Bellingen Weather News
Hot
We’ve had a wet spell recently but that’s now clearing away. What we’ve got coming up is a drier spell across much of south-eastern Aus, and a cyclone likely to cross the WA coast and make it’s way inland. That’s important because cyclones have a lot of hot wet air rising inside the circulation. A […]
Rain
A few days since a post…and a time of year where the weather can get a little more interesting. It’s been pretty dry recently – but luckily for us not as dry as it has been down in Victoria where they’ve seen numerous fires exhibiting extreme behaviour, with pyro-cumulonimbus seen on several fires. Such extreme […]
Rain
Welcome to 2026! Hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. I’ll kick off with an apology to anyone who went to Woodford expecting a flood. The previous posts talked about a significant upcoming flood event in Queensland – but it’s a huge state and this one was expected to focus further north, as […]
Hot
A quick post flagging some incoming heat. We’ve got a trough moving slowly towards us. As is usual at this time of year the trough will drag in some heat from inland as it approaches…but this time around the trough is going to slow down before reaching us, keeping that heat overhead for a number […]
Long Term
We’ve had some big bushfires down south of us over the last few weeks – and sure enough if we look at the 3 month rain anomalies we can see that there’s been some really dry weather down that way: Chatting with a regional farmer (inland from Port Mac) today and they reckoned it’s been […]
Storms
Wow, was a hot one today, glad to get that out of the way! The good news is that we have a change coming through tomorrow…and that change has a higher chance of producing storms than they saw down south this afternoon. A big reason for that is because the uppers are going to look […]