Bellingen Weather News
Long Term
Sometime since my last post, apologies! Time for a quick update on what’s happening weather wise around our area. It’s been a pretty dry month so far – here’s the current percentages for September: Between 0% and 20% across our region so perhaps not a surprise we’ve had some fires across NE NSW. Here’s the […]
Long Term
We’re at that time of year when the sun starts getting rapidly stronger – and that means hotter spells of weather can start kicking in as changes move through. The good news as we enter fire season? We’ve had some good rain which has knocked back the short term fire risk…but there are other conditions […]
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 […]