Climate outlooks & monitoring

Climate of the 2018–19 financial year

Drier than average over much of Australia, leading to an intensification of drought conditions especially in the northern half of the Murray-Darling Basin. Second-warmest financial year on record created additional water stress for many areas. Read more...

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Rainfall and temperature outlooks

Northern rainfall totals since 1 SeptemberNorthern Rainfall Onset outlook

Tropical outlooks and monitoring

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Videos, presentations, links


Latest Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly mapLatest Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly map

Oceans

Latest model outlooksLatest Bureau Pacific SST outlook graph

Climate model forecasts

 Map showing Pacific Ocean warming and Trade Wind direction About El Niño and La Niña
Rainfall ranges: Compare current rainfall with the historical rangeRainfall range graphs

Rainfall ranges

Map of average rainfall in El Niño yearsAbout El Niño and La Niño rainfall patterns

Rainfall patterns (ENSO)

Map of average rainfall in negative IOD yearsAbout Indian Ocean Dipole events and impacts

Rainfall patterns (IOD)

Understand climate influences and outlooks

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About the outlooks

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    Information collection 'About the climate outlooks', including videos, maps, text and links.
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Videos

Interpreting climate outlooks

  • Animations, videos, case studies and quizzes about the Bureau's Climate Outlook service. Registration free, via COMET-MetEd

Map showing key Australian Climate InfluencesClimate Influences of Australia

Influences on Australian climate

Screen capture from Climate Dogs videoClimate Influences of Australia

Influences – Climate Dogs

Climate Influences of Australia, PDF graphical summaries

Climate influences – infographics

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