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Record heat for Australia in driest April for 21 years
A huge heatwave that seared much of Australia helped drive April daytime temperatures to a record high.
- by Peter Hannam
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Sydney smashes April records with a month of summer-like heat
If this April in Sydney often felt more like mid-summer than mid-autumn, you wouldn't be far off the mark
- by Peter Hannam
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Tulip farms are striped with colour in Netherlands in spring
The area around Lisse, in west central Netherlands, is now covered in fields of tulips.
- by Angela Fritz
Extreme weather
Sydney weather: Dry thunderstorm expected today, wet weekend ahead
Sydney gardens areset to get some relief from the dry spell on Friday as long-awaited showers and possibly thunderstorms arrive, the weather bureau predicts.
- by Benjamin Potter
Weather
'It's weird': Return of summer sends plants into confusion
Record-breaking heat more akin to summer than autumn is exacerbating the dry spell in Sydney and Australia's south-east.
- by Peter Hannam
Weather
Sydney heat records get another nudge as south-east Australia sizzles
South-eastern Australia's big autumn heatwave has again pushed temperatures to record levels.
- by Peter Hannam
Weather
Record-breaking heatwave settles in over Sydney
The heatwave that has seared south-eastern Australia for days will nudge the mercury in Sydney back towards the record April temperature set just days ago.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
The heat returns: Three days above 30C on the horizon for Sydney
The huge warm air mass that broke national records in recent days will edge eastwards, setting up Sydney for three days in a row above 30 degrees.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
Riding the heat wave: Sydney sets late-season temperature records
Parts of Sydney set record temperatures for this far into autumn as much of south-eastern Australia basks in unseasonable warmth.
- by Peter Hannam
Weather
Sydney's perfect weather - in and out of the water - to continue
Sydney is expected to have a taste of summer-like weather in the week ahead.
- by Georgina Mitchell
Weather
Melbourne's summer-like temperatures nudge late season heat records
A burst of heat from inland Australia will sweep across the south-east in coming days, challenging records for this late in the year, meteorologists said.
- by Peter Hannam & Amber Schultz