Climate change is driving a major divergence in where rain falls in Australia. In northern Australia, average wet-season rainfall is now about 20 per cent higher than 30 years ago. But in southwestern ...

The bureau's latest seasonal climate summary says the mean temperature across South Australia in autumn was 21.3 degrees Celsius, or 1.75C above the 1961–1990 average and the third warmest on ...

Sydney has recorded its wettest year since records began in 1858 as further downpours are forecast in coming days that could cause more flooding in Australia’s eastern states.

Recent rainfall in south-western Victoria and southern South Australia have wrongly led many to believe the drought is over.

A serious gap in the official rainfall records for Australia for the period 1939–45 would not have come as a surprise, but with the receipt recently of the 1945 issue of the official “Rain Map ...

Western Australian towns reaching above average included Halls Creek (892mm), Morawa (373mm), Carnarvon (270mm) and Kununurra (994mm). Victoria is yet to reach its annual rain averages.

Deadly Australian floods were made worse by climate crisis and such storms are no longer ‘natural’, scientists warn. Weather patterns like those driving this week’s floods in New South Wales ...

Australia’s climate has risen by an average 1.5 degrees since 1910. Credit: Dion Georgopoulos. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in 2018 that even if global temperatures were ...