Weather blog: the weather in Australia

These articles are written by hand by Julia, the weather-au.com editorial team. Every figure comes from a public series cited at the end of the article, with the period used; the forecasts on the place pages, by contrast, are computed automatically.

• Ten years of Australian weather, year by yearFrom the dry, hot 2019 to three wet years and a very warm 2024: what ERA5 says about rain and temperature in six Australian cities, 2016 to 2025. · 23 October 2026
• Darwin: the Wet and the DryTwo seasons, not four. Month by month, ten wet seasons of ERA5 data for Darwin, set beside Cairns and Broome, and what the build-up and the dry mean for visitors. · 23 October 2026
• Fire-season weather: what ten summers of data showHeat, wind and dry spells counted for six Australian cities over ten summers. It measures the weather ingredients of bad fire days, not fires. · 23 October 2026
• Canberra frosts and the cold southCanberra counts 16 to 51 frosts a year while Melbourne and Hobart almost none. Ten years of nights, plus the desert nights of Alice Springs. · 23 October 2026
• Melbourne's four seasons in a day, testedTen years of daily ERA5 data put Melbourne's famous changeability to four tests against six other cities. Two pass, one fails, one is not what you think. · 23 October 2026
• Summer heat counted: Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, SydneyDays at 35 °C, runs of three hot days and the hottest day of ten summers in Australian cities: Perth bakes for weeks, Sydney has single hot days. · 23 October 2026
• The Australian sun in numbers: height, hours, UVHow high the midday sun stands in ten Australian cities, how many hours of sun each gets, and why a cool spring day in Hobart can burn like a hot one. · 23 October 2026
• When to visit Australia, region by regionMonth-by-month normals for the tropics, the red centre, Tasmania and the big southern cities, and what they say about the best months in each. · 23 October 2026

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