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Australia: Parts of Melbourne expected to reach 43 degrees C on Friday
UPDATED 8:54am — Melbourne is having a scorching end to the week with temperatures in the greater city expected to…
Tropics north of NZ fairly quiet for rest of January, stormier in northern Australia
The tropics directly north of New Zealand is much quieter compared to a year ago with no major storms likely…
Australia suffers as heatwave reaches its peak, melts roads, breaks records
An extreme heatwave already breaking records across Australia is expected to peak in many parts of the country Friday, with…
Scorching week for Australia’s interior, close to 50 degrees C
Much of Australia’s interior is to heat to the forties each day for a week, some parts hitting 45 degrees…
Green thunderstorms: there have been many theories behind the mysterious glow
In a festive twist to Sydney’s catastrophically expensive hailstorm Thursday night, the skies turned green. Pictures posted online of clouds…
Holiday heat to sweep across southern Australia
It’s going to be a sweaty summer break for a large swathe of southern and southeastern Australia as a pool…
Special Weather Video: Christmas Day, next week + the map for New Year’s Eve
In our final video of 2018 we track the series of rain makers drifting past New Zealand from the north…
Video: Severe Cyclone Owen aims for Queensland, while NZ has more thunderstorms
Cyclone Owen has reached ‘severe’ category 3 status and may reach 4 before making landfall in northern Australia and then…
Unusual Cyclone Owen now ‘severe’, flooding for Australia likely but storm unlikely to directly affect NZ (+6 Maps)
Cyclone Owen is now a Severe Category 3 Tropical Cyclone and Australian forecasters say it may peak at Category 4…
Cyclone Owen reforms, heavy rain coming for much of eastern Australia, likely weakens before NZ
Cyclone Owen has reformed and this time around may grow into a severe Category 3 storm before drifting back where…
