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Unrelenting high pressure dominating Australia’s weather
Ben Domensino, 07-MayA stubborn area of high pressure has been entrenched to the south of Australia over the last few weeks, causing a lengthy run of repetitive weather acr...
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Driest 12 months on record for big chunk of WA
Anthony Sharwood, 07-MayIf you're wondering why the long overdue rain that fell in parched southwest WA last week was so welcome, take a look at the chart below. The chart s...
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500km line of storms sweeping across the Goldfields,WA
Ashleigh Madden, 06-MayOver 32 thousand lightning strikes hit the Kalgoorlie region on Sunday and Monday, with more rainfall to come at the end of this week for the state&rsq...
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Rain every day this week in NSW
Ben Domensino, 06-MayThe NSW coast can expect another week of rain as eastern Australia remains stuck in a stagnant pattern of wet and stormy weather. A stubborn high pre...
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Intense Rainfall: Over 100mm in just 3 days over NSW
Aline Ribeiro, 05-MayThe advance of a trough across the north and center of the state spread clouds across the state and, together with humid onshore winds, intensified ins...
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Riverina's first rain in a month frustrates some, drenches others
Brett Dutschke, 04-MayRain and thunderstorms have been spreading across New South Wales, bringing the first rain in a month and evening drenching some areas, but it has been...
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Spooky spectre sighting west of Sydney
James Rout, 04-MayUnlike this weekend, last weekend was calm with light winds and clear skies across NSW, so I knew there would be fog in the valleys near Sydney on the ...
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Heaviest May rainfall in 82 years recorded in WA town
Ashleigh Madden, 03-MayParched areas of southwest WA have finally seen some rain this week, with Wandering recording its highest May rainfall in more than 82 years and the mo...
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Rain and storms spreading across NSW
Ben Domensino, 03-MayA three-day soaking has begun in NSW, with rain and thunderstorms expected to spread across most of the state over the next 72 hours. An upper-level ...
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Will another positive Indian Ocean Dipole brew in 2024?
Joel Pippard, 02-MaySigns are pointing to the second consecutive positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) developing in the next few months. However, May is shaping up to be a t...
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Rare rainless Agfest thanks to blocking high
Ben Domensino, 02-MayTasmania’s Agfest is enjoying an unusual run of dry, sunny and mild weather this week thanks to a big blocking high pressure system sitting over ...
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400km line of severe thunderstorms lashing southwest WA
Ashleigh Madden, 02-MayA line of severe thunderstorms is moving onshore towards the southwest of WA, which could produce heavy rainfall and large hail on Thursday morning. ...
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A very wet weekend ahead for NSW
Ashleigh Madden, 01-MayRainfall is set to intensify over the weekend and early next week, with hundreds of millimetres in just three days possible across parts of the central...
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Adelaide's driest February-to-April in 101 years
Ben Domensino, 01-MayAdelaide just had one of its driest February-to-April periods on record as stubborn high pressure continues to shield southern Australia from autumn ra...
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Rain arrives in Perth after driest seven months on record
Ben Domensino, 30-AprPerth just registered its driest October-to-April period on record despite a welcome burst of rain on Tuesday. Summer and the surrounding month...
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Australia's tropical cyclone season in satellite images
Ben Domensino, 30-AprImages captured by the Himawari-9 satellite over the past six months show the entire 2023-24 Australian tropical cyclone season in all its glory from s...
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Ruang volcano eruption causes explosion of lightning
Ben Domensino, 30-AprIndonesia’s Ruang volcano erupted early on Tuesday morning, sending a towering column of ash and lightning high into the night sky. After a per...
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NSW soaking has begun
Ashleigh Madden, 30-AprRain has begun falling across parts of NSW and it is here to stay for a while, with the potential for hundreds of millimetres to fall along the central...
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Decent rain en route to bone-dry southwest WA
Ashleigh Madden, 29-AprWelcome rain is coming to the parched southwest WA this week, possibly including Perth and Bunbury which are both having their driest 7 months on recor...
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Wet week ahead for eastern and southwestern Australia
Ben Domensino, 29-AprRain and thunderstorms will soak parts of eastern and southwestern Australia this week, bringing drought relief in WA and a risk of flooding in NSW. ...
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A quick look at our water storages
Stephen King, 28-AprGiven the largely clear skies across the country today, it’s a good opportunity to take a look at the water storages of Australia’s major c...
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Signs indicating Australia's cool season arrival
Quincy Tut, 27-AprMere hours after our Total Lightning Network went quiet over the Australian continent, the Himawari satellite captured a clear, textbook snapshot of th...
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Bonsoy Gold Coast Pro surf forecast
Felix Levesque, 27-AprAfter an emotional mid-year cut at the Margaret River Pro surf competition in Western Australia last week, surfers that fell below the cut line, along ...
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Uncontrolled WA fire causes massive smoke plume
Ben Domensino, 26-AprA bushfire burning out of control in the far southwest of WA has created a 700 km-long smoke plume that can be seen from space. The animation below w...
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Storms hitting WA as Perth's wait for rain continues
Ben Domensino, 26-AprDespite thunderstorms rumbling over WA today and more rain on the way next week, Perth’s nervous wait for decent rain could continue into May. ...
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Satellites capture huge dust storm crossing Mediterranean Sea
Ben Domensino, 25-AprImages captured from satellites have revealed the colossal scale of a dust storm that turned the sky orange in parts of Greece earlier this week. Sou...
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A digger's letter from snowbound Gallipoli
Anthony Sharwood, 25-AprIn weather terms, the Anzacs at Gallipoli copped it all – from parched, scorching summers to freezing winters as weather systems with origins in ...
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Summery Sydney, wintry Melbourne
Anthony Sharwood, 24-AprIt's been one of those days when Australia's two largest cities could hardly have been more different in terms of weather. Never mind the tedious old...
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Rainfall to soak some parched areas of WA
Ashleigh Madden, 24-AprRain will soak parts of WA over the coming week, although forecast models are struggling to agree on whether this burst of wet weather will bring much-...
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Tassie snow, Melbourne temps go low
Anthony Sharwood, 24-AprSnow has fallen in Tasmania, while Melbourne has experienced a dramatic temperature drop as a cold front whipped through Tasmania and southern Victoria...
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Australia's tropical cyclone season coming to an end
Ben Domensino, 23-AprThe 2023-24 Australian tropical cyclone season is almost over and while it was a quiet season based on overall numbers, some of the landfalling systems...
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Wind returning to southeastern Australia
Ashleigh Madden, 23-AprAfter a prolonged period of light winds, a surge of powerful winds and cool air will push through southeastern Australia during the next 48 hours....
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Anzac Day dawn service weather around Australia
Anthony Sharwood, 22-AprAnzac Day is this Thursday, so we thought we’d give you a brief weather forecast for each capital city for those attending the dawn service. An...
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Coldest April night in 25 years for SA towns
Weatherzone Staff, 22-AprThree South Australian towns have shivered through their coldest April night in 25 years as a near-stationary high pressure system centred over southea...
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Rain outlook for southwestern Australia
Ashleigh Madden, 22-AprMarch was a wet month for large areas of WA with several sites recording the highest daily rainfall on record, however the state’s southwest rema...
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Canberra's first sub-zero of the year
Quincy Tut, 21-AprWintry air descended across the southeast in the early hours of Sunday morning, bringing sub-zero temperatures to parts of the ACT and NSW, including C...
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Winter is Coming: Chilly day for Sydney, rain pelts eastern seaboard
Corine Brown, 20-AprJust as we forecast yesterday, a coastal trough has deepened along the NSW and southeast Qld coasts as a low in the Coral Sea continues to inch closer ...
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We need to talk about drainage
Stephen King, 20-AprBy now, you would have likely already seen the flooding that occurred in Dubai earlier this week. Many were quick to blame cloud seeding but that has s...
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A very wet weekend for southeast Qld, northeast NSW
Ashleigh Madden, 19-AprA prolonged rainfall event is set to bring large totals to parts of NSW and Qld from Saturday, with possible heavy falls and flooding. A low-pr...
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Southerly surges across the southeast
Anthony Sharwood, 19-AprIt's a chilly and showery end to the working week across southeastern Australia, after a strong surge of south to southeasterly winds pushed cool air a...
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Generation gone with the wind
Ashleigh Madden, 18-AprA weeklong stretch of low wind power was broken on Wednesday evening, as a weak cold front marched across southern Australia. The chart below s...
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Devilishly dry in Tasmania
Anthony Sharwood, 18-AprTasmania has had an exceptionally dry start to 2024, with rainfall deficiencies across the entire state as of mid-April. Take a look at the chart bel...
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Dubai deluge: a year's rainfall in a day
Anthony Sharwood, 17-AprFlights have been unable to land or take off from flooded runways, chunks of major roads have eroded away, while motorists have been trapped on inundat...
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Melbourne weather strongly out of character
Anthony Sharwood, 17-Apr"If you don’t like the Melbourne weather, just wait five minutes." So goes one of many sayings about Melbourne's famously changeable weather, w...
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BoM declares El Niño over
Ashleigh Madden, 16-AprThe Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared El Niño over and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is now inactive for the f...
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Darwin's hottest day of the year?
Anthony Sharwood, 16-AprDarwin could be heading for its hottest day of 2024 to date this Tuesday, with a top of 35°C on the cards and the potential to edge up towards 36&d...
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Perth storms drench some suburbs, leave others bone dry
Anthony Sharwood, 15-AprThe heavy rain that Perth residents are so desperately hoping for drenched some northern suburbs on Friday afternoon, but ultimately fizzled out in mos...
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No rain for most of Australia this week
Ashleigh Madden, 15-AprSolar output across large areas of Australia should peak this week, with many areas not expected to receive a drop of rain. The dry week across...
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Fog blankets Kalgoorlie
Quincy Tut, 14-AprA rare sight of fog graced Kalgoorlie in the early hours of Sunday morning, starting from around 5am, peaking just after 6am as the sun rose, and lifti...
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Perth's brief wet, the first rain in weeks
Brett Dutschke, 13-AprThe Perth area and surrounds had not recorded any rainfall in the past five-to-seven weeks but yesterday it finally arrived. Unfortunately, it mostly...
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Remarkably Unremarkable Weather
Stephen King, 13-AprIn a week where it seemed like the weather gods were working overtime, it now seems like they’re completely spent and have taken the weekend off....
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Growing signs of La Niña returning in 2024
Ashleigh Madden, 12-AprNew data released overnight gives La Niña nearly a 90% chance of returning this spring, as the ocean continues to cool in the tropical eastern P...
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Stunning images capture Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre filling
Ben Domensino, 12-AprSeeing Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre filling with water is like witnessing the lifeblood of Australia returning to the country’s heart, and that rare spe...
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Tropical Cyclone Paul forms in Australian region
Ben Domensino, 11-AprTropical Cyclone Paul has formed over the northeast Coral Sea and could reach category three intensity by Thursday afternoon. Paul formed in the earl...
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Jarrah trees dying in WA's big dry
Anthony Sharwood, 11-AprThis is the image that sums up the ongoing desperately dry spell in the southwest corner of Western Australia. The scene shows bushland at Morangup i...
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Gale force winds lashing the Pilbara
Ashleigh Madden, 10-AprEx-Tropical Cylone Olga is edging ever so slightly closer to the Pilbara on Wednesday, bringing damaging winds and rain to the far western Pilbara and ...
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Nine metre waves and 100 km/h winds hit NSW
Ben Domensino, 10-AprA powerful burst of southerly winds is causing massive waves to batter NSW beaches today, with warnings in place for damaging surf in some areas. A d...
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Autumn chill spreads north
Anthony Sharwood, 10-AprIt was a cold morning across southeastern Australia as you'd expect after the passage of an autumn cold front, with subzero readings in three states. ...
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Storms, damaging wind and large surf battering NSW
Ben Domensino, 09-AprA surge of showers, thunderstorms, damaging winds and powerful surf will continue to affect parts of eastern NSW over the next 24 hours. A strong and...
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Satellites and astronauts capture stunning solar eclipse
Ben Domensino, 09-AprSatellites and astronauts have captured the shadow of the Moon darting across Earth’s surface during Monday’s spectacular solar eclipse. ...
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First Aussie mainland snow of 2024
Anthony Sharwood, 09-AprSnow has fallen overnight in Australia's mainland ski resorts and continues to tumble down on Tuesday morning as a cold front sweeps across southeast A...
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Tropical Cyclone Olga to bring rain to parts of WA
Ashleigh Madden, 08-AprTropical moisture from Severe Tropical Cyclone Olga will bring rainfall to parts of the Pilbara and Gascoyne as it tracks parallel to their coastline t...
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When is Australia’s next total solar eclipse?
Ben Domensino, 08-AprA total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Mexico, the United States and Canada on Monday, April 8, 2024. Unfortunately for Aussies hoping to see...
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Powerful wind, swell returning for NSW
Ashleigh Madden, 08-AprThe balmy NSW weather will end abruptly on Tuesday as another low-pressure system brings another bout of fierce winds, thunderstorms, rain and coo...
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Olga to avoid Australian mainland
Quincy Tut, 07-Apr Western Australia has managed to steer clear of a time change back to standard time on Sunday morning, unlike the country's southeastern state...
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Stormy surf threatens Sydney beaches
Felix Levesque, 06-AprLarge and stormy surf overnight has ripped away large chunks of Sydney sandy beaches. Image: Large surf overnight caused significant b...
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Hawkesbury-Nepean River bursts banks amid western Sydney’s heaviest rain in over 30 years
Angus Konta, 06-AprThe recent deluges across eastern NSW has been filling up many of the region’s waterways. With more than triple the monthly average rain falling ...
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Major flood warnings in NSW, Queensland as deluge continues
Ben Domensino, 05-AprWarnings have been issued for major flooding in Queensland and NSW on Friday night and Saturday as heavy rain continues to inundate parts of eastern Au...
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Transport chaos as Sydney sees a month's rain in 30 hours
Ashleigh Madden, 05-AprThe deluge continues in Sydney and surrounds with a month's worth rain falling in just over a day, causing cancellation and delays across the city.&nbs...
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Tropical Cyclone Olga could develop this weekend
Ben Domensino, 05-AprThere is a high risk that Tropical Cyclone Olga will develop to the northwest of Australia this weekend. The satellite images below show a tropical l...
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Intense overnight rainfall, plenty more to come
Anthony Sharwood, 05-AprHeavy and remarkably widespread rain has fallen across New South Wales and southern Queensland overnight, with the heaviest falls centred on the Sydney...
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Seventh tropical cyclone of season possible this weekend
Ashleigh Madden, 04-AprThere are increasing signs that two tropical lows could develop over northern Australia in the next week, with one a high risk of developing into a tro...
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Black nor’easter to soak Sydney and surrounds
Ben Domensino, 04-AprA thick stream of dense clouds and heavy rain will soak Sydney and other areas of eastern NSW over the next three days, with damaging winds and hazardo...
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Desperately dry in southwest WA
Anthony Sharwood, 04-AprPatience is part of life, but locals in Perth and neaby parts of southwest Western Australia must be running out of it as skies just refuse to cloud ov...
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Solar booms as Adelaide records sunniest March in 30 years
Ashleigh Madden, 03-AprSouthern Australia saw an abundance of clear skies during March, causing rooftop solar to soar to new heights. The run of sunny days was caused...
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Australia's third wettest March on record
Ben Domensino, 03-AprAustralia just had one of its wettest and warmest Marches on record as the country experienced a climate juxtaposition of persistent late season heat a...
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East coast soaking on Friday
Joel Pippard, 03-AprHeavy rainfall of up to 300mm is expected this Friday and Saturday for southeast Queensland and eastern NSW, as a powerful cut-off low and a moisture-r...
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Wettest Melbourne day in four years after parched March
Anthony Sharwood, 02-AprWhat a turnaround in Melbourne weather. After the driest March in 170 years of records, Melbourne just had its heaviest day of April rain in 47 years a...
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Brisbane endures gloomiest month in two years
Brett Dutschke, 01-AprDespite a noticeably sunny end to March, the month still turned out to be the cloudiest in almost two years and the cloudiest March in 14 years in Bris...
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Meteorologists to combat AI with hand-drawn weather charts
Weatherzone Staff, 01-AprAustralian meteorologists will reinstate hand-drawn weather charts in 2024 to help people tell the difference between authentic human-made forecasts an...
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March 2024 status... very wet
Maryam Al-Ansari, 31-MarAt the end of the month, most of Australia is spending the long weekend with clear skies and calm weather. But this is not at all a reflection of what ...
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Kathi-Thanda Lake Eyre starting to fill
Anthony Sharwood, 31-MarKathi-Thanda Lake Eyre, the iconic salt basin which is Australia's lowest point at around 15 metres below sea level, is beginning to fill. The lake o...
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Bursting banks in the Northern Territory
Quincy Tut, 30-MarA vivid sight, and a telling sign of a hearty wet season. The cloud cleared late this week to reveal to satellites the abundant streamflow in the appro...
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Thunderstorms, and an early April soaking on the cards for southeast Australia
Angus Konta, 30-MarDust off the umbrellas, the rain is on the way for southeastern states early next week! The Easter weekend is looking picturesque across southe...
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Bad weather bitter news for chocolate prices
Anthony Sharwood, 30-MarFill your car boot with chocolate Easter eggs then drive back and get some more because chocolate prices are on the way up and appear likely to skyrock...
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Hello lovely long weekend!
Maryam Al-Ansari, 29-MarThe Easter long weekend is finally here! On Wednesday we told you about the rain event we’re expecting early next week (read more here), but let ...
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Exceptionally warm, dry March for parts of SA
Ben Domensino, 28-MarSoaring temperatures and abundantly clear skies have just caused one of the warmest and driest Marches on record in parts of South Australia. Abnorma...
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Easter deluge possible as tropical moisture moves south
Ashleigh Lange, 27-MarThe tropical moisture that caused significant flooding in the NT and Qld is set to move southeast over Easter, bringing heavy rainfall, thunderstorms a...
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Relentless rain rinses Brisbane
Anthony Sharwood, 26-MarIt's not so much the huge rainfall totals, although the numbers are definitely stacking up. What's remarkable about the current rainy spell in Brisbane...
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Smoke from WA bushfires visible from space
Ashleigh Lange, 26-MarSeveral fires are burning across southwest WA this week, with smoke plumes seen from 36,000km above the surface. A previously out-of-control b...
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Cold water deep in Pacific Ocean increases likelihood of La Niña
Ben Domensino, 26-MarA large pool of abnormally cold water sitting beneath the surface of the tropical Pacific Ocean is a clear sign that El Niño is on its last legs...
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Melbourne's driest March on record looking likely
Ben Domensino, 25-MarMelbourne has only had 2 mm of rain so far this month, and with little prospect of precipitation over the coming week, the city could be on track to re...
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Wet week ahead for Qld, NT
Ashleigh Lange, 25-MarHeavy rain and thunderstorms will continue in parts of Qld and the NT over the next few days, increasing the risk of flooding and outback road closures...
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Todd River flows after Alice Springs deluge
Anthony Sharwood, 25-MarJust look at all that water as the normally dry Todd River surges through Alice Springs after the iconic Northern Territory outback city received a thr...
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Forecast for the 2024 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach surf competition
Felix Levesque, 24-MarA relatively early Easter this year will make for a tricky outlook for the first World Surf League surf competition at Bells Beach. The ic...
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Alice Springs: A Month’s Rainfall in a Single Day
Aline Ribeiro, 23-MarThick clouds in the tropics, combined with humid, unstable air and the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Megan, are causing heavy rain over the Northern Ter...
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Fine weather for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne
Felix Levesque, 23-MarAfter the predictable weather (and winner) of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grands prix, Formula 1 will be looking to continue its fine spell of grand ...
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AI shows promising signs with Australian tropical cyclone forecast
Ben Domensino, 22-MarA new weather model powered by artificial intelligence has outperformed traditional weather models in predicting the location and strength of a potenti...
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A wet easter on the cards
Ashleigh Lange, 22-MarThere are early signs that parts of SA, the NT, NSW and Qld could get soaked on the Easter long weekend, as moisture left behind by ex-Tropical Cyclone...
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Perth's long frustrating wait for rain
Anthony Sharwood, 22-MarAs Perth and the southwest corner of Western Australia emerge from their traditional spring, summer, and early autumn dry season, the wait for decent r...
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