Weather

The weather serves as both a great unifier and obsession for most Australians and now the Bureau of Meteorology is about to bring in the next generation of online forecasting technology.

A new scientific paper suggests humans have had their fingerprints all over droughts for the past century, both in making them better and making them worse.

The driest wet season in decades has failed to replenish groundwater levels across the Darwin rural area and could soon see residents like Simon Smith run out of water completely.

Yet more rain in recent days in western Queensland has meant the rivers are flowing. But sadly the latest downpours, linked to the snow in Western Australia on Good Friday, hasn't been enough to get more than a dribble into the Darling.

It turns out Tasmania has the perfect combination of clear skies, cloud patterns and latitudinal coordinates to allow for the observation of more rainbows there than anywhere else in Australia.