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The Stay Gold Melbourne music venue on Wednesday night.

Melbourne weather: Wild winds cause havoc as wall blows off Brunswick music venue

Wild weather is causing chaos across Melbourne, with a pedestrian injured after a six-metre section of wall came off a venue in the inner north.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Lachlan Abbott

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People braving the cold weather on the St Kilda foreshore.

We were promised a warm winter. So why is it so cold?

If you believe the weather bureau, Australia is expecting a warm, wet winter. If you believe your own senses when stepping outside, it is distinctly chilly.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The cold snap crossing the country added 26 centimetres to the storm total at Mount Buller as of Sunday morning. 

Mass car rescue on Mount Hotham as farmers welcome the rain

Specialised alpine search and rescue units used sleds to rescue people trapped in their cars on Mount Hotham because of a snow dump over the weekend.

  • Alexander Darling, Benjamin Preiss and Cassandra Morgan
SES Bright and Falls Creek unit volunteers helped police with the rescue of people stuck in their vehicles near Hotham Heights.

More than 13 people rescued at Hotham Heights as snow, much-needed rain hit Victoria

The alpine region had the heaviest ski season opening-weekend snowfall in years.

  • Caroline Schelle and Roy Ward
A fresh blanket of snow arrived just in time for the opening of the ski season in Falls Creek.

Double joy as drought-breaking rain arrives and snow covers the alps

Wintry weather is forecast to extend into next week, bringing relief to farmers across the state and solid snowfalls for the start of ski season.

  • Hannah Hammoud
A jogger runs with her dog at Carlton’s Princes Park on the first day of winter.

Snow dump forecast for slopes as cold snap to hit Victoria

Heavy snows are expected this weekend, but the weather bureau says the wet and windy conditions won’t be great for snow sports.

  • Alexander Darling
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Duncan Barber on his parched property near Redesdale.

‘Seemingly endless fire season’ predicted for Victoria this winter

Climate scientists say “warmer than normal” predictions are “defined against a normal that was in the past”.

  • Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The dust storm arrived in Mildura mid-afternoon.

Damaging winds follow ‘unusual’ dust storm in Victoria

The State Emergency Service told residents to close doors and windows and remain indoors when the storm arrived.

  • Alexander Darling and Aisha Dow
The rainfall outlook for winter 2025.

The intensifying climate driver behind the coastal deluges and inland drought

The odds are good for a wet winter, prolonging the sodden autumn on the east coast, but bringing relief for the drought-stricken inland.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
May is setting temperature records across Melbourne.

Melbourne’s wild temperature swings smash decades-long records

Thongs one day to thermals the next, May is breaking weather records across the state and putting Melburnians’ wardrobes to the test.

  • Hannah Hammoud

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