Extended period of little or no precipitation
Storm type
drought
Extended period of little or no precipitation
Two unusual weather events for Australia – Rain event and a dust storm 26 to 28 May 2025
1 Jun 2025 · Australia
The Los Angeles fires – A catastrophe with over 12,000 buildings and homes damaged or destroyed – January 7 to 14 2025
18 Jan 2025 · Los Angeles, CA
Potential significant rain event 25 to 27 September 2024 – Southern Australia
20 Sep 2024 · Southern Australia
Major fire devastates Lahaina Maui – Hawaii – Strong winds, drought and Hurricane Dora plays a role – August 7 to 9 2023
11 Aug 2023 · Wailuku, Maui, HI, US
Heavy rain showers provide relief from worsening drought – Tana Toraja (Sulawesi Indonesia) – July 2023
9 Aug 2023 · Rantepao, Sulawesi, ID
Winter storms and snowfall eases years of drought for California – February and March 2023
12 Mar 2023 · Mountains north of Los Angeles, CA, US
Drought declared in England as hot weather continues – August 2022
14 Aug 2022 · England, GB
Maximum temperatures top 40C for the first time in England – Tuesday 19 July 2022
23 Jul 2022 · England, GB
Rain and storms continues into new year 1-3 January 2021
3 Jan 2021 · NSW rain and storms (Parkes)
Images January 2020 Bushfires west of Sydney
15 Nov 2020 · Warragamba, NSW
Frost and drought – -4.3C this morning at Richmond NSW – we are not far away
1 Sep 2020 · Richmond, NSW
Dust storm number two for 2020 in Sydney
More dust has begun to pass over this…
23 Jan 2020 · Sydney, NSW
Pyrocumulus Time-Lapse of the Green Wattle Fire 4th January 2020 during record heat wave conditions
11 Jan 2020 · Buxton, NSW
Spectacular Flash Flood of a dry river bed So dry across most of Australia but …
8 Jan 2020
How a 24-DAY heatwave in January 1896 saw temperatures hit 49 degrees
8 Jan 2020
First Cumulus developing from a fire Pyrocumulus near Glenmore Park
7 Jan 2020 · Glenmore Park, NSW
I simply had to do it – it’s slowly frying away. My feet are burning and the pho…
4 Jan 2020 · Penrith, NSW
Video of Ferocious and Scary Fires
4 Jan 2020
Record high temperature at Penrith 48.9C 4th January 2020
4 Jan 2020 · Penrith, NSW
Beautiful display from mother nature this evening and even had a couple of drops…
2 Jan 2020
Firefighter died after winds lifted 10-tonne truck off the ground in ‘freakish weather event 31st December 2019
31 Dec 2019 · Jingellic, NSW
Big fire day unfortunately – and it seems a high temperature day with low humidity 31st December 2019
31 Dec 2019 · Penrith, NSW
Interesting to see how shallow the moisture is or trajectory of the drier air 30th December 2019
30 Dec 2019 · Penrith, NSW
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