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Cloudy at times across northern NT and northeastern Qld with a with a few showers, heavy and thundery in the north. Blustery across southwestern WA, southern Victoria and Tas with a few showers. Most places dry under the influence of a ridge of high pressure.

Now

Min

Max

Late ShowerSydneyNSW

22.2°C

17°C
26°C

Mostly CloudyMelbourneVIC

16.2°C

12°C
19°C

Clearing ShowerBrisbaneQLD

22.2°C

20°C
28°C

Windy with RainPerthWA

20.1°C

17°C
25°C

Mostly CloudyAdelaideSA

16.8°C

10°C
21°C

Fog Then SunnyCanberraACT

17.7°C

6°C
23°C

Clearing ShowerHobartTAS

15.9°C

10°C
19°C

Clearing ShowerDarwinNT

29.6°C

24°C
33°C

Daily Forecast

Cloudy at times across northern NT and northeastern Qld with a with a few showers, heavy and thundery in the north. Blustery across southwestern WA, southern Victoria and Tas with a few showers. Most places dry under the influence of a ridge of high pressure.

Now

Min

Max

Late ShowerSydneyNSW

22.2°C

17°C
26°C

Mostly CloudyMelbourneVIC

16.2°C

12°C
19°C

Clearing ShowerBrisbaneQLD

22.2°C

20°C
28°C

Windy with RainPerthWA

20.1°C

17°C
25°C

Mostly CloudyAdelaideSA

16.8°C

10°C
21°C

Fog Then SunnyCanberraACT

17.7°C

6°C
23°C

Clearing ShowerHobartTAS

15.9°C

10°C
19°C

Clearing ShowerDarwinNT

29.6°C

24°C
33°C

Latest Warnings

Extremes

Live Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Paraburdoo, WA

36.0°C (4:40PM AWST)

Apr Long Term Average: 33.8°C

Apr Record: 41.6°C (2016)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Mt Baw Baw, VIC

3.4°C (7:40PM AEDT)

Apr Long Term Average: 4.0°C

Apr Record: -5.7°C (2009)

Rain

Wettest

INGHAM AERO, QLD

30.8mm (Since 9am)

Apr Long Term Average: -

Apr Record: -

Today’s Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Mandora, WA

37.8°C (1:53PM AWST)

APR Long Term Average: 36.3°C

APR Record: 43.6°C (1985)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Perisher Valley, NSW

-1.1°C (7:33AM AEDT)

APR Long Term Average: 1.4°C

APR Record: -7.2°C (2019)

Rain

Wettest

Gladstone, QLD

107.2mm (24h to 9am)

APR Long Term Average: 48.6mm

APR Record: 97.8mm (2011)

This Month’s Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Kalbarri, WA

42.0°C (2 April)

Apr Long Term Average: 29.6°C

Apr Record: 39.7°C (2024)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Cessnock Airport, NSW

-49.9°C (1 April)

Apr Long Term Average: 10.7°C

Apr Record: -1.2°C (2006)

Rain

Wettest

Gladstone Airport, QLD

229.0mm (MTD)

Apr Long Term Average: 43.8mm

Apr Record: 214.2mm (1996)

This Year’s Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Pearce, WA

51.2°C (19 January)

FEB Long Term Average: 33.5°C

FEB Record: 46.1°C (2024)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Cessnock Airport, NSW

-49.9°C (31 March)

JAN Long Term Average: 17.1°C

JAN Record: 6.1°C (1972)

Rain

Wettest

Paluma, QLD

4756.9mm (YTD)

Annual Average: 2556.4mm

Annual Record: 4691.0mm (1981)

Records data is supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology and has not been independently quality controlled.

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Today, 12:05AM UTC

Twin cold fronts bringing snow to Tasmania this weekend

A burst of wintry weather will hit Tasmania this weekend, delivering a mix of snow, small hail, rain and blustery winds. A pair of cold fronts will sweep across Tasmania during the next three days, one on Friday night and another on Sunday. Image: Satellite image showing a cold front located to the south of Australia on Friday morning. The first front will cause wind and rain to increase late on Friday as temperatures take a dive into the evening. It should get cold enough for snow to fall to about 700m above sea level on Friday night into Saturday morning, possibly a bit lower. This has prompted a Bush Walkers Weather Alert in the Western and Central Plateau districts, and a Warning to Sheep Graziers in the North West Coast, Midlands, Upper Derwent Valley and the South East districts. Western parts of the state could also see small hail at times on Saturday. Wind and showers will ease briefly on Saturday morning before increasing again late Saturday into Sunday, ahead of and with the passage of the second cold front. This second frontal system will be stronger than the first, with a good chance of damaging wind gusts in some parts of the state. There will also be more rain, highland snow and small hail in the mix on Sunday. Image: Forecast wind gusts early on Sunday morning, showing powerful west-northwesterly winds affecting Tasmania ahead of an approaching cold front. While this weekend’s cold weather is not unusual for this time of year, it will cause dangerous conditions for outdoor activities and travel in some parts of the state. Bu sure to stay up to date with the latest weather warnings and road closures on Friday night and throughout the weekend.

03 Apr 2025, 10:01AM UTC

Clouds clear to reveal immense scale of Queensland flooding

Satellites have captured spectacular images of the massive floods currently affecting southwest Queensland, revealing water stretching thousands of kilometres across the Australian outback. After multiple rounds of heavy rain over the past fortnight, clear skies on Thursday allowed satellites to capture high-resolution images of the flooded landscape. While breaks in cloud allowed glimpses of the flooding late last week and earlier this week, Thursday offered the clearest view yet of the immense flooding stretching across Queensland’s vast Channel Country. The image below is a natural ‘true colour’ satellite image of the landscape on Thursday morning, offering a clear view of the earthy floodwaters in southwest Qld. Image: Visible true colour satellite image captured at 8:30am AEST on Thursday, April 3. While the floodwaters are easy enough to make out on the image above, they are better highlighted using false colours that help distinguish water from the surrounding landscape. The image below uses false colours that enhance floods by making liquid water on the ground appear blue, with sediment-heavy water appearing darker blue. Image: Corrected reflectance image captured by the Terra satellite on Thursday, April 3. Source: NASA Worldview The video below also uses this technique to show the immense scale of the flooding, with the flooded rivers clearly standing out against the Australian outback. Video: Himawari-9 satellite image using corrected reflectance to show flooding in southwest Queensland on Thursday, April 3. The main rivers that can be seen in the images and video above are the Georgina, Diamantina and Bulloo Rivers and the Cooper Creek. Some sections of these rivers have bulged to about 70 km in width as the floodwater inundates the notoriously flat landscape of Queensland’s Channel Country. These flatland floods will continue for weeks to months as the water slowly drains through the landscape. Some of this water will eventually reach Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, although that’s not going to happen until late-April into May.

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03 Apr 2025, 5:10AM UTC

Daylight saving ends: how to remember which way to turn your clocks

Do you turn your clocks forwards or backwards at 3am this Sunday, April 6, in the Australian states and territories where daylight saving ends (NSW, ACT, SA, Vic, Tas)? That might seem like a simple question, but even great minds have occasionally seized up as people ask themselves, "Wait, is it forward or back? Are we adding or subtracting an hour here?" The answer is that you turn the clocks backwards (if indeed your home or personal effects include any timepieces that require manual changing), and there’s a weather-related way to remember. “Spring forward, fall back” Simple as that. That’s the simple mnemonic (handy phrase to help you remember things) to remind you to turn your clocks forwards in the spring and backwards in the fall – or in the autumn as we Australians call it. READ MORE: Don’t make this common daylight saving mistake Reverting back to Australian Eastern Standard Time as daylight saving ends means that: From 3am this Sunday, there will be no gap between clocks in Australia’s three largest cities, as Brisbane catches up to Melbourne and Sydney. Adelaide, Darwin and Alice Springs will all be back on the same time, rather than the NT being an hour behind SA. Perth will now be just two hours behind the southeastern states, not three. If you live in a state where daylight saving is about to end, you will get to relive the hour between 2am and 3am in the closest your life will ever come to the movie Groundhog Day. While you’ll have less light for outdoors activities in the evenings from Sunday onwards, you will gain some extra light in the morning – although this will be negated as days shorten with winter approaching. READ MORE: Our story from 2023 about Australia’s smallest, strangest (unofficial) time zone From a meteorological reporting point of view, maximum temperatures can now be expected to occur slightly earlier in the day in states that revert back to regular time. And for those wondering, the official term is daylight saving (singular), not daylight savings (plural).

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Climate Updates

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01 Apr 2025, 9:20AM UTC

Australia's hottest and 4th-wettest March on record

With nationwide average temperatures that were 2.41°C above the long-term average, Australia has registered its hottest March since national records were first kept in 1910. It was also Australia’s fourth-wettest March on record, with rainfall that was 47% above the long-term average. Wet weather and above-average temperatures generally don’t go together for the obvious reason that cloudy weather restricts the amount of warming sunlight, therefore it’s likely that the underlying influence of climate change was a factor contributing to Australia's very warm March. Image: Mean temperature anomalies for Australia from 1910 to 2025. The anomalies are compared to the average of the 30-year baseline period from 1961-1990. Source: BoM. Temperature statistics for March 2025 As mentioned, Australia as a whole was 2.41°C above the long-term average, the hottest March on record.  Each individual state and territory was warmer than normal. Three states had their hottest March on record – SA, NSW and WA.  South Australia registered the biggest anomaly of any state or territory, with statewide temperatures that were 3.26°C above the long-term average. Tasmania registered the smallest temperature anomaly, yet it was still the state's 10th-warmest March on record, with temperatures 1.06°C warmer than the long-term average.  Rainfall summary for March 2025 As the blue areas on the chart below indicate, virtually the whole of Queensland and large parts of northern NSW saw rainfall that was very much above average, or even the highest on record, in March 2025.  Image: Rainfall deciles for March 2025, with the darkest blue representing the highest March rainfall on record. Source: BoM. Overall it was Queensland's 3rd-wettest March on record. The first notable rainfall reading came on March 9, when Brisbane had its wettest day in half a century with 275.2mm recorded due to ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.  In the middle third of the month, the wettest part of the country was North Queensland, with Townsville recording its heaviest daily rainfall in 27 years when 301.4mm drenched the city in the 24-hours to 9am on March 19. Around the same time of the month, a weather station on the Cardwell Range, about halfway between Cairns and Townsville, recorded a 7-day rainfall total of 1090.8 mm. In the last full week of the month, 24-hour totals of more than 200mm were recorded at weather stations in far western Qld, as a prolonged influx of tropical moisture soaked outback and central Qld and parts of northern NSW. Despite the relentless rainfall in Qld and parts of NSW, March rainfall totals were below average for most of Tasmania, parts of the mainland's south and west, and parts of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. READ MORE: Normally dry creek now 60km wide

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03 Feb 2025, 6:15AM UTC

Australia's second-warmest January on record

Australia has recorded its second-warmest January on record, with average temperatures that were 2.15°C above the long-term average across the nation as a whole. Only January 2019 was warmer overall, with temps a whopping 2.85°C above the long-term average in what became Australia's warmest year on record. But January 2025 was still an exceptionally warm month, with every state and territory warmer than usual, while Western Australia endured its warmest January on record. Here's the state-by-state breakdown of January’s mean temperature anomalies (mean temps are the average of max and min temps). South Australia +2.52°C Queensland +2.16°C Northern Territory +2.14°C Western Australia +2.13°C New South Wales* +2.02°C Victoria +1.71°C Tasmania +0.85°C *Note that the ACT is included as part of NSW as it has too few sites for a meaningful territory-wide average. In terms of rainfall, January was relatively dry compared to the long-term norm. Rainfall was 33% down on the long-term average nationwide, and was below-average in all states overall, although some pockets of some states got a heavier soaking than usual. Image: Cyclone Sean gave WA’s Pilbara coast considerably more January rainfall than usual, while the NSW coast was reasonably wet too, though thankfully not in the first week of the year when the men's cricket Test was on at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Source: BoM. When rainfall is below average, that generally means skies have been clear, which in turn tends to point towards warmer weather. So Australia's dryish January partly explains the exceptionally warm temperatures nationwide. But the underlying influence of climate change must also be taken into consideration, as illustrated in the graph below. Image: The warming trend is unmistakable. Source: BoM.

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07 Mar 2023, 1:09AM UTC

Climate Update - Summer 2022-23

Australia just had one of its coolest and wettest summers of the last decade. However, there were clear signs that La Ni�a is finally losing its grip on Australia?s weather.

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07 Dec 2022, 4:46AM UTC

Climate Update Spring 2022

Australia just had its 2nd wettest spring on record and its coolest spring in more than a decade. But will this cool and wet weather continue over summer?

Extremes & Records

Live Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Paraburdoo, WA

36.0°C (4:40PM AWST)

Apr Long Term Average: 33.8°C

Apr Record: 41.6°C (2016)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Mt Baw Baw, VIC

3.4°C (7:40PM AEDT)

Apr Long Term Average: 4.0°C

Apr Record: -5.7°C (2009)

Rain

Wettest

INGHAM AERO, QLD

30.8mm (Since 9am)

Apr Long Term Average: -

Apr Record: -

Today’s Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Mandora, WA

37.8°C (1:53PM AWST)

APR Long Term Average: 36.3°C

APR Record: 43.6°C (1985)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Perisher Valley, NSW

-1.1°C (7:33AM AEDT)

APR Long Term Average: 1.4°C

APR Record: -7.2°C (2019)

Rain

Wettest

Gladstone, QLD

107.2mm (24h to 9am)

APR Long Term Average: 48.6mm

APR Record: 97.8mm (2011)

This Month’s Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Kalbarri, WA

42.0°C (2 April)

Apr Long Term Average: 29.6°C

Apr Record: 39.7°C (2024)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Cessnock Airport, NSW

-49.9°C (1 April)

Apr Long Term Average: 10.7°C

Apr Record: -1.2°C (2006)

Rain

Wettest

Gladstone Airport, QLD

229.0mm (MTD)

Apr Long Term Average: 43.8mm

Apr Record: 214.2mm (1996)

This Year’s Extremes

High Temperature

Highest Temp

Pearce, WA

51.2°C (19 January)

FEB Long Term Average: 33.5°C

FEB Record: 46.1°C (2024)

Low Temperature

Lowest Temp

Cessnock Airport, NSW

-49.9°C (31 March)

JAN Long Term Average: 17.1°C

JAN Record: 6.1°C (1972)

Rain

Wettest

Paluma, QLD

4756.9mm (YTD)

Annual Average: 2556.4mm

Annual Record: 4691.0mm (1981)

Records data is supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology and has not been independently quality controlled.