Coolest Sydney April in nine years to make way for early May warmth
Sydney's mild autumn is set to extend well into May.
Sydney's mild autumn is set to extend well into May.
At least 10 people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the US South and Midwest with a rare late-season blizzard hitting western Kansas.
The warm and sunny weekend weather is set to continue for Sydney, as the week gets off to a bright start ahead of showers and cooler temperatures on Wednesday.
Temperatures in the capital slipped to minus 1.8 degrees at 6:50am on Friday.
A cold snap is likely to give way to a milder few months ahead.
Autumn is likely to feel a lot like winter over the coming days - particularly in the evenings and early mornings.
The worst of Cyclone Cook is over, leaving some wondering: "Was that really it?"
Blue skies and mostly above-average temperatures are forecast across Sydney this Easter long weekend.
More rain could fall in Melbourne on Sunday than is usually recorded for the month of April with damaging winds and possible flash flooding also forecast.
Three people from the same family are feared to be dead in a car that disappeared in floodwaters.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned insurers not to delay making payments to flood-hit regions of the state's north as the damage bill from last week's floods continues to rise.
NSW floods continue to wreak havoc, with new evacuation orders expected later on Saturday.
Torrential rain has flooded towns and cities in northern NSW, with fears lives have been lost.
Stacy Smith's family were forced to quit their new beachside home after mould rotted the carpet of one of the children's bedrooms and infiltrated the walls and ceiling, resulting in dangerously high levels of mycotoxins.
Sydney copped almost triple the usual rainfall in March and the sodden conditions are likely to extend well into April, the Bureau of Meteorology predicts.
Thousands have abandoned their homes in northern NSW and hundreds of people rescued from floodwaters as the remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Debbie bore down, dumping a staggering amount of rain on the region.
The widespread flooding in northern NSW has prompted the Insurance Council of Australia to add the region to its catastrophe declaration in the wake of Cyclone Debbie.
Sydney is in for a sodden end to what is likely to be its wettest March in 42 years as a strong cold front bumps into the remnants of powerful ex-tropical Cyclone Debbie.
For those who chase severe storms the thrill of the chase is tempered by danger.
Sydney and coastal regions are in for their share of wild weather as an arriving cold front meets the remnant tropical low from Cyclone Debbie.
Queensland begins mopping up after Cyclone Debbie hit the coast, cutting a path of destruction and the ex-tropical storm isn't done yet.
Latest on the category 4 storm as it heads for the north Queensland near Bowen.
Emergency services in Canberra received 24 calls for help on Monday night as a thunderstorm heading east faced its last moments.
It's the storm surge not the wind that poses the main risk for residents living in Debbie's path.
Clouds have fascinated and frightened shepherds and seafarers alike and now modern-day weather geeks have a new event to celebrate – the first updated international cloud atlas in six decades.
March has not just been great weather for ducks - but also for mushroom pickers.
Hundreds of Sydney home owners will be out inspecting damage to their properties on Thursday with rain and even a possible storm hindering the clean-up.
Strong wind gusts and "sideways rain" have lashed Sydney and the Central Coast, leaving more than 33,000 homes without power.
Another soggy journey home awaits Sydneysiders on Tuesday evening with storm cells moving in from the north-west.
The wet weather seems to be encouraging nature of the slithering kind to hunt out the great - and dry - indoors.