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Polar blast to engulf eastern Australian states

A cold polar airmass is engulfing eastern Australia and bringing snow to the Great Dividing Ranges.
A weather map showing polar winds over Tasmania.
Duration: 11 seconds

Snowy night ahead for NSW with first flakes in years to settle along the ranges

After an unprecedented year without snow in 2023, elevated parts of NSW are finally turning white.
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three wild horses stand under trees speckled with snow at barrington tops in nsw's hunter valley

Snow flurries expected to fall in parts of Queensland as state shivers through cold snap

Queenslanders are shivering through a cold snap, with the weather bureau predicting more low temperatures and a chance of snow later this week.
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Frosty landscape.

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Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds

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Conditions ground rescue helicopter as wet weather lashes parts of Tasmania

Weather conditions have stopped a helicopter rescue of two adults and a child who called for help from a Tasmanian national park on Sunday, as authorities urge the public to stay up to date with warnings.
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Woman walks through the rain with an umbrella in autumn.

The days are getting longer but this is the coldest time of the year

Despite the varying climate, the capitals – outside of Darwin – all have one thing in common. They've just shivered through what is historically their coldest week on the calendar. So does it mean the worst of the cold weather is now over?
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frost blankets the roadside in Needles, Tasmania

Intense winter storm to bring heavy rain, gales, bitter cold and snow to eastern Australia

A rapidly deepening low-pressure system in the Tasman Sea will track towards the coast this weekend, the precursor to a bout of severe winter weather across eastern Australia.    
drak grey skies over a field with wind farms in taralga north of goulburn new south wales

Huge waves to form along southeast coasts from low pressure system

Huge waves are likely along south-east Australian coasts from Sunday thanks to a vigorous low pressure system.
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A weather map showing predicted ocean swells with particular intensity of the south-east Australian coast.
Duration: 9 seconds

Tasman low to drive gales and heavy rain across southeast Australia

A Tasman low will drive gales and heavy rain across southeast Australia from Sunday.
A weather map shows a low system off the east coast of Tasmania.
Duration: 12 seconds

Polar air driven north by deep southerly airstream

Polar air is driven well north this week by a deep southerly airstream between a Tasman low and high near WA.
A weather map of a polar air stream in south-east Australia.
Duration: 11 seconds

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Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

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Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds

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Woman's death from falling tree branch 'may have been preventable', court hears

Judith Ditter was travelling with her daughter and two others along an Adelaide hills road when a heavy tree branch fell on the vehicle and killed her. A coronial inquest has begun, with the court hearing better investigation and management of the tree may have saved her life.
A large tree limb on top of a car with emergency crew standing by.

Hurricane Beryl leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

Hurricane Beryl tears across the Atlantic Ocean, leaving at least 11 people dead in the Caribbean and three in the US state of Texas.
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A man in a pink shirts walks in front of blue and white boats tilted in all directions.

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Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

Weather in 90 seconds

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Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds