Weather News
Thursday December 29, 2016
Sydney's hottest year on record
15:21 EDT
Sydney is feeling the heat today as the city nears the end of its hottest year on record.
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How do Australian native animals stay cool in the summer?
15:02 EDT
As , our furry friends will be looking for a shady place to stay cool, just as we do.
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Victoria weather: BOM forecasts heavy rain and storms across state after hot night in Melbourne
14:44 EDT
Heavy rain and storms are forecast for Victoria today after a sweltering night in Melbourne, with the authorities issuing a warning about flash flooding.
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SA storms: Thousands still without power as businesses suffer losses in blackout
14:34 EDT
Tens of thousands of South Australian properties remain without power after a day of wild storms, as businesses count the costs of blackouts and lost trade.
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Victoria flood threat
14:18 EDT
Parts of Victoria are under flood watch today as severe thunderstorms lash parts of the state, including Melbourne.
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Sugar mill reliability frustrates growers as the crush drags on and cane is left in the paddock
14:14 EDT
Cane growers in Sarina have ended one of their worst seasons in three decades with about 5 per cent of the crop unharvested.
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Grain crops in SA very likely to be downgraded, stone fruits appear okay but storm front heading for Victoria
14:12 EDT
The storms and high rainfall that have hit South Australia may cause some future fruit damage and the likely downgrading of grain crops
Tony Hannaford from Torrens Valley Orchards who grows cherries in the Adelaide Hills at Gumeracha said he had about 80 millimetres of rain in the last 24 hours.
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NT weather: Kintore residents "shaken up", still stranded after days of flooding
13:38 EDT
The residents of a remote Northern Territory community of Kintore are "pretty shaken up" after heavy rainfalls forced a quarter of the town's population of 400 to seek emergency shelter, a local health worker says.
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Papua New Guinea villagers facing food shortages amid rising population
13:32 EDT
Researchers have warned that villagers in Papua New Guinea could be facing future food shortages because of a dramatic increase in population.
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NSW weather: Extreme heatwave forecast to bring sizzling end to 2016
12:26 EDT
State government agencies have activated a heatwave action plan, with soaring temperatures across most of New South Wales set to cap off 2016.
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Wednesday December 28, 2016
SA weather: More wild weather hits state after Adelaide storm leaves trail of destruction
21:28 EDT
More wild weather has landed in South Australia's north after a powerful storm caused flooding and widespread damage in Adelaide on Tuesday night, with thousands of properties to remain without power into Thursday.
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Victoria weather: BOM issues severe weather warning for damaging winds, heavy rain
20:58 EDT
A severe weather warning has been issued for most of Victoria, with heavy rain and damaging winds expected to bring flash flooding on Thursday.
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Alice Springs police officers swim through floodwaters to rescue two stranded tourists
20:51 EDT
Police officers stripped to their underpants and swam across a raging river swollen by floodwaters to rescue two tourists left stranded after their car was swept off a causeway near Alice Springs.
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NT weather: All missing people found after cars become stranded near Kintore; Alice Springs tourists rescued
17:38 EDT
A man and woman who had been lost for three days and walked 58 kilometres through a remote flooded part of the south-western Northern Territory have been found dehydrated, but otherwise unharmed.
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Storms linger for sodden SA
16:15 EDT
South Australia is reeling today after being lashed by heavy rain, damaging winds and severe storms.
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Extreme heatwave or just hot?
13:26 EDT
Parts of southern Australia just sweltered through their hottest Christmas in more than 70 years.
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Adelaide storm: Enfield residents count the cost of flash flooding
13:02 EDT
Flash flooding caused by a deep low pressure system that rolled through Adelaide overnight has damaged several houses at Enfield in the city's inner-north.
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NT weather: Tourists in car washed away by Central Australia flooding found safe, six still missing
12:48 EDT
A tourist who was reportedly trapped in a car which washed off a causeway at the flooded Hugh River near Alice Springs has been found safe along with one other occupant, Northern Territory Police say.
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One hundred years since Australia's 'one in 500 year' flood event in Clermont
11:28 EDT
On December 28, 1916, a "one in 500 year" flood event threatened to destroy the outback Queensland town of Clermont, 300 kilometres south-west of Mackay.
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Tuesday December 27, 2016
NSW heatwave begins as Australia heads for fifth warmest year, meteorologists say
21:35 EDT
This year could be Australia's fifth warmest on record, and New South Wales will feel it with a heatwave over much of the eastern coast for the final days of 2016.
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BOM issues severe weather warning for South Australia as tropical low covers state
16:31 EDT
Large areas of South Australia are facing damaging winds and flash flooding as a tropical low pressure system moves across the state, bringing with it heavy rain and potential thunderstorms.
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Northern Territory rains ensure fat cattle and better returns in 2017
15:43 EDT
Heavy rain falls at many remote Northern Territory cattle stations are ensuring a lot of fat cattle for 2017.
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Severe weather for the NT and SA
13:48 EDT
Severe weather has been ravaging central and southern Australia, as a low and trough filled with tropical moisture head south.
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Victoria's weather extremes: high bushfire threat to tropical in 24 hours
11:47 EDT
Victorians are warned to brace for extreme weather changes with a high bushfire threat to hit the state before tropical weather and thunderstorms bring hot and sticky conditions along with possible flash flooding.
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Uluru national park closed, scores shelter from flash floods in Central Australia
09:54 EDT
A massive Christmas night storm and heavy rain that has sparked damaging flash floods in Central Australia is being described as a once-in-a-half-century weather event by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
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Monday December 26, 2016
Melbourne heat to ease by New Year's Eve, BOM says, but showers for Boxing Day Test
15:23 EDT
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is assuring Victorians their New Year's Eve celebrations will be a lot cooler after Melbourne roasted through its hottest Christmas in 18 years, but there may be some showers around for the cricket.
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Flood Watch and downy mildew alert issued in South Australia amid tropical low
14:41 EDT
Wet and humid weather in South Australia has prompted a downy mildew warning for wine grape growers as a tropical low pressure system from Western Australia moves slowly across the state.
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Sunday December 25, 2016
Super Typhoon Nina hits central Philippines
23:34 EDT
A powerful typhoon has made landfall on the eastern coast of central Philippines, where at least 150,000 people are spending their Christmas in evacuation shelters.
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Widespread Lightning for NSW
11:32 EDT
Over 600,000 lightning strikes were recorded yesterday as storms sparked up across NSW.
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Hot Christmas weather, fire risk ahead for Victoria, authorities say
10:55 EDT
Hot and windy conditions forecast for Victoria in the coming days will create a serious risk of grass and bushfires, the state's Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley says.
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Christmas Eve fog not a Bridgewater Jerry in reverse, weather bureau says
09:34 EDT
A Christmas Eve fog which blanketed the greater Hobart area has been interpreted incorrectly as a reversal of the famous Bridgewater Jerry, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
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Mixed bag of Christmas weather
08:39 EDT
Australia is certainly living up to its characteristically diverse and interesting weather this Christmas day, with everything from tropical low pressure systems, mildew and fog happening at the same time.
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Saturday December 24, 2016
Weather you're naughty or nice...
13:40 EDT
Santa Claus better make a list of all the current weather disturbances and check it twice tonight, because, across Australia at least, he could have a bumpy ride!
Little is known about the fat man's choice of flight direction around the planet known as Earth.
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Friday December 23, 2016
Broome swamped in wettest December on record
16:33 EDT
A tropical low pressure system has combined with Cyclone Yvette to dump more than 200 millimetres of rain on Broome.
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Detailed Christmas Day forecast
12:21 EDT
Intense heat, thunderstorms, flooding rain and damaging winds are all on the cards for Christmas Day this year.
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SA Government declares 'code red' for homeless during hot spell, shelters to stay open longer
12:08 EDT
South Australia's homeless services will be boosted over the Christmas period as a result of forecast extreme heat over the next few days.
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Weather 2016: Year of massive storms and devastating fires
11:06 EDT
From January's double-whammy of bushfires and floods to the year's steady stream of brutal storms, Australia copped a battering in 2016.
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Holiday heat to grip southeast
09:54 EDT
It will be a warm week of celebrations between Christmas and New Year's Eve for those in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney this year.
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BOM Christmas weekend forecast predicts scorcher for Victoria, SA
08:53 EDT
It is the most hotly anticipated forecast of the year â?? the Christmas break weekend prediction for capital cities.
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Snowstorm hits Sahara for first time in nearly 40 years
07:57 EDT
The Algerian town of Ain Sefra â?? known as "the gateway to the desert" â?? is probably not the first place that springs to mind when someone mentions snow.
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Thursday December 22, 2016
Adelaide set for hottest Christmas Day since 1945 as heatwave conditions hit South Australia
18:31 EDT
Fire authorities will be on high alert in South Australia as Adelaide prepares for its hottest Christmas Day since 1945, with a forecast top temperature of 40 degrees Celsius.
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Positives of writing short stories help outback kid beat Queensland drought
16:30 EDT
For half of his life, eight-year-old writer Lochy Matthews' family property has been in drought.
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Holiday heat to grip southeast
16:10 EDT
It will be a warm week of celebrations between Christmas and New Year's Eve for those in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney this year.
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Melbourne Christmas to be a 'scorcher' as weather bureau warns of severe heatwave for Victoria
14:49 EDT
Victoria is set for a very hot Christmas, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning of severe heatwave conditions for much of the state on Friday and across the weekend.
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Cyclone Yvette: Build-up in WA's north as system gathers strength
13:06 EDT
A huge storm front filled with red dust is looming over Western Australia's Pilbara, as a tropical cyclone hovering off the coast is expected to make landfall over the Christmas weekend.
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Concessional loans as storm assistance slammed by peak industry body
11:42 EDT
The peak body for dried fruit growers has slammed the government's agricultural storm assistance measures and are instead offering its own.
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Thunderstorms pass through south-east Queensland
11:11 EDT
Severe thunderstorms have rumbled through towns west of Brisbane and headed towards the Sunshine Coast this evening, skirting past the capital.
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Cyclone Yvette forms as flooding rain continues for WA, NT
09:54 EDT
Tropical Cyclone Yvette is on track to make landfall over the north coast of Western Australia during the Christmas period.
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Flood-affected families in state's north struggling to cope over Christmas
07:41 EDT
Six months on from , many families are still struggling emotionally and mentally, a rural support agency says.
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Cyclone Yvette forms off Pilbara coast, set to approach WA over Christmas weekend
01:19 EDT
A tropical low off Western Australia's Pilbara coast has officially developed into the first cyclone of the season and has been named Yvette, with forecasters saying it could hit land over Christmas.
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Weather News
Sydney's hottest year on record
15:21 EDT
Sydney is feeling the heat today as the city nears the end of its hottest year on record.
How do Australian native animals stay cool in the summer?
15:02 EDT
As , our furry friends will be looking for a shady place to stay cool, just as we do.
Victoria weather: BOM forecasts heavy rain and storms across state after hot night in Melbourne
14:44 EDT
Heavy rain and storms are forecast for Victoria today after a sweltering night in Melbourne, with the authorities issuing a warning about flash flooding.
