Millions of Australians are being warned to brace for another wet and wild weekend after Sydney was smashed by almost twice its average June rainfall in just two weeks. The Harbour City reported a whopping 212mm of rain until Friday – against a June monthly average of 132mm – withContinue Reading
Melbourne is set to shiver through its coldest day in five years, with the city shivering through a cold snap. While the Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a high of just 13C for Friday, it will be the city’s coldest day since 2019 if the temperature fails to rise toContinue Reading
By all accounts, I’m at a fairly stock-standard Indonesian beach bar, but there’s something unusual about the scene around me. Coloured bean bags are scattered on the sand, Bintangs are free-flowing, and a cover band is playing all the classics, from Frankie Valli to Bruce Springsteen. It’s a perfect summer’sContinue Reading
Millions of Aussies have been urged to brace for a wet start to 2024, with severe thunderstorms forecast to return from this weekend, including on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Storms are expected to develop across large parts of Australia during the final weekend of 2023, threatening toContinue Reading
Emergency Services Minister Murray Watt said it was “too early” to know the full scale of the damage caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper as communities remain trapped in floodwater in the wake of the disaster. An enormous clean-up is under way in Far North Queensland after the category 2 stormContinue Reading
Christmas is around the corner and if you were hoping for a quintessential Aussie yuletide under blue skies with perhaps some time on the beach or in the backyard – well, bad news beckons: Santa could be bringing rain, colder than average temperatures and overcast conditions. As many as fourContinue Reading
Much of the country is looking at a wet week ahead as parts of Queensland and NSW recover from several days of severe storms. Golf ball-size hailstones bombarded eastern regions of the NSW and Queensland border on Wednesday and Thursday, with a series of thunderstorms expected across the country nextContinue Reading
A week of rain is forecast to drench multiple states, with exhausted fire crews hopeful it will help extinguish bushfires. A string of wet and stormy days are expected to soak parts of NSW and Queensland from this weekend, with up to 10 days of rain in some regions. AContinue Reading
A cold front moving up Australia’s southeast coast has given Tasmania and Victoria a chilly start to the week, as Sydney cops some strong winds. The system intensified overnight Sunday into Monday, bringing wet weather to Tasmania and Victoria, but those showers should ease in the evening as it startsContinue Reading
Australians are about to say goodbye to winter, but warmer spring weather is still a little way off with the first weekend of the new season expected to be cold to mild for most. The bureau is forecasting a warmer and drier spring for much of the country this year,Continue Reading