It’s also worth noting that there will be no significant heat rebound this week, as there was in Victoria last week, when many locations topped 30°C in the period between the Melbourne Cup Day cold snap and the weekend chill. Instead, this week will see only a very gradual warming across Tasmania and the southeastern mainland, with chilly minimums (Canberra could see frost on Wednesday morning with a minimum of 0°C expected) and no significant outbreak of heat on the immediate horizon.