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At Darwin Ap

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Weather News

No Perth rain in April for first time since 1982

13:23 EST

No rain fell in Perth at all during the month of April for only the fourth time in the past 140 years, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

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.