{"id":762778,"date":"2026-06-27T01:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762778\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:56:15","slug":"weather-news-multiple-states-set-for-a-drenching-after-dry-winter-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762778\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather news: Multiple states set for a drenching after dry winter start"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a dry start to winter<\/a>, millions of people across the country<\/a> are in for a wet few weeks.<\/p>\n

Weatherzone<\/a> reports that two large rainbands will move over Australia next week, bringing widespread rain to multiple eastern states.<\/p>\n

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A pair of large rainbands will sweep across Australia over the coming week, delivering widespread rain to several states.\u00a0Weatherzone<\/p>\n

The pair of low-pressure systems will move towards Australia\u2019s south next week, bringing moisture-laden air over the country and providing the perfect storm for extra rain.<\/p>\n

The system is forecast to bring showers across half of Australia\u2019s south and along the east coast until next week.<\/p>\n

However, the heaviest rainfall is expected in Australia\u2019s southeast inland, particularly within the Murray-Darling Basin, where rainfall could total 50mm-100mm over the next week.<\/p>\n

It is forecast that the rain will mostly affect a broad area of Victoria<\/a>, NSW<\/a> and Queensland<\/a>\u2019s south-west.<\/p>\n

Despite the looming rain, many forecast models are still predicting below-average rain across Australia this winter due to a strong El Nino in the tropical Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

The El Nino<\/a> weather system means that millions of Australians are in for a warmer, drier winter and spring.<\/p>\n

The changing conditions could spark earlier bushfires and heatwaves, while threatening water storage, farming yields, and snow depths.<\/p>\n

Australians are being warned to brace for a potentially powerful climate cycle, with forecasters tracking an event likely to stick around well into the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n

While it does not guarantee drought or extreme\u00a0weather<\/a>, the disruptive weather pattern can increase the odds of those conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a dry start to winter, millions of people across the country are in for a wet few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-762778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}