Up here in Europe, the last long (months long) stretches of extreme weather during our winter and also our summer were explained with a slowing down of the arctic jet stream and its growing "amplitude". which make low and high pressure systems hover locked in for longer than in the past.
Does the weather channel give any explanation for that long-ish stretch of the assumably low pressure system over Sydney?
Here's a cloud forecast website for the Eastern Hemisphere which gives an overview on where clouds form downunder for the next week.
http://www.myweather2.com/forecastcl...yer.aspx?fc=47
Here's the more detailed one for Australia and NZ alone:
http://www.myweather2.com/forecastcl...yer.aspx?fc=12
You can either play the whole thingy. Or, that's what I do, drag your cursor slowly along the timeline on the top to see the development of cloud formation.
For my area in Northern Germany, the forecast is almost always astonishingly accurate. I don't know how their forecast accuracy plays out over Australia.