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Melbourne set for warmer week – but winter isn’t over
The mercury is expected to hit 20 degrees in Melbourne for four days straight, but the weather bureau says it isn’t time to put the winter woollies away yet.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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The polar vortex bringing icy temperatures across southern Australia
A destabilised weather pattern has pushed the polar vortex high above Antarctica off course, pushing freezing winds into southern Australia. When will it end?
- by Bianca Hall
Record-breaking weather system brings rain and freezing mornings
Rain in Sydney and record-breaking cold in Victoria is down to an abnormal anticyclone that could go down in history.
- by Angus Dalton
More frost on the way after Melbourne shivers through coldest start of 2024
Elsewhere in Victoria, temperatures in Horsham, Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong dropped to between minus 1 degree and minus 3 degrees.
- by Alex Crowe
Melbourne on track for driest start to winter in seven years
The cold snap continues this week, but it’s good news for Victoria’s ski resorts, where up to 20 centimetres of snow has fallen over 24 hours.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
Icy weather locks in across south-east Australia after crisp winter morning
Parts of the country have experienced the coldest June morning in almost 30 years and the cold snap is expected to last for days.
- by Bianca Hall
‘Nuisance’ rain on the way as Melbourne’s cold, foggy mornings roll on
Melburnians shivered through the coldest day in five years on Thursday, and the cold fronts are expected to keep coming next week.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
Why Victorians should keep looking to the night sky to be dazzled
After the aurora australis phenomenon painted our skies pink and green, a new celestial delight is headed our way (but it could be more fickle).
- by Benjamin Preiss
Here comes winter … and more rain
May will be the 14th consecutive month of record-breaking ocean temperatures globally, as 2024 shapes up to shatter last year’s heat record.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Bianca Hall
How to see the dazzling aurora australis tonight
A stunning display of the southern lights will likely be across the nation’s south thanks to an extreme geomagnetic storm.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
Rain lashes Melbourne as High Country welcomes first snow of year
Dozens remain without power in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs after a cold, wet start to the week that also brought snow to Victoria’s alps.
- by Madeleine Heffernan