Australia Weather News

Thursday 21 March, 2019

2 hours 34 mins agoCyclone Veronica rapidly intensifies off WA's Pilbara coast, expected to reach category five Destructive winds and a storm surge are forecast for communities along WA's Pilbara coast as Cyclone Veronica bears down after strengthening into a category four system — and the BOM says it is likely to intensify even further.

3 hours 26 mins agoMissing Top End wet season has winners and losers What do confused magpie geese, skewed sex ratios in crocodile hatchlings and poor run-off fishing have in common?

4 hours 50 mins agoCyclone Trevor prompts mass evacuation from NT communities as it heads across Gulf A state of emergency is declared in the Northern Territory as Tropical Cyclone Trevor tracks across the Gulf of Carpentaria and the defence force assists with the largest mass evacuation in 40 years.

5 hours 51 mins agoSydney news: Last supermoon of 2019 rises, man falls through JB Hi-Fi roof MORNING BRIEFING: An alleged thief suffers serious injuries after he falls through the roof of a JB Hi-Fi story, and an impressive super moon rises about Sydney Harbour.

Wednesday 20 March, 2019

17 hours 14 mins agoGulf fisherman thought he 'was going to die' in Cyclone Trevor nightmare at sea A fisherman in the Gulf of Carpentaria survives a horrific night at sea as Tropical Cyclone Trevor barrels towards the Northern Territory.

19 hours 55 mins agoMass evacuations for NT coastal communities as Cyclone Trevor approaches Communities from Groote Eylandt down the Gulf of Carpentaria are told to evacuate as Tropical Cyclone Trevor looks to turn into a category four system.

22 hours 47 mins agoInjured sooty tern seabird blown off course by cyclone Trevor, rescued on cattle station An injured sooty tern is blown hundreds of kilometres off course by Tropical Cyclone Trevor and kids on a Cape York cattle station discover the injured seabird on their airstrip.

1 day agoCyclone Veronica forms off WA coast, with warning 'strong system' set to reach Pilbara The Bureau of Meteorology predicts Cyclone Veronica will strengthen into at least a category four tropical storm before reaching WA's Pilbara coast over the weekend, threatening communities from Port Hedland to Exmouth.

1 day agoTropical Cyclone Trevor continues across Far North Queensland as category one system Communities on the Gulf of Carpentaria are being warned destructive winds and heavy rain from cyclone Trevor are not over, with the system expected to move offshore and rapidly intensify again.

1 day agoSydney news: Poll reveals NSW election remains deadlocked, police make fresh murder appeal MORNING BRIEFING: Yet another poll shows NSW is likely on track for a hung parliament when people head to the polls this Saturday, while police reveal a diamond ring could be critical piece of evidence as they investigate a decades-old cold case.

Tuesday 19 March, 2019

2 days agoCyclone Trevor weakens to category two system, Lockhart River in lockdown The community of Lockhart River remains in lockdown as Severe Tropical Cyclone Trevor crosses the Queensland coast as a category two storm with a "very destructive core".

2 days agoCurious Brisbane: For city starved of summer storms, their arrival is better late than never Despite autumnal downpours bringing upwards of 100mm across south-east Queensland, its usually active storm period from towards the end of 2018 was missing in action.

2 days agoSydney news: Supercar seized in drug bust, police recordings withheld in Keli Lane case MORNING BRIEFING: A V8 Supercar Falcon and almost $1 million worth of cannabis is seized in the Hunter and Dubbo and an ABC investigation uncovers thousands of covert police recordings were not handed to Keli Lane's defence team.

Monday 18 March, 2019

2 days agoDarwin's underground power project restarts but could take 30 years to finish A year after Cyclone Marcus, which left almost 30,000 residents without power, the NT Government has finally taken a decades-old program off ice — announcing it would move the power supply of nine Darwin schools underground.