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Monday January 30, 2017
Canberra fire danger severe with ACT set to swelter through another hot week
08:26 EDT
Hot weather and strong winds forecast for Canberra have seen a total fire ban put in place across the ACT and surrounding regions today.
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Victorian weather: Extreme heat warning issued, total fire ban declared for state
07:45 EDT
An extreme heat warning has been issued for Victoria, with temperatures expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the state.
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Sunday January 29, 2017
Northern Territory waterfalls of Litchfield National Park in full flight
15:25 EDT
The spectacular waterfalls at Litchfield National Park, south of Darwin, are pumping after huge amounts of wet season rain.
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Sydney's neverending heat
14:09 EDT
As school goes back this week the scorching summer-holiday-heat is sticking around.
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Wrap up of the Tropical Low
12:31 EDT
A tropical low is now continuing off WA's Pilbara coast and weakening over the Indian Ocean.
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Saturday January 28, 2017
WA cyclone: BOM gives Pilbara residents all clear for tropical low
21:44 EDT
People in parts of Western Australia's Pilbara region are given the all clear by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) regarding a tropical low that earlier prompted a blue alert.
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Bodies recovered after three drown in crowded 4WD swept into Northern Territory floodwaters
20:52 EDT
The bodies of a woman and two men have been recovered after their troop carrier trying to cross a flooded causeway south-west of Darwin was swept off the road with 20 people on board.
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NSW Floods: Farmers in state's central west still recovering three months on
18:03 EDT
Farmers in central western New South Wales are still counting their losses from major flooding three months ago that devastated properties in the region.
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Wet end to a dry month for Perth
11:47 EDT
Perth and surrounding areas can expect falls close to double the average January rainfall over the next few days.
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Swampy in South Australia's south
11:43 EDT
With the end of January fast approaching, it looks like a swathe of southern South Australia has received record-breaking monthly and seasonal rainfall.
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WA cyclone alert: Pilbara warned of possible weekend cyclone
11:30 EDT
People from Port Hedland to Ningaloo in Western Australia's Pilbara region are being warned to brace for a possible cyclone as a tropical low bears down on the area.
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Friday January 27, 2017
Bureau of Meteorology forecasts drier than average three months in eastern Australia
17:22 EDT
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is forecasting February to April rainfall is likely to be below average in much of eastern Australia and above average in parts of the north-west and the northern NT.
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Lake Argyle overflows as potential cyclone looms off WA coast
16:04 EDT
Lake Argyle in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is overflowing for the first time in three years.
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Hot Monday lies ahead
15:55 EDT
The Monday blues will be on heat next week as temperatures climb seven to 12 degrees above average in five of Australia's capital cities.
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Cyclone threat looms for WA
10:04 EDT
The second tropical cyclone of the season is likely to form to the north of Western Australia during the next 48 hours.
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Lake Nash cattle station soaked with rain, Georgina River in flood
09:20 EDT
Rain continues to soak cattle stations in remote parts of the Northern Territory, with .
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Hot, wet start to summer sees fly numbers boom across Australia
08:56 EDT
No matter how much you swat, wave, yell, or occasionally swallow flies, their persistence always beats yours.
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Thursday January 26, 2017
Airliner causes rare fallstreak hole in clouds above South Australia's Riverland
14:05 EDT
Residents in South Australia's Riverland region may have spotted something quirky in the sky this morning, after an unusual cloud formation appeared over Lake Bonney at Barmera.
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Another possible tropical cyclone for northern WA
12:26 EDT
Following the landfall of weak Tropical Cyclone Yvette late in December last year, it looks likely that another tropical cyclone will impact the Kimberley and Pilbara in coming days.
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Wet weather sees Mount Todd gold mine owned by Vista Gold discharging contaminated water into Edith River
09:33 EDT
A gold mine north of Katherine has started deliberately discharging contaminated water into a river due to the heavy rainfall in the area.
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Wednesday January 25, 2017
New research strategy offers hope to pastoralists battling mystery cattle disease in southern Flinders Ranges
17:54 EDT
South Australia's peak livestock body wants more research funding to help solve mysterious cattle deaths that have left pastoralists and vets baffled for more than a century.
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Outback pilots deliver goods to remote NT communities and check properties as wet weather continues
16:27 EDT
Aircraft companies are being pushed to extremes as they drop food and supplies to Northern Territory communities stranded by continuing wet weather.
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Heavy rains transform Nitmiluk National Park after several poor wet seasons
15:40 EDT
Nitmiluk National Park in the Northern Territory has been transformed by a strong start to the Top End wet season, after several years of below average rainfall.
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Detailed Australia Day forecast
14:39 EDT
Australia Day is a sleep away.
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Chatsworth station manager loads up horses for last time and heads south
12:44 EDT
After managing Chatsworth Station in north-west Queensland for 35 years, John Jones is packing up the horses for the last time and heading south.
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Hot and dry start 2017 in NSW
12:03 EDT
A stagnant weather pattern at the beginning of 2017 has caused multiple heatwaves and sparse rainfall across New South Wales.
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Tuesday January 24, 2017
NT weather: Crocs, floods, and food drops as Top End residents brace for more heavy rainfall
17:37 EDT
The Katherine River is set to flood as an active monsoon trough causes heavy rains and squally showers across the Northern Territory, registering the wettest day in five years.
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Darwin deluge as monsoon returns
16:02 EDT
The monsoon trough has redeveloped over northern Australia this week, bringing Darwin its heaviest rain five years.
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NSW heatwave: Records tumble in Moree, while Sydney set to swelter with top of 40C
14:06 EDT
As the mercury soars in Sydney today, spare a thought for the people of Moree in northern New South Wales, who are in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
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Heatwave: Why you have trouble sleeping during hot nights
12:58 EDT
The morning after a sweltering summer night, when you have tossed and turned and sweated in your sheets, many may experience a rude awakening.
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Heat plaguing Sydney
11:27 EDT
Sydney is enduring yet another hot and muggy day and remains on track to have its warmest January on record.
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NT weather: Bureau predicts week of wet weather
10:56 EDT
The Bureau of Meteorology is warning there will be severe weather in the Top End and the southern Northern Territory, with heavy rainfall and flood watches.
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Bumper year in agriculture won't be repeated, Queensland missed the boom: report
10:40 EDT
An unusually strong year of agricultural production in 2016 is unlikely to be repeated this year, according to the Australian Farm Institute's (AFI) latest outlook.
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Swarm of grasshoppers take over Central Australia, but expert says no threat to southern crops
10:33 EDT
Swarms of insects have descended upon the Central Australian outback after recent rainfall.
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Monday January 23, 2017
Stormy start to the week
16:25 EDT
Severe thunderstorms are affecting three states this afternoon.
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Trans-Tasman temperature contrast
15:28 EDT
New Zealand is experiencing an unseasonably cool summer, whilst parts of eastern Australia endure their hottest start to the year on record.
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Kimberley cattle country soaked by January rains in great start to season
10:39 EDT
Cattle stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia have had an extremely wet start to 2017.
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Forbes Creek couple look to rebuild dream home one year after freak 'mini tornado'
06:51 EDT
On a windy night late last January, Jan and Geoff McKergow's dream home was torn to rubble.
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Sunday January 22, 2017
Heating up across the southeastern capitals
11:19 EDT
A couple of scorchers are on the way for Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney over the next few days.
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Darwin not quite that wet (yet)
11:13 EDT
Following a good start to January 2017 rainfall, when 125mm fell during the first 48 hours of the year, conditions have been relatively dry for the Northern Territory capital.
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Saturday January 21, 2017
Steamy night in Brisbane
14:29 EDT
In the early hours of the morning, Brisbane had its warmest minimum temperature since at least 1999, when the mercury halted its descent at 28 degrees just after 3am.
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Stormy conditions again for Aotearoa
11:51 EDT
Another intense low pressure system is set to impact New Zealand from this evening, with heavy rain and severe gales forecast.
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Friday January 20, 2017
SA weather: Thousands without power after wild storms cross state
17:26 EDT
Thousands of properties are without power in South Australia, with Adelaide being the hardest hit, after a storm front crossed the state last night.
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Adelaide's sodden summer
17:04 EDT
Adelaide is having the wettest summer to date in more than half a century.
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Tasmania weather: threat of flash flooding eases as heavy rain fails to eventuate
16:27 EDT
Heavy rain has fallen across Tasmania's north-east, with more than 90 millimetres recorded at Gray.
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WA's South West a 'canary in the coalmine' for climate change
14:40 EDT
After 200 years of changing the landscape of the world's most distinctive continent we are only just beginning to understand how European settlers and their successors have vitally affected its ecology, its diversity and its climate.
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South reeling as severe weather spreads east
12:03 EDT
Severe weather will spread over parts of eastern Australia today after a wild night in the nation's south.
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Pineapple farmers apply 'sunblock' to fruit as Queensland heatwave reaches peak
09:58 EDT
Pineapple farmers on the Sunshine Coast are concerned their fruit will burn and become unsaleable as a heatwave in south east Queensland reaches its peak today.
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Severe weather warning for Tasmania's north-east, possible flash flooding
09:04 EDT
Severe weather predicted for Tasmania's north and east today has prompted a public warning from emergency services.
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Thursday January 19, 2017
Wet night ahead of Friday flood threat
15:00 EDT
Rain and storms could bring flooding to parts of southern and southeast Australia during the next 24 hours.
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Weather News
Canberra fire danger severe with ACT set to swelter through another hot week
08:26 EDT
Hot weather and strong winds forecast for Canberra have seen a total fire ban put in place across the ACT and surrounding regions today.
Victorian weather: Extreme heat warning issued, total fire ban declared for state
07:45 EDT
An extreme heat warning has been issued for Victoria, with temperatures expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the state.
Northern Territory waterfalls of Litchfield National Park in full flight
15:25 EDT
The spectacular waterfalls at Litchfield National Park, south of Darwin, are pumping after huge amounts of wet season rain.
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