Australian Weather Forecast

For Wednesday

MinMax

National Summary

Low pressure east of Tas will bring gusty showers across Tas, Vic and eastern NSW. Moist onshore flow will maintain showers over coastal Qld and the Top End. A trough and cold front over western WA will bring showers and possibly the odd storm.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Wednesday

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A Cruel Angel's Summer

As southeast Australia shivers through a cold start to August, southern Japan is sweltering through a mid-summer heatwave, possibly even “cruelly” hot.

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Brrr! A shivering start to August for parts of southeastern Australia

A shivering cold start to August swept across southeastern Australia this morning, with several inland locations recording their coldest August minimum temperatures in years, and in some cases, over a decade.

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Melbourne expecting coldest morning of the year

Melbourne is forecast to kick off August with a Saturday morning minimum around 2°C, which would make it the city’s coldest morning of the year to date.

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A positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) may be developing – What this means for Australia

One of Australia’s main climate drivers – the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) – may have just entered a phase that typically brings warm and dry weather to Australia.

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