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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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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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