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Sydney's hottest March night in 110 years

11:33 AEDT Sydney has sweated through its hottest March night in 110 years, after the mercury stayed above 25.9°C during the night.
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No significant rain relief for parched SA

14:09 AEDT There's no shortage of images showing how desperately dry southern and eastern parts of South Australia have been lately.
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Intense burst of autumn heat to scorch NSW, Victoria and SA

11:07 AEDT A sweltering inland air mass will filter across southeastern Australia on Sunday, bringing scorching autumn heat.  This heat will be drawn from the Australian interior by a broad low pressure trough and cold front crossing the country’s southeast, leading to increasingly hot temperatures into the weekend.
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Temperatures to plummet in autumn cold snap

12:14 AEDT The coming weekend heat will seem like a distant memory by early next week across Tasmania and the southeast mainland, as a cold front ushers in autumn’s first burst of chilly weather.
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Rain and storms to increase over northern Australia

16:03 AEDT A late-season surge of tropical moisture will cause an increase in rain and thunderstorms over northern Australia in mid-to-late March, along with an elevated risk of tropical cyclone activity near Australia.
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Alfred delivers one metre of rain in five days

15:42 AEDT Rainfall observations from the past five days have revealed that parts of southeast Queensland received more than one metre of rain during Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s protracted landfall.
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Torrential rain as Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred marches inland

16:00 AEDT Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall at about 8pm AEST on Saturday evening, and is now pushing inland, producing relentless heavy rain as it goes.
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Another wild night ahead as Alfred approaches southeast Queensland

17:25 AEDT Heavy rain and powerful winds will batter parts of southeast Queensland and northeast NSW on Friday night into Saturday morning as Tropical Cyclone Alfred edges closer to the coast.
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Perth's first autumn 40°C in 13 years

19:22 AEDT Perth reached 40.3°C this Thursday, the first time the WA capital has topped 40°C in autumn since March 12, 2012.
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Atmospheric gravity waves off WA coast

11:44 AEDT While Australia's weather focus is on Tropical Cyclone Alfred just off the southeast Queensland coast, a remarkable phenomenon occurred overnight at the opposite end of the country.
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NSW to feel the aftermath of Alfred this weekend

15:38 AEDT While southeast Qld is bracing for dangerous weather from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, large areas of NSW are also expected to see heavy rain that may cause flooding in the coming days.  The video below shows Alfred crossing the coast near or to the south of Brisbane and rapidly weakening over land to a tropical low as it moves west.
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Tropical Cyclone Alfred to intensify before landfall

11:08 AEDT Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which is bearing down on Queensland’s southeast coast as a category two system, is expected to intensify before making landfall on Thursday night.
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Why Tropical Cyclone Alfred is about to hook a huge right turn

11:16 AEDT For the past few days, the track map for Tropical Cyclone Alfred has shown the storm steadily tracking southeast, several hundred kilometres offshore in a path roughly parallel with the Queensland coastline, before making a sharp right-hand turn towards land.
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Southern Australia faces high fire danger this autumn

15:49 AEDT Australia just recorded its second hottest summer, with southern Australia continuing to experience drought heightening fire risk in autumn.  The Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council (AFAC) released their autumn bushfire outlook for 2025 on Thursday, February 27, showing an increased fire risk stretching the coastline from Carnarvon in WA down towards the Gippsland in Vic.  The red shading on the map below shows areas that have an increased risk of fires over the next three months.
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Australia's 2nd-hottest summer on record, WA's hottest

12:04 AEDT Australia has just sweated through its second-hottest summer since national records were first kept in 1910, while it was the hottest summer on record in Western Australia.
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Northern Australia faces record autumn heatwave

10:12 AEDT Temperatures have exceeded 45°C in parts of the country during the first day of autumn, with the Northern Territory’s autumn record falling as a heatwave continues.  A severe to extreme heatwave is affecting the northern Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and western Queensland, while easing over northeast South Australia.
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Scorching heatwave to kick off autumn in northern Australia

15:44 AEDT Temperatures are forecast to exceed 45°C in parts of northern Australia during the opening days of autumn, possibly getting close to the country’s seasonal maximum temperature record.
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Record heat for Alice Springs

15:08 AEDT Autumn is almost upon us, but no one told the Central Australian weather gods, where an ongoing heatwave will likely generate the hottest autumn temperature in Alice Springs since records began at the current site in 1940.
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Rare trio of tropical cyclones in South Pacific

11:28 AEDT Satellites have captured a rare sight of three tropical cyclones spinning simultaneously over the South Pacific Ocean this week.
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Will Tropical Cyclone Alfred hit Queensland?

11:23 AEDT With Tropical Cyclone Alfred now spinning over the Coral Sea as a category two system and strengthening, many Queenslanders are asking one question: will it hit Queensland? The short answer to this question is that it is possible, but meteorologists can’t make the call either way just yet.
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Two cyclones swirling near Australia

11:40 AEDT Tropical Cyclone Alfred and Bianca formed near Australia on Sunday, with the first severe cyclone of the season possible in the Coral Sea.  The image below shows Bianca over the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia and Alfred in the Coral Sea to the east of Qld.
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Sydney's hottest March night in 110 years

11:33 AEDT Sydney has sweated through its hottest March night in 110 years, after the mercury stayed above 25.9°C during the night.