Weather

Farmers in WA's north typically rely on real-time radar data for planting purposes during the wet season.  

The swollen Thomson River has carried floodwaters closer to homes with levels forecast to continue rising.

Another burst of tropical moisture and heavy rain will descend through the heart of Australia during the coming days.

Two Chinese holiday-makers killed in Queensland floodwater were in contact with their friends hours before their tragic deaths.

Hundreds of people in Queensland's Bundaberg region are cleaning up their homes and businesses as floodwaters recede, while residents in western Queensland prepare for flooding.

Australia has always been hot. On average, summer is now one degree warmer than it was 50 years ago. But that number hides the stark reality that the summers our kids experience today are much more extreme and longer than they used to be.

Sydney's humidity has been rivalling the tropics in the middle of wet season, with the stifling conditions expected to linger into autumn.

A boil water alert has been issued for Darwin, in addition to Katherine, Beswick and Tindal. The alert comes after issues with the pump station at Darwin's main dam. Here's what you need to know about your water.

Heavy rain is forecast to continue over the already-flooded northern parts of the country.

Residents in four Bundaberg suburbs have been issued with an emergency warning to "leave immediately" ahead of major flooding on the Burnett River, which runs through the city.

A tropical low moving through northern parts of Queensland and tracking west is dragging persistent wet weather across the region.

The Barrier Highway which connects Broken Hill to Dubbo and Sydney has been closed by major flooding with waters still expected to rise.

A tropical low has crossed the Queensland coast, bringing hundreds of millimetres of rain to some properties. 

Two years after farmers began feeling the impacts of what were then record dry conditions, many are celebrating what they say could be the end of the drought.

The Bureau of Meteorology expects the tropical low off Queensland's north tropical coast will bring heavy rain today, but a cyclone watch has been cancelled.

Most of us have memories of jumping in big rain puddles, or making mud pies growing up, but for many regional and rural kids in SA last weekend's rain event was the first time they had popped their gumboots on.

Australians looking to the sky on Tuesday night saw the Moon turn a reddish-orange hue, in the last total lunar eclipse until 2029.

A photographer from a coastal mining town in WA described the "cyclonic" winds as a thick dust storm blanketed her town.

An outback tragedy has claimed the life of avid motorcyclist Darran Hyman, whose death during SA's weekend wet weather came almost exactly two years after his own father was also killed during a ride.

The long range weather forecast March to May 2026 by experts from the Bureau of Meteorology.