The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted Melbourne’s warmest day since April. Other parts of Victoria are forecast to reach more than 30 degrees this week.
Unfavourable winter conditions forced some ski resorts to end their season and close this weekend,while others are weighing up the benefit of staying open this year.
Spring has sprung early. That’s not a good thing. After record-breaking summer temperatures and fires in the northern hemisphere,Australia’s warm winter and early spring are harbingers of summer heatwaves.
The bureau’s severe weather warning said damaging wind gusts up to 100km/h were possible on Saturday,along with thunderstorms and possibly the highest tide in almost a decade.
There will be a lot of activity surrounding the winter solstice on Thursday.
A cold and wet start to the week will make for ideal skiing conditions on the Victorian alps,but leave the rest of the state shivering as conditions turn dark and dreary.
A tornado warning was briefly issued for some remote towns south-west of Mildura after forecast heavy rain and damaging winds prompted the prime minister to cancel a visit to Horsham.
Melbourne physicists cracked the secret of an eerie cloud formation that rolls across north Queensland’s gulf country on moist spring mornings and occurs occasionally on Port Phillip Bay.
I come from a place where it’s usually a balmy 26 degrees. As the freezing weather hits,staying warm (and upbeat) in Melbourne takes a little getting used to.
An unofficial winter has arrived in Melbourne,with temperature not expected to breach 13 degrees this weekend.
A strong geomagnetic storm caused by a solar flare has produced the most impressive Aurora Australis display in 15 years and there is more to come.