Tag: Australia weather

Be prepared for any weather with our daily forecast for Australia.

Australians' love for their harsh land has been pushed to breaking point as flood, hail and dust follow the fires.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Seven of Australia’s ten warmest years have occurred since 2005, with just one cooler than average year in the last decade (2011), highlighting how warmer than average temperatures now dominate Australia’s climate.

South-east Queensland and northern NSW cop a lashing in the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie, forcing schools and businesses to close and leaving over 50,000 homes without power.

"We need to understand we are going to get lots of reports of damage and injury, if not death, and we need to be prepared for that," Police Commissioner tells Queenslanders.

Natural disaster zone likely to be declared in central NSW. Damage already into tens of millions with further heavy rain expected later this week.

WATCH: Here's a crash course in the truth about Australia.

WATCH: Some raw Australian emotion over the breaking of a drought.

WATCH: The moment cyclonic gusts swept through a Brisbane backyard, hoisting the kids' tramp up in to the air like a piece of rice paper.

Hail stones as big as cricket balls pound the NSW coast, covering towns and beaches in white.

Queensland and NSW deluged as storms and flooding ravage coast again.

STORMS: An Aussie knight in a black wetsuit jumped on his surfboard to save five stranded horses.

Hundreds of south-west Sydney residents evacuated their houses due to flooding across Sydney after severe storms.

Sydney brollie apocalypse: rest in pieces, dear umbrellas.

Storms in Australia: now, that's what we call a house boat!

The Carnival Spirit ocean liner is unable to make port in Sydney due to huge storms.

Sydney is currently experiencing the biggest storm of the century. While the Bureau of Meteorology earlier indicated that conditions would ease, it is expected that conditions will be just as bad, possibly worse, tonight.

IMAGE OF THE DAY: Check out this photo of a bloke being blown sideways at Sydney's Bondi Beach during the wild weather. Is it legit?

WATCH: Wild weather tosses Sydney ferry and roles a cruise liner. It's enough to turn your stomach.

NSW battered by severe weather leaving three dead, over 200,000 homes without power and several washed away.

WATCH: This fascinating 90-second timelapse video is the result of an entire year spent capturing the majesty of Australia’s skies.

What's that? A cyclone? Pfft. It's only category five on the whatever scale. Surf's up!

Cyclone Marcia downgraded to a category 1 system, but not before Rockhampton and Yeppoon suffer worst of her fury.

WATCH: Dramatic footage of Fitzroy River, swollen by Cyclone Marcia, pounding through Rockhampton.

The cyclone off Australia’s eastern coast is now predicted to be of the highest level intensity when it makes landfall.

The tropical cyclone heading for Queensland now a category 3 and could be category 4 when it crashes into the coast on Friday morning.

What Australia will look like in 2090 if climate change goes unchecked, according to a new report by the CSRIO and the Bureau of Meteorology.

Looks like a storm is brewing: In Australia, we love our freakish weather. Mother Nature has a tendency to lose her temper Down Under and will leave you gasping for air.

Australia experienced its 15th hottest summer since records began in 1910, while the summer before was the hottest ever.

South Australia's five-day heatwave is drawing to a close with cooler temperatures forecast for the weekend.

Nowhere has been spared from the start of Victoria's record-breaking heatwave, with some residents enduring 46C.

Police in Australia are investigating a series of incidents involving men with very little clothing terrorising members of the public.

Summer has made its presence known in Australia's southeast, ushering in scorching temperatures and prompting fire bans across the region.