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Australia weather

August 2024

  • SES uniform

    Record-breaking downpours in eastern Australia put emergency services on high alert

    Parts of the Queensland coast copped a battering into Wednesday of more than 100mm in less than six hours
  • Aurora Australis Appearance August 2024, Melbourne, Austrailia - 12 Aug 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Chris Putnam/REX/Shutterstock (14633647e) Increased solar activity results in the Aurora Australis being visible in southerly areas of Australia. This image taken from near Blind Bight in Melbourne, Australia on August 12 2024. Aurora Australis Appearance August 2024, Melbourne, Austrailia - 12 Aug 2024

    Southern lights continue to light up skies above parts of Australia and New Zealand

    The magenta, amethyst and ruby aurora australis was spotted from Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand’s South Island
  • Portrait of a man wearing a beanie, scarf and woollen gloves shivering from cold inside his home

    Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame

    Reena Gupta
    I work from home with a hot-water bottle on my lap, wearing a dressing gown over my many layers of clothes. We do what we’ve got to do

July 2024

  • Red, orange and yellow night sky from the aurora australis (southern lights) over water

    Technicolour skies glow across Australia and NZ as solar flares trigger aurora australis

  • People walking in Melbourne, Australia

    Melbourne and Sydney record same morning temperature – but in one city it felt near freezing

  • Mount Buller Victoria

    You’re not imagining it – eastern Australia is much colder than normal for this time of year

  • Chris Minns

    NSW Labor rejects conference motion to repeal anti-protest and youth bail laws – as it happened

  • Australia news live
    Nine Entertainment journalists vote for industrial action – as it happened

  • Queensland cold snap sends temperatures plummeting below Melbourne’s in more than 80 places

  • Massive snowfall brings ‘super thick fresh powder snow’ to Australia’s alpine areas – video

  • ‘Magical wintry scenes’: snow ‘just keeps coming’ at Australian ski resorts

  • Australia news live
    CrowdStrike has ‘issued a fix’ to Windows outage – as it happened

  • Quickly moving cold front could bring ‘most significant snowfall of the year’, as Australia’s east coast battles bitter winds

  • When the weather forecast says it’s 13C but it ‘feels like’ 11C, what exactly does it mean?

    Nick Miller

  • Snow falls at Queensland lodge for first time in nearly a decade - video

  • Queenslanders melt with delight as snow spotted for ‘a few minutes’ north of NSW border

  • Damaging wind and rain lash Victoria overnight with snow flurries reported in NSW

  • Australia news live
    Band’s gig postponed amid deportation call – as it happened

  • The rural network
    Antarctic blast brings damaging winds and alpine blizzards to Victoria and NSW and possible snow in Queensland

  • Snowfall possible in northern NSW as low pressure brings Antarctic blast to southern Australia

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