Floating posts lighten flood burden
IN RURAL and regional communities, the impacts of ongoing weather extremes are often hardest felt.
IN RURAL and regional communities, the impacts of ongoing weather extremes are often hardest felt.
THE latest wet weather has generally been good news for farmers as storages are replenished and paddocks get a good soaking.
PARTS of Victoria have recorded more than their annual average rain, with five months of the year still remaining.
LANDOWNERS downstream of the Hume Dam are being warned to start preparing for a flood, with a spill this month a possibility.
THE scars of drought in Victoria have been swamped by flood warnings in the past week.
WET, wild and wintry conditions soaked country footy grounds on the weekend.
THERE were some good falls of rain across western Victoria last night.
RESIDENTS around the central NSW town of Canowindra are bracing for flooding as the Belubula River nears its peak.
MORE rain is still needed to improve water allocations for Victorian irrigators.
A CARPET of snow surrounding the faux medieval Kryal Castle near Ballarat has been spectacularly captured using a drone by Higher Perspective Photography.
GET out your oilskin and gumboots, southeast Australia is in for a wet couple of weeks.
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IN JUST 24 hours, Rod Cope went from having an average on-farm water supply to a near overflowing dam.
A DUST storm battered Mildura as snow began to blanket other parts of Victoria.
FARMS in parts of Victoria are awash after heavy rain last week turned grass into mud and flooded low-lying vegetable crops.
A TIN roof has been blown off a house, a trailer detached from a truck and large trees ripped from their roots as wild winds blast Victoria.
TASMANIANS can expect some school holiday snow fun with falls reaching almost to sea level as the result of a cold front approaching from the west.
SNOW has been forecast for the Adelaide Hills and the mid north of South Australia as severe weather moves across the state.
RESIDENTS in some of the biggest cities in Australia are likely to see snow this week as gusty Antarctic winds hit and temperatures plummet.
A MAJOR flood level warning has been issued for a Victorian river at risk of bursting its banks due to heavy rain.
RAIN totals of up to 20mm are possible for the northern Wimmera on the weekend.
LATEST: A QUICK thinking farmer on a jetski has rescued a family stuck in rising flood waters in Orbost this morning.
ASHLEY and Brenda Lynch and their sons Brady and Cooper frolic in Grampians snow, which has finally fallen after a warm start to the season.
MILK production in Tasmania is not expected to take a huge hit immediately due to the recent floods, but authorities are unsure about flow-on effects.
RECORDS have tumbled with parts of southeast Australia receiving four times more rain than normal this month.
SOUTHERN Mallee farmers are understandably anxious about having enough water to sow their crops this season.
THE rain outlook for autumn and winter is tipped to be average or slightly wetter than average across Victoria.
SUMMER may officially be over, but no one has told Mother Nature.
ST ARNAUD appears to have received the best of Victoria’s overnight rain totals with 20mm.
BRAD and Deb Hocking spotted this monster willy-willy near the You Yangs when they were driving from Bacchus Marsh to Geelong last week.
SOME long range forecasts are now suggesting a wetter La Nina climate may influence Victoria’s weather this winter.
DROUGHT will break across most of Victoria in autumn, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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DROUGHT-hit eastern Australia is, surprisingly, coming out of a long, wet phase.
THE current El Nino weather pattern has not lived up to its “Godzilla” status as it continues to show signs of weakening.
THE strongest El Nino in more than a decade is continuing to weaken.
GIPPSLAND recorded big rain totals yesterday, with the Latrobe Valley receiving 50mm in overnight storms.
FARMERS have cautiously welcomed good rain across southeast Australia.
A WET summer is becoming the norm for the Mitchell family.
ARARAT has already received 22mm of rain today as thunderstorms continue to batter Victoria.
RAIN is continuing to fall in the northeast of Victoria, with most areas of the state receiving between 5-20mm today.
UPDATE: A SEVERE thunderstorm warning was cancelled at 8.30am but not before much-needed rain was recorded in western Victoria.
MORE than 20mm is expected in some storms predicted to arrive in Victoria on Friday.
SOUTHEAST Australia is in for a scorcher with the mercury forecast to hit 45C tomorrow.
SWAN Hill has experienced its driest year since the height of the millennium drought.
FARMERS have welcomed up to 95mm of rain that fell as a storm swept across parched parts of Victoria at the weekend.
THE Murray River separated the good from the ordinary in terms of rainfall this year.
THE parched Mallee region in Victoria is expected to feel the brunt of a scorching heatwave this weekend.
UPDATE: VICTORIA will receive its first burst of summer heat on the weekend.
PARTS of southeast Australia have defied the strongest El Nino weather conditions in a decade.
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