How climate change is making extreme rainfall events like the Great Ocean Road flooding more frequent and intense
When it comes to extreme rainfall, it's hard for climate scientists to say what's natural and what's caused by climate change, but they do know the most extreme events are dropping more rain, more often. This is why.
High chance of tropical cyclone forming off WA's Kimberley coast next week, BOM says
A tropical cyclone is highly likely to form off Western Australia's far north coast next week, with the Bureau of Meteorology closely monitoring conditions between the Kimberley and Northern Territory.
Campers told to reconsider travel as severe weather lashes NSW south coast
Campers have been evacuated from low-lying areas as damaging wet weather makes its way along the NSW south coast.
WA farmers grapple with three-month BOM radar outage ahead of planting season
A key weather radar in WA's north is expected to be offline for at least three months, leaving farmers and pastoralists facing financial losses and safety risks.
Hundreds of satellite images capture Victoria's destructive bushfires erupting
Hundreds of images captured by an orbiting weather satellite, and stitched together by the ABC, show the scale and destructive force of the Victorian bushfires.
Energy giant AGL offers cash for conservation amid grid strains
In a move labelled a sign of the times, energy firm AGL was last week offering customers money to cut use during a heatwave.
Great Ocean Road flash flooding leaves beach towns to count the cost
The Lorne caravan park will be closed for weeks after record-breaking rains turned into "terrifying" floodwaters, sweeping cars into the ocean and inundating holiday parks along Victoria's Great Ocean Road.
Woman dies after tree falls on her car south of Wollongong as winds and rain lash NSW coast
Emergency services were called to the Illawarra Highway near Clover Hill Road just before 4pm after a tree branch fell onto a passing vehicle on a busy road.
Flood recovery continues for Great Ocean Road communities following historic deluge
Emergency services have defended warning times as locals recover from the record-breaking rains and worst floods in the area since the 1980s.
Record-breaking Great Ocean Road downpour sweeps cars to sea, inundates caravan parks
People in the popular holiday region have had to scramble to higher ground as a storm cell dumped more than 100 millimetres of rain, flooding campsites and washing several cars to sea.