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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

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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
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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Walkers enjoy the warm weather – and the autumn leaves – at the Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.

Melbourne hits hottest April day since 2014

And the warm weather is set to return later in the week.

  • Roy Ward
A flooded street in Seaford after Thursday night’s storm.

‘A couple of streets are under water’: Melbourne’s Bayside hit with flash flooding

Heavy rain on Thursday night flooded areas of Frankston and Seaford, while thunderstorms continue in Victoria’s north.

  • Alexander Darling
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
The Little Desert fire has burnt more than 90,000 hectares, or two-thirds of the national park.

Grampians residents warned to evacuate, cool change brings city relief

Eleven towns in Victoria’s west are at risk from a bushfire burning out of control near the Grampians, as the winds that carried a cool change to Melbourne brought new threats for firefighters.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Alexander Darling and Angus Delaney

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