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Extreme heat forecast for first day at school
It will be a blazing start to the new school year.
It will be a blazing start to the new school year.
An unusually quiet period for cyclones in the Australian region may come to an end within days.
Showers and possible storms will sweep across Sydney on Tuesday afternoon
Sydney is heading for its hottest ever January at least for overnight temperatures.
There's little sign of summer taking a holiday this week, with more scorching days and a string of warm nights ahead.
Damaging winds pass Canberra by with severe thunderstorm warning cancelled.
A large fire swallowed more than 3300 hectares as it burned east from Lake George on Tuesday afternoon.
Sydneysiders have endured yet another sticky, stifling night of summer, with the temperature not dipping below 28 degrees in the city all night.
After a reprieve from extreme heat on Sunday, Sydney is in for one hot night on Tuesday.
ActewAGL and SES crews were on Sunday still cleaning up damage from Friday's freak windstorm.
It dropped the temperature nine degrees in nine minutes and now a major clean-up is underway in the capital after Friday's freak windstorm.
You're not wrong: Sydney has just tossed and turned through a night of "quite exceptional" heat.
As NSW residents yet again brace themselves for scorching heat with the mercury set to rise above 40c, authorities have issued a total fire ban across most of the state.
After a warm night, Melbourne woke up to light rain on Friday, a little taster of the heavier falls expected later on.
Power cuts, sizzled tennis players and runaway grassfires featured in another scorching summer's day in and around Sydney, with only a limited respite before the heat returns.
Sydneysiders are in for a roasting as high temperatures combine with rising humidity to make for an exceptionally uncomfortable day.
Health authorities have warned Sydneysiders to be on alert as the baking sun sends temperatures and ozone levels soaring and triggers a total fire ban.
NSW Health has issued an air pollution alert as Sydney prepares to swelter through another summer day, warning residents that an increased level of ozone in the atmosphere is likely to affect residents with respiratory problems.
Canberrans who have stepped outside and felt particularly sweaty these past four days can blame the mercury for hitting 30 degrees or higher since Friday. And they may not get some relief for at least another week.
Sydneysiders face an extended period of hot weather with warm nights likely to give only limited relief from daytime heat peaks.
The first band of what forecasters predict will be the region's most powerful storm in a decade moved into Northern California on Saturday evening, prompting official warnings of widespread flooding and epic snowfall in mountain areas.
A stubborn heatwave is settling in across the state with little relief in sight for days.
Melbourne Renegades defend the decision to hang two giant JumboTron screens above the arena for Saturday night's Big Bash League derby.
Most of NSW will endure heatwave conditions from now until at least the middle of next week as a hot air mass moves in from central Australia.
Sydney will get its first burst of summer heat in 2017 starting from the weekend, as dreary conditions make way for the sun.
Australia posted its fourth-hottest year in 2016, driven by record sea-surface temperatures around the nation, in a period marked by frequent extreme events, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Melbourne is trapped under a mass of thick cloud one month into summer, because of a weather event known as "anticyclonic gloom."
This year was Sydney's hottest year even without massive heatwaves but a monster mid-year storm provided the wildest weather.
After a scorching and humid week Sydney's heatwave is set to recede tomorrow, just in time for new year celebrations.
Thursday marked the first day of the summer that a Sydney weather station recorded the mercury touching 40 degrees.
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