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Heavy rains and storms lash Sydney, WA coast

Heavy rains and storms lash Sydney, WA coast

Heavy rain that lashed Sydney saw the harbour city cop a month's worth of rain on the first day of winter, while parts of the WA coast were also drenched.

AusNet to pay $12m after outage tracker crash

AusNet to pay $12m after outage tracker crash

AusNet to pay $12m after outage tracker crash

AusNet to pay $12m after outage tracker crash

A major electricity distributor will fork out more cash to make up for the failure of its outage tracker during massive storms that lashed Victoria.

Dangerous weather heading north after record downpours

Dangerous weather heading north after record downpours

Dangerous weather heading north after record downpours

Dangerous weather heading north after record downpours

Heavy and intense rain is forecast in parts of NSW within days after storms lashed Victoria, with hundreds of calls for help amid record breaking downpours.

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Rising floodwaters trigger more cyclone evacuations

Rising floodwaters trigger more cyclone evacuations

Almost 400 residents have been evacuated from a remote Northern Territory town battered by ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan, which left some communication severed.

NT residents evacuated as cyclone triggers flooding

NT residents evacuated as cyclone triggers flooding

More than 100 residents have been evacuated from the remote Northern Territory town of Borroloola after Tropical Cyclone Megan swept through the community.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan sweeps through inland NT

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan sweeps through inland NT

Residents in the path of ex-Topical Cyclone Megan have been warned to expect road closures and flash flooding across the Northern Territory.

Relief as 'resilient' family rescued from remote WA

Relief as 'resilient' family rescued from remote WA

Seven family members who were missing in remote flooded Western Australia for several days have been rescued and are said to be doing well.

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Community health leaders push for disaster program

Community health leaders push for disaster program

Community health leaders push for disaster program

Community health leaders push for disaster program

Another summer of fires and storms has reinforced the need for a permanent disaster recovery program within Victorian community health services, leaders say.

Almost 13,000 Vic homes still off-grid after storms

Almost 13,000 Vic homes still off-grid after storms

Almost 13,000 Vic homes still off-grid after storms

Almost 13,000 Vic homes still off-grid after storms

Almost 13,000 Victorian homes and businesses remain without power following Tuesday's fierce storms and financial assistance is being offered.

Recovery effort begins for communities lashed by storms

Recovery effort begins for communities lashed by storms

Recovery effort begins for communities lashed by storms

Recovery effort begins for communities lashed by storms

More than a dozen homes are uninhabitable due to destructive storms that lashed most of Victoria, as recovery efforts begin.

Sixteen homes 'uninhabitable' as outage compo capped

Sixteen homes 'uninhabitable' as outage compo capped

Sixteen homes 'uninhabitable' as outage compo capped

Sixteen homes 'uninhabitable' as outage compo capped

Most Victorians caught up in a mass power outage will be ineligible for compensation as the damage to homes from destructive storms is laid bare.

Heavy rain causes floods as tropical cyclone looms

Heavy rain causes floods as tropical cyclone looms

Heavy rain causes floods as tropical cyclone looms

Heavy rain causes floods as tropical cyclone looms

Tropical Cyclone Lincoln has formed in the Gulf of Carpentaria after a woman was found dead in floodwaters in Queensland's northwest.

Victorians face third dark night as energy grid fixed

Victorians face third dark night as energy grid fixed

Victorians face third dark night as energy grid fixed

Victorians face third dark night as energy grid fixed

Crews are whittling down the number of Victorian homes and businesses without power but many residents face another night in the dark following wild storms.

Climate change fuelling Australia's eighth-warmest year

Climate change fuelling Australia's eighth-warmest year

Climate change fuelling Australia's eighth-warmest year

Climate change fuelling Australia's eighth-warmest year

Australia sweltered through its eighth-warmest year on record in 2023, according to a new report from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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Severe weather warning for border as ex-Kirrily lingers

Flood-hit Queensland regions are bracing for another drenching from ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily amid calls for more resilient infrastructure.

Cyclone set for 'last hurrah' as another threat looms

Queensland is set to farewell ex-tropical cyclone Kirrily after a long week of heavy rain and damaging winds as another threat looms off the coast.

Flood clean-up begins but another cyclone may loom

Barely a week after a severe weather system lashed Queensland's north, yet another cyclone may soon loom off the coast.

Hardship grants offered as cyclone power outages remain

Thousands of customers remain without power in Queensland's north where hardship grants have been offered to residents hit by Tropical Cyclone Kirrily.

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Kirrily mop up begins but heavy rain risk remains

Hundreds of energy restoration crews, volunteers and low-security prisoners are pitching in to help clean up Townsville after the region was hit by a cyclone.

Region battens down the hatches as cyclone forms

A tropical cyclone is finally set to form before intensifying as it heads toward the north Queensland coast, with strong winds and heavy rain forecast.

Cyclone menace forming on doorstep of flood-hit region

A rapidly forming cyclone is forecast to unleash damaging winds and heavy rain on far north Queensland, barely a month after wild weather devastated the region.

Cyclone brewing with northern Australia on flood watch

Another storm threat has northern Australia's flood-hit regions on high alert as Cyclone Kirrily takes shape in the Coral Sea.

No crystal ball for extreme weather events, boffins say

El Nino and other factors make extreme weather events more difficult to predict, say scholars following scrutiny in the wake of destructive floods and storms.

Flood-hit regions brace for more rain, Cyclone Kirrily

Australia's flood-hit regions are bracing for a second natural disaster in barely a month as Cyclone Kirrily threatens to form off the coast.

Desperate boat rescue as monsoon drenches north Qld

Already saturated communities in north Queensland are expecting further heavy rain as a monsoon trough moves over the Cape York Peninsula.

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