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Unusually high sea surface temperatures off the East Coast of Australia appear to have swamped the anticipated West Pacific drought promoting effects of the 2023-24 El Nino.

It's autumn in Australia, but you might not be able to tell from the weather. Record-breaking heat has gripped large swaths of the country — the government's Bureau of Meteorology said Sydney, Adelaide, and other locations...

Energy From The Daily Caller Chris White 9:57 PM 07/31/2017 Australian scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) ordered a review of temperature recording instruments after the government agency was caught tampering with...

I’m surprised they didn’t warn of an ‘angry summer’ (© The Climate Council). Actually it wasn’t angry at all. It wasn’t even slightly miffed. The crystal-ball-gazing of the Bureau has...

The ABC/Fairfax media axis has been hard at work plugging the “hottest year on record” meme, my response to which is, so what? The planet has been warming slowly since the Little Ice Age, and so it is hardly surprising......

The ABC/Fairfax media axis has been hard at work plugging the “hottest year on record” meme, my response to which is, so what? The planet has been warming slowly since the Little Ice Age, and so it is hardly surprising......

Guest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Our taxpayer funded broadcaster here in Oz, the ABC, has recently aired a scary story in its “science” TV show Catalyst, entitled Climate Extremes...

Guest essay by Ed Thurstan Abstract The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a new temperature dataset – the “Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature“ (ACORN-SAT) in...

From the University of Melbourne, where being angry about “weather is not climate” isn’t just a science, its a way of life: Human influences through global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia’s...

Mean and reported “Mean” temperatures and the consequences of the difference Guest essay by Tom Quirk The convention in meteorology is to report mean temperatures as the average of minimum and maximum temperatures...

Story submitted by Eric Worrall At least one Australian is not unhappy at the country’s recent hot spell. The following is a picture of something I pulled off a private part of my anatomy earlier this year. Yes, it’s...

The Bureau of Meteorology has just released its latest seasonal outlooks, and it is projecting a very high chance of a warmer than normal late Winter and early Spring over much of Australia: The national outlook averaged...

While the Waragamba dam overflows in NSW, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports… ‘Unprecedented amount of rain’: flood evacuations after Sydney dam spills …and many Australians wonder just what the...

On Jo Nova’s site, the cat is set amongst the pigeons: A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM...

In our previous post, we highlighted the BoM weather station on Willis Island, and wondered what would happen to it and to the staff who worked there. Fortunately the staff has been evacuated prior to Yasi hitting the island....