Many Aussies are in for another chilly weekend as a cold front sends temperatures plunging, with damaging winds and showers forecast. An Antarctic air mass is tracking towards south-east Australia, bringing chilly and damp conditions to widespread areas. The system is predicted to link up with a north-west cloud bandContinue Reading
An “active monsoon” battering large swathes of Australia’s north has dumped as much as 200mm of rain and raised fears of flooding, with more wild weather on the way. The monsoon trough extending from the Northern Territory to Queensland’s Torres Strait is expected to continue to develop on Tuesday asContinue Reading
Parts of Australia will be bracing for a very hot long weekend, with extreme fire dangers for many in the southeast. Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said a heatwave warning had been issued for Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia as each state entered their respective public holiday long weekend.Continue Reading
A sweltering weekend heatwave that’s set to push temperatures to 41C has caused the cancellation of a horseracing event, as organisers fear for the safety of the animals and their jockeys. A widespread heatwave that consumed much of northern and central WA earlier this week has since migrated south. It’sContinue Reading
Some of the same communities that battled raging fires just 48 hours ago have been told they may be cut off by major floods, as heavy rain continues to fall. Eastern Victoria received its initial flood watch warning on Tuesday, just hours after hot and windy conditions fuelled bushfires inContinue Reading
A powerful cold front sweeping across southeastern Australia could lead to thousands of homes being battered by heavy winds and showers amid warnings that more wild weather lays ahead. The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe weather warnings for damaging winds for parts of Victoria and Tasmania on Thursday, as theContinue Reading
A 3000-kilometre rain band is forecast to engulf Australia next week, stretching from the Pilbara and Kimberly, across the outback and to the eastern seaboard, bringing with it soaking rains. The upcoming drenching follows a week of above-average rain and below-average temperatures in the southern states. Rain fell across theContinue Reading
Yet more rain and snow is expected in Australia in the next 24 hours, with parts of the country set to be blanketed as freezing weather persists. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, rain is forecast to continue to fall across SA and parts of east Australia, courtesy of aContinue Reading
Australia’s cold change is only getting frostier, with millions set to shiver through the coldest June morning in five years as one capital city plummets to -5 degrees. Sky news meteorologist Alison Osborne warned on Monday Aussies were in for “another dramatic week of June weather” with “extreme cold” forecastContinue Reading
Aussies will be familiar with the sister climate drivers La Nina and El Nino, the former of which brought intense rainfall and record-breaking floods for three unrelenting years. Soon set to make its mark, however, is a third climate system which could see blue skies a plenty but also freezingContinue Reading