The Weather Guru podcast - with Justin Noonan

Channel 10 Climate Specialist & Meteorologist Josh Holt joins the podcast for this exciting two-part episode. Josh helps break down the climate drivers across Australia, including ECSO, IOD, SAM, Rossby Waves, the MJO and how they affect the mainland. We also delve into climate change and what it means moving forward with ocean temperatures on the increase, and the impacts that we can expect to see. We also discuss a little-known driver that impacts other parts of the globe. Throw in some sports and weather stories too!

I chat with South East Queensland storm chaser Daniel Saltwell in this two-part episode. We discuss Daniel’s storm-chasing adventures, specific ingredients he looks for when chasing, close calls with severe weather and much more!

Season 3 of The Weather Guru podcast is here! To kick off the third season, well-known aurora and storm chaser David Metcalf joins me to discuss the recent string of incredible auroras across Australia and the world. He’ll answer some burning questions regarding what causes auroras, why their colours appear the way they do, solar flares and many more!

Dr Heather Handley joins the podcast to discuss volcanoes both in Australia and abroad. In part 1 of our chat on Volcanoes, Heather covers the different types of volcanoes, lava flows, and pyroclastic flows. Heather also helps to break down two specific volcanic fields considered active on mainland Australia, including when they last erupted and when they may erupt again.

On this special episode of the Weather Guru podcast, Channel 7 meteorologist Tony Auden joins me to run through the all-important forecasts for both the AFL and NRL Grand Finals. We will check out the weather for the weekend across the other capital cities across Australia too.

On this episode, award winning Channel 9 journalist Peter Fegan joins this show to discuss some of the incredible severe weather events he has documented throughout his career. These range from bushfires, tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms and severe floods, including the horrific Brisbane floods of 2022. Peter also tells us what it is like to be on the other side of a severe weather event, with his parents losing everything during the 2022 flood.

What a joy it was for me to interview Jane Bunn from 7 News Melbourne. In this episode we chat about her fascination for weather, thunderstorm development across Victoria, and just how hard it is to articulate a forecast for Melbourne’s 4 seasons in a day weather.

On this episode of The Weather Guru podcast, I chat to Dr Kimberley Reid about atmospheric rivers. She helps us unlock the mystery and how these rivers transport moisture in the lower troposphere helping to generate rainfall, including extreme rainfall and flooding for Australia.

Welcome to season 2 of The Weather Guru podcast. To kick off season 2, Chris Nitsopoulos joins me in part 1 of this 2-part episode. We discuss how Tropical Cyclones develop, inhibiting factors, the Australian TC scale (how our system differs from the Saffir Simpson Scale), Madden Julian Oscillation, and how it influences TC’s across northern Australia and much more!

On this episode of The Weather Guru podcast, I chat with hail scientist Joshua Soderholm. He explains the fascinating process of how hail forms, the ingredients required for large to giant hail and does green within a thunderstorm mean hail is imminent.

In this week’s two part episode, I chat to lightning expert Mike O’neill about his lightning studies, the danger that lightning possesses and how lightning forms.

This week, 7 News Meteorologist Tony Auden discusses the pressure of on air forecasting, a few big sports events he has had the pleasure to forecast for and the potential for flooding over the coming months.