The big story across Eastern Australia over the next couple of weeks is the heat. We’re really going to notice it after the recent cooler spell. Check out the animation. It shows heat anomalies every 6 hours over the next 10 days. You can see how it goes from cooler than normal across Eastern Aus through to quickly a lot warmer / hotter than normal:

Not much rain likely over the next 10 days either – lucky we saw as much as we did over recent days, as many areas to our south missed out. You can see where drought is kicking in with the current Drought Index map from the BoM:

Looking further ahead the models are showing the increasing potential for some rain across our region – the image below shows the week three rainfall anomaly map:

Fingers crossed – I’ll keep posting as we get closer…forecast charts have been showing increased rainfall for some time but then loosing interest as we get closer in.