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Bondi Icebergs on Bondi Beach has been closed after it was damaged by dangerous surf conditions. Bondi Beach, Sydney. April 2, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

‘Bent like butter’: Bondi Icebergs damaged after swells battered Sydney beaches

Huge swells have hammered the city’s beaches, damaging walkways and inundating footpaths.

  • Riley Walter and Daniel Lo Surdo

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Rain, wind and a big swell, Bondi Beach. March 30, 2025. Photo Edwina Pickles SMH

Search for man missing in floodwaters as severe weather hits Sydney

Rescuers are searching for a man whose car was swept away west of Taree as authorities say some communities could be trapped by floodwater for six weeks.

  • Clare Sibthorpe and Angus Dalton
Jess Johnston enjoys St Patricks Day at the Rocks under the shadow of the Harbour Bridge in stiffingly hot conditions. Jess has lived in Sydney for 5.5 years now but is originally from Dublin, Ireland. Sydney, 16 March 2025. Photo Jessica Hromas

‘Water, and Guinness’: How Sydneysiders fought the autumn heatwave

As Sydney endured a brutally hot, dry and windy Sunday, one group turned to a traditional way to manage the heat.

  • Julie Power, Angus Thomson and Kayla Olaya
Sydney is bracing for its hottest day in March for the year on Sunday.

Sydney’s CBD, east braces for weather as hot as the west

Inner Sydney is set to reach 37 degrees on Sunday, possibly exceeding temperatures in parts of the west due to an unusual weather phenomenon.

  • Kayla Olaya
SMH NEWS. Morning sunrise, hot weather, Clovelly March 14, 2025. Photo: Max Mason-Hubers

Sydney set to swelter as summer stretches on

Temperatures will climb almost 10 degrees above average in Sydney this weekend before a southerly buster-like cool change sweeps through the city.

  • Riley Walter
A council worker checks on the Wilsons River height at the Browns Creek pump station in Lismore on Saturday.

Emergency ‘not over’ with new flood warnings issued across NSW

Areas of Lismore are already flooded, with rising water inching closer to breaching the city’s levee as the SES calls Saturday “D-Day” for the state.

  • Amber Schultz
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Evacuation orders have been issued as Tropical Cyclone Alfred edges towards land.

Evacuation orders extended as Alfred bears down on northern NSW

Areas from the Tweed on the far north coast, inland at Lismore, and as far south as Port Macquarie are subject to the orders as Cyclone Alfred edges closer.

  • Riley Walter and Amber Schultz
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‘Three natural disaster events in one’: Northern NSW braces for Cyclone Alfred

Evacuation centres have been set up, flights cancelled and schools closed as the category 2 storm moves towards land.

  • Riley Walter and Kayla Olaya
Forecast accumulated rain over the seven days ending on Sunday, March 9.

Panic buying, giant waves as Cyclone Alfred barrels towards coast

The oncoming cyclone sparked panic buying on both sides of the border, while surfers made the most of the storm swell at popular beaches on the Gold Coast and at Byron Bay.

  • Riley Walter
Heating Australia: Average temperatures from 1910 to 2024

Heatwaves, fires, torrential rain, fish kills: Australia’s summer of climate extremes

The weather bureau is forecasting a hot autumn across most of Australia, after an unusually hot summer marked by natural disasters.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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