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Desert Climate in Australia: Australia's Unique Arid Ecosystems

06:00 AEDT Australia, a vast and diverse continent, is famous for its stunning landscapes and extensive desert regions.
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Tropical Cyclone likely in Coral Sea this week

15:47 AEDT A tropical cyclone is likely to track over the Coral Sea this week and may move closer to Australia’s east coast at some stage next week.
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Storms electrify Sydney, bringing Campbelltown Carols to a grinding halt

18:00 AEDT An active trough brought severe thunderstorms to Sydney and surrounds last night, with some areas in the region’s southwest and into the Wollondilly area receiving some significant rainfall.
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Renewed flooding on the way to NSW South Coast

14:38 AEDT Sodden ground is beginning to soak, and rivers are about to swell and flow faster in South Coast New South Wales, only a few days after flooding hit the area.
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40 million lightning strikes over Australian region in November

11:34 AEDT November 2023 was a prolific month for thunderstorms in Australia, with 40.5 million lightning strikes detected over the Australian region in the last 30 days.
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A November to remember for Canberra

10:45 AEDT The national capital is up to 134.2 mm of rainfall for November 2023, and indeed that will now be the official monthly total, as any rain that falls this Thursday will fall in the 24-hour total to 9 am Friday December 1, which means it counts as December rainfall.
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1,500 km severe storm band crossing eastern Australia

16:28 AEDT A broad arc of dangerous thunderstorms is moving over eastern Australia this afternoon, prompting severe storm warnings from central Qld to southern NSW.
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Phenomenally heavy rainfall across New South Wales

10:44 AEDT Extremely heavy and in some cases record-breaking rain has fallen across New South Wales in the 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday, with 351 mm falling at one South Coast location.
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Adelaide's wettest November day in almost two decades

09:51 AEDT For the second time this month, Adelaide and nearby parts of South Australia have received significant rainfall in excess of 20 mm, this time accompanied by storms and lightning.
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Another wet week for eastern Australia

11:34 AEDT The wet November looks likely to continue in eastern parts of the country this week and the map illustrates the situation quite dramatically.
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Heat and extreme fire danger impacting WA over the weekend

14:12 AEDT The heat is being turned up for places like Perth and Bunbury today and tomorrow after a somewhat milder day yesterday.
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El Niño likely to persist into Autumn

09:15 AEDT The hot and dry weather associated with El Niño should persist into Autumn next year as the event continues to strengthen.  El Niño was officially declared by the Bureau of Meteorology in September on the back of three consecutive La Nina years.
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Nearly 100mm in an hour in Queensland

15:06 AEDT Nearly 100mm in one hour, including 36mm in 10 minutes, has poured down on the small northern Queensland town of Georgetown overnight with an intense thunderstorm.
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Australia is lit up like a Christmas tree

17:34 AEDT Just take a look at that 4 pm Wednesday national radar.
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Huge outbreak of lightning at Lightning Ridge

17:15 AEDT They named the small outback NSW town of Lightning Ridge for a reason, and you'd better believe that reason was the weather.
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Perth could break records in late spring heatwave

17:16 AEDT There's nothing too unusual about a burst of heat for Perth and nearby areas with summer almost upon us, but this week's heat will be intense by November standards.
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Why wave period matters

09:31 AEDT A long period southerly groundswell impacted the NSW coastline last week, leading to hazardous surf warnings, yet the wave height remained relatively small.  Huge waves generated from powerful storms a long distance away, like deep lows to the south of Australia in the Southern Ocean, propagate away from these strong wind areas as swell.
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Heatwave to expand across WA this week

11:47 AEDT Heat is brewing over WA’s north and will intensify and expand down along the west coast during the coming week.
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Western Sydney cooling centres to give refuge from extreme summer heat

15:28 AEDT As temperatures continue to soar in western Sydney, councils and local government have set up centres to keep locals cool this summer.  Penrith in Sydney’s west was momentarily dubbed the hottest place on Earth when it recorded a temperature of 48.9°C on January 4, 2020.
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More wet weather for central, eastern Australia

12:05 AEDT Rain and thunderstorms will continue to soak large areas of central and eastern Australia during the coming week, with potential for substantial rain in Qld stating this weekend.
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Desert Climate in Australia: Australia's Unique Arid Ecosystems

06:00 AEDT Australia, a vast and diverse continent, is famous for its stunning landscapes and extensive desert regions.