Tyne Logan

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Tyne Logan

Australia's weather will be firing on all cylinders this Easter long weekend, with a cyclone in the north, powerful swell in the east and a swing from hot to cool in the south. The good news is, much of the country will have at least some "really nice" weather during the break, according to Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Angus Hines. So, let's take a look at what's in store across the country from Friday to Monday.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Tyne Logan

Are extreme rainfall forecasts getting worse? As Queensland again reels after devastating rain and flooding, this time in the outback, the conversation has once again turned to whether or not our forecasts are up to scratch. People in the region say they were expecting a decent amount of rain. But not nearly as much as what ended up happening, with falls equivalent to two years' worth of rain falling on some areas. Just a few weeks ago, Cyclone Alfred triggered a similar situation in Hervey Bay.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Tom Saunders |Tyne Logan

A week before Tropical Cyclone Alfred was nearing the east coast of Australia, most forecasts were favouring a path either well offshore or near the central Queensland coast. There was a curious anomaly though: an AI prediction from Google's DeepMind, called Graphcast, was predicting the centre of Alfred would be just 200 kilometres off the coast of Brisbane.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Tyne Logan |Jo Lauder

Former Sydney Swans player Troy Luff still remembers the green shade of the clouds he witnessed from the Sydney Cricket Ground, just moments before the noise began. It sounded like an avalanche getting closer and closer. Then, out of nowhere, giant clumps of ice the size of cricket balls, some even larger, blasted through roofs and windows and bounced off car bonnets at 200 kilometres per hour.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Tom Saunders |Tyne Logan

Australia's east coast has been pounded by rain, wind and surf for a week, with some of the highest rainfall in decades recorded through southern Queensland, including Brisbane's highest daily rainfall in half a century. Alfred made landfall as ex-Tropical Cyclone at about 8pm on Saturday. It is now pushing inland through southern Queensland, having transformed from a closed low-pressure system with tightly rotating winds into a low-pressure trough.