Thursday November 30, 2023
10:45 AEDT
The national capital is up to 134.2 mm of rainfall for November 2023, and indeed that will now be the official monthly total, as any rain that falls this Thursday will fall in the 24-hour total to 9 am Friday December 1, which means it counts as December rainfall.
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Wednesday November 29, 2023
16:28 AEDT
A broad arc of dangerous thunderstorms is moving over eastern Australia this afternoon, prompting severe storm warnings from central Qld to southern NSW.
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10:44 AEDT
Extremely heavy and in some cases record-breaking rain has fallen across New South Wales in the 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday, with 351 mm falling at one South Coast location.
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Tuesday November 28, 2023
09:51 AEDT
For the second time this month, Adelaide and nearby parts of South Australia have received significant rainfall in excess of 20 mm, this time accompanied by storms and lightning.
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Monday November 27, 2023
11:34 AEDT
The wet November looks likely to continue in eastern parts of the country this week and the map illustrates the situation quite dramatically.
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Saturday November 25, 2023
14:12 AEDT
The heat is being turned up for places like Perth and Bunbury today and tomorrow after a somewhat milder day yesterday.
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Friday November 24, 2023
09:15 AEDT
The hot and dry weather associated with El Niño should persist into Autumn next year as the event continues to strengthen.
El Niño was officially declared by the Bureau of Meteorology in September on the back of three consecutive La Nina years.
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Thursday November 23, 2023
15:06 AEDT
Nearly 100mm in one hour, including 36mm in 10 minutes, has poured down on the small northern Queensland town of Georgetown overnight with an intense thunderstorm.
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Wednesday November 22, 2023
17:34 AEDT
Just take a look at that 4 pm Wednesday national radar.
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Tuesday November 21, 2023
17:15 AEDT
They named the small outback NSW town of Lightning Ridge for a reason, and you'd better believe that reason was the weather.
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Monday November 20, 2023
17:16 AEDT
There's nothing too unusual about a burst of heat for Perth and nearby areas with summer almost upon us, but this week's heat will be intense by November standards.
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Sunday November 19, 2023
09:31 AEDT
A long period southerly groundswell impacted the NSW coastline last week, leading to hazardous surf warnings, yet the wave height remained relatively small.
Huge waves generated from powerful storms a long distance away, like deep lows to the south of Australia in the Southern Ocean, propagate away from these strong wind areas as swell.
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Saturday November 18, 2023
11:47 AEDT
Heat is brewing over WA’s north and will intensify and expand down along the west coast during the coming week.
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Thursday November 16, 2023
15:28 AEDT
As temperatures continue to soar in western Sydney, councils and local government have set up centres to keep locals cool this summer.
Penrith in Sydney’s west was momentarily dubbed the hottest place on Earth when it recorded a temperature of 48.9°C on January 4, 2020.
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Wednesday November 15, 2023
12:05 AEDT
Rain and thunderstorms will continue to soak large areas of central and eastern Australia during the coming week, with potential for substantial rain in Qld stating this weekend.
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Tuesday November 14, 2023
14:10 AEDT
Any way you look at it, it's a long way from Mt Kosciuszko to Uluru.
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Monday November 13, 2023
13:49 AEDT
A fire that destroyed buildings and stranded residents in Dolphin Sands on Sunday night has continued to burn into Monday, forcing the Tasmania Fire Service to reissue an emergency warning.
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Sunday November 12, 2023
10:58 AEDT
After an already active start to the tropical cyclone season in the South Pacific, we will see another system developing this week, coming close the main group of Fijian islands.
A tropical disturbance (identified as TD02F) located to the north of Vanuatu is forecast to deepen and intensify over the coming days, possibly reaching a category 1 or 2 tropical cyclone on Monday or Tuesday.
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Saturday November 11, 2023
09:11 AEDT
Melbourne’s thermometer was sitting at 24.7°C at midnight last night, a hot night indeed, but the city is expecting a mild day with a forecast temperature at midday below 20°C.
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