A sudden stratospheric warming event over the Antarctic this week is expected to bring a chaotic spring to Australia’s south and a drier than average season to the nation’s east.
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In the Antarctic winter, this upper atmosphere normally stays near –55°C, held by strong polar winds and the absence of ...
The stratospheric polar vortex high above Antarctica has rapidly heated up. These sudden bursts of heat can bring rapid weather changes in Australia ...
Weather forecasters’ outlook for a soggy spring is being rewritten by a rare, sudden temperature spike high above Antarctica that could end the run of unusually wet weather on the eastern seaboard.
At the end of September, cold air at high altitudes above Antarctica had soared to more than 60 degrees above normal. It is a ...
Millions of Aussies are in the firing line for a chaotic summer - amid forecasts of soaring temperatures, heightened flood ...
Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere ...