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Warm start to the week in southern Australia

11:19 AEDT Parts of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania will experience a burst of warm weather at the start of this week, briefly increasing fire danger ratings in some areas.
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How hot oceans affect the upcoming Australia tropical cyclone season

16:44 AEDT Globally, ocean temperatures are at record levels for the second consecutive year, and this has played a part in creating one of the costliest hurricane seasons on record in the North Atlantic.
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Sunshine State sizzles

16:49 AEDT A heatwave has commenced in Queensland.   Temperatures were unseasonably warm in the Sunshine State last night, and it's only just the beginning of a heatwave that will affect Queensland for about the next week.
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Rain relief for parched parts of Victoria

11:59 AEDT Heavy rain has fallen in parts of eastern SA, northern and western Victoria, and southern and western NSW as storms rumbled through overnight, while storms lashed Melbourne just after 9am Friday.
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South Australia?s highest October temperature in 29 years

16:19 AEDT Coober Pedy has just registered South Australia’s highest October temperature in nearly three decades as blustery winds whip up a huge dust storm in the state’s north.
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200 thousand lightning strikes with lots more to come

11:15 AEDT Thunderstorms were rumbling across six Australian states on Thursday morning following a barrage of nighttime lightning that produced more than 200,000 strikes across the country.
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1000-kilometre rainband soaks WA coast

14:58 AEDT Heavy rain is falling on the Western Australian coastline in a rainband stretching nearly 1000 kilometres from south of Perth to Ningaloo Reef in the Gascyone forecast district.
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Negative IOD signal emerging in Indian Ocean

12:15 AEDT Sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean suggest that a negative phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) may be emerging, which could influence Australian weather patterns in the coming months.
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Destructive storms and record-challenging heat in Australia this week

13:02 AEDT Australia will endure a dynamic mix of extreme weather this week, with intense thunderstorms generating destructive winds in multiple states and record-challenging heat in the outback.
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Heat waving bye-bye to Australia's Top End

17:04 AEDT A heatwave affecting the Northern Territory's Top End for the past week or so is fizzling out, effectively farewelling residents and allowing them some recovery.
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Spring heat on the horizon

13:08 AEDT An unseasonably hot airmass will linger across parts of southern Australia next week, with temperatures set to reach the 40s across Australia's interior and the low 30s in some capital cities.
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Why has Hurricane Milton spawned tornadoes?

16:59 AEDT Hurricanes and tornadoes are two totally different types of weather phenomena involving swirling destructive winds – hurricanes on a macro scale, tornadoes on a micro scale – so why have the two occurred in unison as Hurricane Milton lashes Florida? The answer is that under the right conditions, hurricanes can produce exactly the type of extreme weather conditions which are conducive to tornado formation.
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Giant hail and intense rain lash Qld, NSW

16:32 AEDT Severe thunderstorms have formed over parts of Qld and NSW this afternoon, with reports of hail around 7cm in diameter, intense rainfall and flooding and damaging winds.  The combination of a surface and upper-level trough and moisture-laden easterly winds are triggering severe thunderstorms across southeastern Qld and northeastern NSW.  The images below show the severe thunderstorms across the region on Wednesday afternoon.
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2024/25 tropical cyclone season outlook and names

09:40 AEDT The number of tropical cyclones in the Australian region is expected to be close to the long-term average in the official season which runs from the start of November to the end of April, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Spring in full swing across Australia

13:53 AEDT A quintessentially spring-like week is upon Australia, with a contrasting mix of thunderstorms in Queensland and Western Australia, cold and snow in Tasmania, heat in the Northern Territory and rain possibly developing in the southeast.
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Florida bracing for Hurricane Milton

16:54 AEDT Less than 2 weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated multiple southeastern U.S.
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Zinc cream, hats, cardigans all bound for NRL Grand Final

12:07 AEDT Eighty-odd thousand fans heading to today's NRL Grand Final at Sydney's Olympic Park would benefit from bringing zinc cream, a hat and a cardigan (all in team colours of course) to protect from the afternoon sun then the evening's cooling wind.
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Heat intensifying early in Australia's northwest

15:04 AEST Heat has been intensifying early for this time of year in Australia's northwest this past week and is expected to continue doing so, prompting heatwave warnings.
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Don't make this common daylight saving mistake

10:40 AEST Daylight saving starts this weekend in NSW, Victoria, the ACT, South Australia and Tasmania, with clocks instantly ticking forward to 3 am at 2am on Sunday.
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Severe weather bearing down on South Australia

11:17 AEST A line of thunderstorms stretching more than 800 kilometres is rapidly crossing South Australia, as a strong cold front impacts the state.
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Record September rain and warm nights in WA

09:47 AEST Parts of northwest WA saw the warmest minimum temperatures and highest rainfall on record in September, with a mean of nearly 6°C above average recorded at Port Hedland.
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Warm start to the week in southern Australia

11:19 AEDT Parts of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania will experience a burst of warm weather at the start of this week, briefly increasing fire danger ratings in some areas.