Northern Australia is battening down the hatches as the weather bureau warns intensifying activity in the Coral Sea will likely result in the formation of Cyclone Kirrily.
El Nino and other factors make extreme weather events more difficult to predict, say scholars following scrutiny in the wake of destructive floods and storms.
Temperatures have plunged by an average 10C across NSW as the heatwave that gripped much of the state starts to wane while soaring temperatures in South Australia give way to flooding rain.
Heavy rainfall and widespread flooding across Australia's east coast from 2020 to 2022 was exacerbated by the Black Summer bushfires, a new study has found.
Reid, Campbell and Fadden were the ACT suburbs hardest hit by wild weather this summer, when over a third of all ACT home insurance claims were caused by severe weather, new claims data released by NRMA Insurance today reveals.
Residents of a northwest Queensland town are reluctantly leaving their water-logged homes behind, while emergency services warn that power is being cut to Burketown due to the flood risks there.Â
More than 60,000 homes and businesses were left without power and an international sailing tournament had to be cancelled after thunderstorms swept Sydney.
A national state of emergency has been declared in New Zealand after widespread damage from Cyclone Gabrielle, the country's worst storm in generations.
Residents of Australia's Norfolk Island are cleaning up after Cyclone Gabrielle, heading to New Zealand, battered the tiny external territory in the Pacific Ocean.
Cyclone Gabrielle has formed off the coast of Queensland with about 2200 people living on Norfolk Island battening down as the storm intensifies and barrels towards the Australian outpost.
New Zealand's government has announced additional funding to help rebuild flood-ravaged Auckland and other areas in the upper north island as residents of the country's second-largest city begin cleaning up.
