Seasonal Weather In Australia

Eli packed his gear. He was done for the year. He had traversed the continent, chasing the seasons.

September brought the winds.

Offers clear blue skies, warm days (averaging 30°C/86°F), and cool nights. This is the peak tourist season for the Northern Territory and Tropical North Queensland. Australia's seasons seasonal weather in australia

Severe thunderstorms, hail, damaging winds; spring is also a secondary bushfire season in some southern areas after winter growth dries out.

In the Australian Alps, the snow had fallen. People often forgot that Australia had snow, assuming it was all desert and reef. But in the high country of Victoria and New South Wales, the landscape turned white and silent. Eli photographed brumbies—wild horses—trudging through the snow drifts, their breath misting in the freezing air. Eli packed his gear

There was no single "Australian weather." To live here was to accept that the continent had multiple personalities. It could kill you with heat, drown you in flood, or freeze you in snow, sometimes all in the span of a single week.

Eli photographed the storm, capturing the way the lightning turned the red rocks of the MacDonnell Ranges into jagged silhouettes. This was the Australian Summer: a violent pendulum swinging between dehydration and drowning. September brought the winds

Then, the radio crackled. A weather warning from the Bureau of Meteorology.