Bellingen Weather News
Wind
A quick post about an incoming blast of westerly winds up on the hills as a very strong southern low makes it’s way from west to east to our south. You can see the low moving across over the next 72 hours: That low is going to bring some decent rain (and snow) to our […]
Long Term
It’s that time at the start of a new month where we have a look into what lies ahead over the coming season. As you’ll likely be well aware by now we have three key climate drivers for our region – The Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and the Antarctic Circulation. Looking at each in turn: […]
Long Term
It was a wild, windy and fairly damp weekend. Rain kept mainly to the coast and hills, but everywhere saw a little. 7 day rain totals looked like this: The good news is that the low responsible for the dreary weather has now moved away and the weather is settling down. To get an idea […]
Rain
Some good news – in the post yesterday I mentioned that when there is a big difference between models the most likely outcome is somewhere in the middle…and right now that is how the rain this week looks to be heading. Original (and much shared) forecasts from some of the models looked a little like […]
Rain
We’ve got some great winter weather outside right now. We’ve also got a pool of cold upper air moving up from way down south. With only a few days until it arrives it would be great to have model agreement on what will happen. I’ve been holding out from writing a post until we had […]
Long Term
Writing this down in Newcastle where the alignment of the land means that showers moving swiftly north in the southerly air stream are clattering onshore once again. We’ve still got high pressure areas sitting to the south of Aus, and that is continuing to push showers onto the east coast. Not many making it into […]