The Bureau of Meteorology has released its 2024 Spring Long-Range Forecast with this spring shaping up to be an unusually warm and stormy season for Australia, with some parts of the country also likely to see an increased risk of fires.
Weatherzone’s Ben Domensino says minimum temperatures are expected to be above average across most of Australia this spring, under the influence of the unusually warm sea surface temperatures surrounding Australia and the potential for increased cloud cover late in the season.
Mr Domensino says near average rainfall is forecast across large parts of Australia during the first half of spring, however, wetter-than-average conditions could develop over eastern and northern parts of the country in the second half of spring under the influence of a potential La Niña, warm sea surface temperatures and positive Southern Annular Mode.
He says thunderstorm activity starts to increase in Australia during spring as rising temperatures and increasing atmospheric moisture and instability provide the key ingredients for storm development.
