Australian Weather Forecast

For Thursday

MinMax

National Summary

A low over the Tasman Sea should bring showers to Tas, Vic and southeast NSW. Some rainfall will linger over WA from yesterday's trough. High pressure should maintain dry conditions over the interior while onshore winds bring showers to northeast Qld.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Thursday

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News from across Australia

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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