Ski resorts gearing up for massive snow dump on Friday

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Ben Meeuwissen and Anastasia Bradshaw 
test out the ice rink in Civic.

Katie Burgess 8:42 PM   A severe cold snap is expected to dump up to up to 60 centimetres of snow at the mountain resorts south of Canberra over the coming days.

Wild weather puts wind up district's sheep farmers

Sheep in the rain.

John Thistleton   Alert out for lambs and hungry sheep as more rain to come with wind.

Sydney welcomes Winter Solstice

Pagans with lit candles gather at Observatory Hill to wait for Winter Solstice in June 2014.

Georgina Mitchell   The southern hemisphere will have its shortest day of the year on Tuesday, with almost 10 hours of sunlight and 14 hours of night.

Canberra weather: Snow expected when rain clears

Emergency services warned motorists to drive to the conditions when the predicted wet weather arrived.

Clare Colley   The rainy weather may have forced most Canberrans to spend the weekend indoors, but when the clouds clear snow-seekers can look forward to the first big snowfalls of the season thanks to a cool change expected later in the week.

A wet Sunday as flood warnings issued for NSW

The storm caused chaos both online and offline during the last June downpour.

Kate Aubusson, Emma Partridge   Sydney's Sunday will remain soggy for most of the day with parts of the city expected to cop up to 50 millimetres of rain.

Sydney weather: Batten down the hatches: second storm on its way

Sydney is expected to cop heavy rain this weekend.

Peter Hannam   Emergency crews expect to be on standby until at least Monday as another east coast low is forecast to bring heavy rain and possible flooding to parts of New South Wales.

Counting the cost major storm events before they happen

Works at Collaroy beach earlier this month to shore up the collapsed foreshore after the recent east coast low.

Peter Hannam   As coastal councils brace for another hammering of their beaches over the weekend, new research methods are emerging that could help local communities assess the threats from beach erosion.

'Increased chance of flooding' as rainy weekend predicted

With the soil and catchment saturated from the last weather event, there will be an increased chances of flooding this ...

Clare Colley   Showers on Friday were just a preview for even wetter weather Canberra can expect over the weekend.

Major flooding events 'on the increase'

Bureau of Meteorology researchers have detected a significant increase in major flood events along the eastern ...

Peter Hannam   New research published as eastern Australia braces for second east coast low in as many weeks.

'The hairiest question' to ask

Warragamba Dam, Sydney's main catchment, last spilled over in August 2015 - and may again on Monday.

Peter Hannam   Sydney's major dams may spill next week if a forecast storm brings even moderate rainfall to the area.

'Potential for more severe weather'

Coogee Surf Life Saving Club staff survey the damage after the big storm earlier this month.

Peter Hannam   Residents across an arc of eastern Australia stretching from Queensland to Tasmania should be on watch for more potentially severe weather this weekend as another winter storm loom, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Queensland set for another drenching

Parts of Queensland are in for a  drenching.

Forecasters say southern Queensland will cop another drenching.

Flooding and beach erosion possible as another storm looms

Collaroy's beach front houses were among those hardest hit from the early June event.

Peter Hannam   NSW may be in for another winter storm bringing heavy rain and a coastal storm surge with another east coast low projected to form off the coast.

Canberra colder than Thredbo on Monday morning

Overnight temperatures are tipped to remain low for much of the week.

Katie Burgess   Thredbo top station had nothing on Canberra on Monday morning.

"These are the signs that make you cross your fingers": Bumper snowfall may be just over horizon

Snow no-show: There's been a steady decline in accumulated snowfall depths from 1954-2014.

Inga Ting   The 2016 winter is likely to bring two of the three weather patterns which, in combination, create the ideal conditions for a bumper snow season, climate experts say.

Collaroy residents happy to pay for seawall

Tony Cagorski says he and his neighbours are happy to chip in for the construction of a seawall.

​A man whose million-dollar beachfront property on Sydney's northern beaches was damaged by king tides says he and his neighbours are happy to chip in for the construction of a seawall.

Trees cocooned in webs as spiders take refuge in flood-hit Tasmania

The spiders have thrown silk snag lines into the air to haul themselves out of the water in Westbury, Tasmania.

Megan Levy   It's an arachnophobic's worst nightmare. As the flood emergency continues to grip parts of Tasmania, millions of tiny spiders have evacuated their waterlogged nests and burrows and taken refuge in the trees in the town of Westbury, near Launceston.

Collaroy seawall delayed by funding row

High tide at Collaroy where people's properties have been damaged by the storm. 7th June 2016 Photo: Janie Barrett

Daisy Dumas, Nick Ralston and Ava Benny-Morrison   Volunteers are racing against the clock to shore up vulnerable beachfront homes in Sydney's north ahead of the arrival of another king tide on Tuesday night.

Damaging winds in ACT alpine areas on Thursday

Damaging winds are predicted in parts of the ACT on Thursday.

Higher parts of ACT could receive wind gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour on Thursday, meteorologists have warned.

Collaroy Beach before and after photos

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Collaroy Beach has lost 50m of sand following the massive storms and king tides that hit Sydney over the weekend.

Sydney storm: erosion swallows 50 metres of Collaroy, Narrabeen beaches

A Collaroy local surveys the damage to The Collaroy Beach Hotel on Tuesday.

Megan Levy, Ava Benny-Morrison, Daisy Dumas   Huge waves and king tides pummelling the NSW coast have eroded away about 50 metres of Narrabeen and Collaroy beaches, where a number of badly damaged waterfront properties remain at risk of toppling into the sea, an expert says.

Sydney starts to count storm chaos costs

Bondi Beach before the clean-up began.

Nick Ralston, Rachel Olding, Ava Benny-Morrison, Megan Levy   At least three people are dead, buildings on Sydney's east coast are on the brink of collapse and parts of the city's south-west still submerged in water as the destruction from a weekend of wild storms and huge seas became evident on Monday.

Battered Sydney recovers after extreme weather

Sydney storm

Esther Han, Rachel Olding, Georgina Mitchell   Sydney is recovering after a weekend being battered by a major storm fuelled by an east coast low pressure system.

Wild weather claims several lives in NSW and ACT

The driver of the twin cab four wheel drive vehicle died when it was swept away in Paddy's river.

Rachel Olding   Wild weather across the country has claimed three lives following three incidents of cars being swept away in flood waters.

Sydney storm: Motorists die in floodwaters, coastline eroded

Image taken on Sunday morning shows widespread erosion at Narrabeen.

Three motorists have died in the floodwaters following the NSW storms.

Lake George holds water for the first time in several years

Lake George filling up on Sunday afternoon.

Katie Burgess   As quick as Lake George started to hold water due to rain lashing the region, the water subsided.

Homes teeter on the edge in Collaroy as coastline washed away

Image taken on Sunday morning shows widespread erosion at Narrabeen.

Ava Benny-Morrison, Nick Ralston   Homes on Sydney's northern beaches have been partially washed away in the violent storms that battered the NSW coastline over the weekend.

Sydney storms: Narrabeen-Collaroy beach lashed by large seas

Coogee's surf lifesaving clubhouse suffered extensive damage.

Louise Hall   The intense storm lashing the NSW coast appears to have caused significant erosion at Narrabeen-Collaroy beach on Sydney's northern beaches.

There's plenty more rain to come in Canberra

A car passes through water flooded road on London Circuit in Canberra on Sunday morning.

Natasha Boddy   Canberra received a month's worth of rain in a day over the weekend, but escaped the worst of the region's wild weather.

Sydney wipeout: Residents evacuated, coastlines eroded as wild storms hit NSW

Image taken on Sunday morning shows widespread erosion at Narrabeen.

Louise Hall, Michael Evans   Residents were being evacuated from low-lying areas around Sydney on Sunday night and huge seas were threatening to engulf coastal homes as wild storms battered the state for a second day.