'Autumn may not start until April'

Peter Hannam   Little sign of a seasonal cooling off as Australia basks in unusually warm and dry weather.

Sydney's heat 'just keeps on coming' with no early sign of cool change

Peter Hannam   Sydney's late-summer spell of unusual warmth shows little sign of making way for autumn with another week of mild to hot weather ahead.

A sweltering summer, a hot March - now get set for a wet Autumn

Liam Mannix   You survived Melbourne's hot summer? Expect Autumn to be wet. But first, we have to get through March, which is looking like a scorcher.

Canberra's summer was a season of highs and lows

Katie Burgess   Canberra's temperatures varied by more than 35 degrees during a warmer, drier summer than average, meteorologists say.

Sydney beaches closed as dangerous surf conditions take hold

Jim Gainsford   The flow-on effects of Fiji's Tropical Cyclone Winston put a dampener on the last weekend of summer, bringing dangerous surfing conditions and closing many Sydney beaches.

'Strangely warm southerly' brings little relief to hot Sydney

Julie Power   A "strangely warm southerly" is sweeping across Sydney today with little relief from the heat at beaches in NSW and Queensland because of Cyclone Winston causing large, dangerous and powerful surf.

Heat sends power demand spiking across Sydney and the rest of NSW

Peter Hannam   Electricity demand surged to its highest in Sydney and the rest of the state for the summer as a burst of inland heat sent the mercury into the low 40s in the city's west.

Essential Energy cuts power to residents in 40°C

Katie Burgess   Residents outraged as hundreds scheduled to lose power in 40 degree heat.

'Not the evening to be opening windows': Sydney to swelter until well past sunset

Peter Hannam   Sydney will likely come close to notching its hottest day this late in the summer for 12 years - and there won't be much early relief.

Coral growth already being affected by acidifying oceans

Peter Hannam   The world's coral reefs are already being weakened by climate change with new research claiming to identify for the first time the effects of more acidic oceans.

Sydney weather: 'a great few days for a dip'

Peter Hannam   Temperatures are set to climb towards 40 degrees in coming days in Sydney's west with only cooling sea breezes likely to cap the mercury in the city.

Sydney's warm February to get a heatwave boost this week

Peter Hannam   Sydney's simmering summer will get a boost this week as a heatwave builds across the country's south-east.

Queensland weather: Big waves to continue this week

Kim Stephens   The Gold Coast will continue to show the rest of Australia why it is the country's surfer's paradise this week, as the last in an unusual trio of consecutive weather events continue to power big swells.

Heatwave ahead for Canberra

Katie Burgess   February is set to go out with a sizzle, meteorologists say.

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Global temperatures leap higher in January, smashing records

Peter Hannam   El Nino assists January to have the biggest increase over the previous record for any month in a more than a century of records

Canberra sizzles as mercury climbs

Natasha Boddy   Canberrans spent much of Valentine's Day looking for ways to cool off and beat the heat as the capital sizzled.

Severe thunderstorm warning issued for the ACT region

Henry Belot   Queanbeyan and southern Canberra have been battered with a severe hail storm.

Benign weather in store for Sydney as big heat builds in the west

Peter Hannam   Sydney could get its best weather for the year, with a week of gently warming days, lots of sunshine and little rain.

Brisbane weather: A (comparatively) cool reprieve on its way

Cameron Atfield   Brisbane's sweaty masses are set for a slight reprieve leading into the weekend, with the high temperatures and sticky humidity both set to become that little more bearable.

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More storms for Sydney after a January 'with everything'

Peter Hannam   Parts of Sydney are copping the odd isolated thunderstorm on Monday afternoon, but the storms are unlikely to reach the severity of the weekend's tempest.

Tornado strikes south of Bungendore as Canberra cops supercell storm

Clare Colley   The trail of destruction left behind suggests the supercell storm that struck Forbes Creek south of Bungendore on Saturday was a tornado, on the same night Canberra had its highest daily rainfall for the month.

Sunny Sunday before thunderstorms roll back in

Lisa Visentin, Michael McGowan   Sydney will be enveloped in glorious summer sunshine on Sunday, with a clear sunny day closing out what has been the wettest January for almost three decades.

Thunderstorms expected to hang around

Stephen Jeffery   The trough that brought a series of storms to Canberra on Saturday is expected to affect the region until Monday.

'Very dangerous' weather: Another storm warning for Sydney

Michael McGowan   The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of Sydney.

Sydney weather: Sunshine on Saturday still to turn to storms by the afternoon

Lucy Cormack   In a characteristically Sydney weather run, expect blue skies and sunshine after yesterday's "Freaky Friday" storm.

Giant hailstones to batter Canberra

Katie Burgess   A broad and unpredictable trough stretching across south-east Australia could inundate Canberra with a month's worth of rain this weekend.

Freaky Friday storm could spell wild weather for Saturday

Phoebe Moloney   Dubbed 'Freaky Friday' by state SES services, severe storms hit Sydney on Friday with widespread impacts on transport, electrical and emergency services.

Thunderstorms, damaging winds hit Sydney region

Peter Hannam and Kate Aubusson   Sydney can expect waves of thunderstorms, some potentially severe, with large hailstones and damaging winds, on Friday afternoon.

Sydney weather: Severe thunderstorms sweep in from the west

Peter Hannam   Waves of thunderstorms have begun to hit Sydney, some of them potentially severe, as a complex low pressure system brings storm activity to much of eastern Australia.