Nearly 100mm in one hour, including 36mm in 10 minutes, has poured down on the small northern Queensland town of Georgetown overnight with an intense thunderstorm. On Wednesday evening, thunderstorms ...

Many recent conversations around Sydney have been about how much it has cooled this autumn, so we investigated and have found some numbers to back it up. These conversations have been warranted. In ...

With tropical cyclones currently active in Australian waters and repeated heatwaves in recent weeks, the weather gods have decided to throw a little Aussie summer snow into the weather mix. Towards ...

Earth just had its most moisture-laden April on record as unrivalled air and ocean temperatures caused atmospheric moisture content to surge across the planet. It has been known since the 1800s that ...

Australia saw twelve tropical cyclones develop in its waters during the 2024/25 tropical cyclone season, the most in a season since 2005/06. The 2024/25 tropical cyclone season, which runs from ...

Spectacular storms swept across eastern Australia on Wednesday evening, delivering a light show worthy of any New Year's Eve fireworks display. A combination of fork and sheet lightning lit up the ...

Over 4 months of rainfall has fallen in a single day in southeastern parts of WA, with the chance of over a years' worth of rainfall falling by the end of the week. Eyre, along WA’s southern coast, ...

Australia has registered its third-warmest October since national records were first kept in 1910, with Queensland and the Northern Territory recording their hottest Octobers on record. Seven of the ...

This year’s positive Indian Ocean Dipole is gaining strength so quickly that it’s getting close to the record-challenging 2019 event that underpinned Australia’s warmest and driest year on record.

A hybrid cyclone looks set to form off the east coast of Victoria on Tuesday, producing heavy rain and possibly areas of flooding in eastern Victoria, southeast NSW and eastern Tasmania. The sequence ...

An unseasonably warm air mass will challenge winter heat records in central Australia over the coming week, with temperatures set to climb more than 15°C above average for this time of year. A ...

Dangerous fire weather is on its way for the eastern states from today (Wednesday) through to at least Saturday, as winds strengthen ahead of an approaching cold front. This will not be your classic ...