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Bronte, people enjoying the warm weather.

More summer weather is coming this autumn, but not everyone’s looking forward to it

Experts say a warmer-than-average April means there are more beach days to come. But will the sun linger long enough to bless our long weekend with good weather?

  • Kayla Olaya

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NEWS: A large 3800 ha hazard reduction burn commences in Linden in the Blue Mountains. The Rural Fire Service, in partnership with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Fire and Rescue NSW, will be conducting critical hazard reduction burns across the state in the coming days. April 9th, 2025, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Sydney shrouded in smoke, health warnings as air quality plunges

More than 6000 hectares are being burned as authorities catch up on delayed hazard reductions.

  • Riley Walter
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
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
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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
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

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