Bellingen Weather News
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 […]
Long Term - Storms
After a stormy period recent days have seen drier (and much cooler) weather move in. This is mainly due to a stronger negative period for the southern circulation. A negative (weaker) circulation means the winds tend to spread further out from the Antarctic, affecting areas further north and allowing colder air to likewise escape and […]
Storms
The humidity is rolling back in as we head towards summer and we’re well into our storm season. Kicking off with the humidity – and the oceans to our north-east are well above average for the time of year – in fact a good month ahead of themselves. On a practical level that means that […]