Weather News
Monday May 1, 2017
Will we have a good snow season this year?
10:45 EST
There were two decent rounds of alpine snow last month and much of Australia's southeast shivered through their coldest temperatures in at least six months last week.
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Sunday April 30, 2017
Colder showery change moving through southern states
16:08 EST
A front is bringing a colder showery change to southern Australia, dropping temperatures by five-to-10 degrees.
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North Queensland chills
09:54 EST
Some inland areas of Northern Queensland have had their coldest April morning in at least 60 years.
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Saturday April 29, 2017
Fog and low cloud glooming southern Australia
14:41 EST
Large areas of southern Australia can expect a foggy start to the next few mornings, reducing visibility for the first few hours, even in the southeastern capitals.
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Dry taste for tropics
11:51 EST
The strongest southeasterly wind surge since last Dry Season has swept out any lingering sticky humidity from the summer over a large swathe of the central and eastern tropics.
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Friday April 28, 2017
BOM predicts a less destructive South Australian coastal storm season this year
18:26 EST
As the mercury plummets across South Australia ahead of winter, coastal properties are preparing for the inevitable storm surges.
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Arid April in Perth
15:37 EST
Perth has not recorded any rainfall so far this month.
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Flood assistance 'slow' as coordination issues dog federal-state response to WA disasters
14:08 EST
A Western Australian Government official says "our eyes widened" when the new administration faced federal-state cooperative issues tackling the state's storm recovery after months of damaging weather.
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Whitehaven Beach gets environmental makeover after 'catastrophic' Cyclone Debbie
11:31 EST
Hundreds of tonnes of pristine white sand have been excavated to rebuild Australia's iconic Whitehaven Beach off north Queensland after Cyclone Debbie caused severe erosion and damage.
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Cyclone Frances keeping its distance
11:02 EST
Tropical Cyclone Frances is intensifying rapidly to the north of Australia and may become a severe tropical cyclone by tonight.
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Canberra shivers through first sub-zero morning of 2017, warmer days ahead
08:04 EST
Canberra has awoken to its first freezing morning of the year, with temperatures dropping to -1.7 degrees Celsius.
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Thursday April 27, 2017
Late-season cyclone potential
16:30 EST
A tropical cyclone may form in Australian waters during the next 24 hours, although the system will have little impact on our mainland.
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Wintry chill grips six states and territories
14:58 EST
Parts of eastern and southeast Australia experienced their coldest temperatures in at least six months this morning.
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Hobart heritage buildings not built to withstand Tasmania's toughest wind speeds
11:20 EST
Tasmania's heritage buildings are taking a battering from gusty winds they were not designed to withstand.
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Wednesday April 26, 2017
Victoria on track for wet April after wintry blast hits state
15:20 EST
Parts of Victoria have already received almost double the average rainfall this month, and some areas have recorded the wettest April in 16 years.
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Several weather systems set to pummel NZ
15:10 EST
New Zealanders are bracing for a week of wild weather.
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Smoke signals the burning of heavy stubble, a hangover of last year's record NSW crop
14:56 EST
The skies above New South Wales farms have been filled with smoke in recent weeks as growers burn a huge load of dry stubble left over from last year's record crop yields.
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Cold and frosty lead-up to the last weekend of April
11:00 EST
Frosty morning temperatures are expected over Victoria and New South Wales on Thursday.
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Tuesday April 25, 2017
Freezing nights to come for Canberra
15:06 EST
Night-time temperatures will drop well below average in the Capital from Wednesday.
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Warm oceans fuelling late end to big wet season
14:26 EST
Warmer-than-normal oceans have contributed to a late end to a big wet season across the southern hemisphere.
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Great Barrier Reef: Making clouds brighter could help to curb coral bleaching, scientists say
14:21 EST
Marine scientists have upped the ante in their fight to save the Great Barrier Reef from the devastating effects of coral bleaching.
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From Kenya to Queensland â?? how a famine inspired one man's fight against drought
14:02 EST
Growing up on his family's farm in Kenya in the 1980s, Richard Koech lived through one of the worst droughts in history, which inspired him to spend a lifetime studying water.
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Monday April 24, 2017
Drought-stricken Indian farmers shock Tamil Nadu government into action
21:53 EST
Farmers desperately seeking drought relief have suspended a dramatic protest in Delhi, during which they ate rats and threatened to consume their own faeces, after the Government vowed to meet their demands.
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Cyclone Debbie likely to cost Queensland budget $1.5 billion
16:39 EST
Queensland's upcoming budget is expected to take a $1.5 billion hit from Cyclone Debbie, Treasurer Curtis Pitt says, despite the overall damage bill to private and public infrastructure predicted to reach $2 billion.
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ANZAC Day Dawn Service Forecast
14:40 EST
What will the weather be like for ANZAC Day Dawn Services around the country?
Sydney will be dry with temperatures ranging from around 18 degrees in the east to 14 in the west.
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Rain, storms and snow loom for Australia's southeast
11:36 EST
The best rain in three-to-six months will soak parts of the Murray-Darling Basin during the next three days, before a wintry blast grips Australia's southeast.
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Sunday April 23, 2017
Far north QLD gets a drenching
09:31 EST
Heavy rain has fallen over Queensland's far north and there is more tropical activity on the cards this week.
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Saturday April 22, 2017
NSW School-children say YES to sunshine
12:51 EST
New South Wales: The Premier State, the state other states love to hate.
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More rain headed for South Australia
11:21 EST
While thundery clouds and showers are clearing over South Australia over the weekend, more rainfall is headed to the southern and southeastern parts of the country early next week.
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Friday April 21, 2017
BOM defends itself over complaints it failed to warn Murwillumbah residents about flooding
18:04 EST
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has described the floods that hit the New South Wales north coast three weeks ago as a "one in a thousand year event".
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Devastated artists pull together for northern New South Wales flood recovery
16:32 EST
When acclaimed Aboriginal artist Digby Moran opened the door to his studio a fortnight ago, he found more than 80 of his paintings floating in stagnant water.
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Weather forecasters eye tropical low as NT's wet season tipped to get wetter
15:59 EST
Weather forecasters are predicting a tropical low currently building strength in the Gulf of Papua will bring the Top End yet another burst of wet weather ahead of the start of the dry season.
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Friday night lights
15:03 EST
People in some of Australia's southern states could witness the Aurora Australis tonight.
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Spencer's burrowing frog springs back to life in the wet, surviving its gruelling desert habitat
13:30 EST
West of Alice Springs you might find something hiding in the desert sands that is small and knows how to survive its long, dry spells by burying itself until the rain comes.
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Record April rain soaks southern states
09:32 EST
Two month's worth of rain has fallen in agricultural regions of South Australia and Victoria during the last 24 hours, with some areas breaking records for this time of the year.
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Thursday April 20, 2017
Outback deluge transforms Uluru
15:49 EST
Waterfalls have been cascading down Uluru this week as thunderstorms rumble over the Red Centre.
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Late-season warmth in Tasmania
15:46 EST
Parts of Tasmania are having their warmest day this late in the season for almost 50 years.
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Flood-affected farmers in New South Wales call for disaster funding three weeks on
14:28 EST
The macadamia industry is urgently calling for a decision to be made on Category C disaster assistance for its growers in northern New South Wales.
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Wednesday April 19, 2017
Turtle triage gets shell-shocked reptiles back on their feet after storms
15:23 EST
About 30 freshwater turtles injured in wild weather during March are on the slow road to recovery on the Gold Coast.
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Rain looms for Lower Murray-Darling
15:07 EST
Parts of the Lower Murray-Darling Basin could receive a month's worth of rain during the next two days.
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Warm night in parched Adelaide
10:33 EST
Adelaide woke up to its warmest April morning in 10 years but a change is on the way.
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You raise me up: Lismore homes adapted to the flood plain
09:28 EST
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With the beauty of hindsight, one could argue that this town in NSW's Northern Rivers should never have been built where it was.
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Tuesday April 18, 2017
Cyclone Debbie recovery costs to hit Queensland budget bottom line
17:13 EST
The recovery from Cyclone Debbie will cost so much it will dominate the Queensland budget in June, Treasurer Curtis Pitt has warned.
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April sun treating SA, TAS, VIC and NSW so right
15:21 EST
Much of South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales are being treated so right by the April sun, helping it warm five-to-10 degrees above average, the warmest this late in autumn in several years.
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Another peppering of showers for the eastern seaboard
13:37 EST
Showers will again make return to plague the New South Wales and Queensland coast this week, bringing an end to the generally clear and warm Easter weekend.
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Now Temperature
At Darwin Ap
11:00 CST
32°C
23°C
Mostly sunny
Weather News
Will we have a good snow season this year?
10:45 EST
There were two decent rounds of alpine snow last month and much of Australia's southeast shivered through their coldest temperatures in at least six months last week.
Colder showery change moving through southern states
16:08 EST
A front is bringing a colder showery change to southern Australia, dropping temperatures by five-to-10 degrees.
North Queensland chills
09:54 EST
Some inland areas of Northern Queensland have had their coldest April morning in at least 60 years.
