Australian Weather Forecast

For Friday

MinMax

National Summary

A weakening trough will bring showers to parts of southern and western WA. Onshore winds will send showers onto the Qld coast, western Tas, and coastal Vic. Otherwise dry under high pressure.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Friday

ELDERS NEWS

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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