Mercury soars in Melbourne for Cup Day
The easing of lockdown restrictions has come at the right time for Melburnians to enjoy an unusual Cup Day – at least weather wise.
Weather
Enormous hail ‘hard to comprehend’
Southeast Queenslanders have been left with a big clean up and a mercifully calm forecast after being battered by ferocious storms for several days.
Wild weather forces counting to halt
Counting has been halted in 20 booths as a result of those monster storms that have lashed parts of Queensland.
Warning as huge hailstones smash towns
Severe storms brought lightning strikes, flash flooding and huge hailstones to parts of Queensland and NSW for a second day – and it’s not over.
Landslide forces residents to evacuate
Wild weather including torrential rain and damaging winds has triggered a landslide at a popular walking trail in Sydney’s north.
‘Badly smashed’: Thousands left powerless
Thousands of southeast Queensland residents are still without power after a weekend of wild weather, with more on the way.
2 million lightning strikes hit east coast
A woman has been hospitalised as severe storms and more than two million lightning strikes battered the nation during a weekend of wild weather.
Aussies not ready for wild weather
Suncorp warns an onslaught of looming wild weather this summer could blow out the nation’s natural disaster bill.
Storms to lash Sydney and Melbourne
At least three houses have been flooded in Melbourne as a burst of wild weather looks set to bring heavy rain and storms to the east coast.
Storms, dew forecast to hit Brisbane
This year’s AFL grand final will be like no other, with the players more likely to fatigue as Brisbane’s weather expected to make for difficult decider.
Megastorms to hit this weekend
Severe storms, damaging winds, hail and flash flooding – it’s set to be a wet and wild NRL grand final weekend in NSW.
‘Dam may spill’ as heavy rain hits
THE wild weather is far from over in Sydney and southern NSW, with a major dam full to bursting as another downpour begins.
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