Bellingen Weather News
Long Term
As we pass through the shortest day we’re now into a time of year when the sun strengthens every day for the next 6 months. It might not feel like it (with a record warm June to date) but the sun is currently as weak as it gets for us. While all this is going […]
General
Massive El Nino incoming – so why so wet? I’ve been asked this a few times this week and to answer it it pays to look at where we are now, as opposed to where we are heading…. Chance always plays a role in what weather we’ll likely be seeing, but the odds one way […]
Long Term
A few showers to come but no huge totals looking likely in the short term. Of much more interest – the latest monthly seasonal forecasts are now out – and they are all showing a very strong to record breaking El Nino developing later this winter. Ocean temperatures in the key Nino 3.4 region are […]
General
A quick post to acknowledge just how wet is has been recently. No huge rain totals but day after day (and week after week) of cloudy weather and showers. To highlight how consistent the showers have been here’s the daily rain totals for Bellingen over the last month: The good news – we’ve finally got […]
General
We’ve got some exciting weather incoming up high. Several pools of very cold air are likely to move across SE Aus over the coming two weeks…and as that upper cold air hits the warm wet air sitting just above a warmer than average Tasman Sea we’ll see strong instability develop. That means a likely east […]
Rain
Anyone else over the rain? Totals have not yet been too high but a little rain over numerous days can still create a heap of mud – as anyone at the awesome Riversounds event at the showground can attest! The showers, while persistent, haven’t given us huge daily totals – and a change (finally) moving […]