The Bureau of Meteorology constantly monitors all of its radars to detect thunderstorms. Severe Thunderstorm Warnings will be issued if the storms are expected to produce any of the following: ...

Hail forms when updrafts in a thunderstorm carry rain droplets into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere, causing them to freeze. If the updraft is strong enough, the hailstones can grow larger ...

Lightning is the electrical discharge produced when voltage differences between the ground and a part of the storm (or between two separate regions of the storm) are large enough (several hundred ...

No thunderstorms or significant convection expected during this period. Fujita F1 - i.e. wind speeds greater than 116km/h (63 knots) or stronger. Note: some tornadic systems such as funnel clouds, ...

The Victorian government’s VicEmergency app and website forecasts thunderstorm asthma risk over a rolling three-day period, with different colours marking out different levels of risk.

As forecast, the storm hit the region just after 2 p.m., soaking the area with heavy rain. According to weather radar, the storm came through from the southwest, and has since moved towards the ...

It’s 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning at Denton’s Community Market. Visitors shop for vegetables, bread, cosmetics, pasta, canned ...

The thunderstorm asthma season has begun in Victoria. Authorities warn this season could be worse than previous springs due to dry winter conditions and forecast rain until December. Victorians ...

[2024/09] Co-STORM codebase is now released and integrated into knowledge-storm python package v1.0.0. Run pip install knowledge-storm --upgrade to check it out. [2024/09] We introduce collaborative ...

Victorian authorities are warning of statewide thunderstorms on Friday with impacts such as flash flooding, large hail and damaging winds. People prone to asthma and hayfever are being urged to ...