Australia weather: rainy week forecast for Sydney and Brisbane – but BoM says summer isn’t over yet
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Bureau of Meteorology says showers and storms a regular feature of Australian summer, but warm and dry periods still to come. Showers are expected to continue for Sydney and Brisbane throughout much of the coming week, but summer isn’t over yet, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
In fact, senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said showers and storm activity were a regular feature of the Australian summer, especially for northern Australia, as well as south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales. This week, south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales were “tipping towards those wetter conditions”, Bradbury said on Thursday.
“Our seven-day forecast for Sydney, for example, does suggest a chance of showers or even a possible storm pretty much every day. That’s thanks to an inland trough, which is holding moisture over the area and not really going anywhere.”. The bureau’s long-range forecast anticipates a wetter than average season for large parts of eastern, western and northern Australia, with an increased chance of unusually high rainfall.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email. But as weather systems moved through over days and weeks, Bradbury expected there would still be periods of warm and dry conditions to come, “like what we had last weekend in Sydney,” she said.
In contrast, the forecast for areas farther south including Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth was generally sunny and dry, she said. There was a chance of patchy rain “or a couple of rumbles of thunder” in Melbourne and Hobart over the weekend.
