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Wednesday February 10, 2010

Town prepares to clean up after massive storm

10:19 EDT There has been widespread damage in the Great Southern town of Dumbleyung from a storm which ripped through the region.
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Storm rips through Great Southern

ABC image 00:02 EDT A storm has caused significant damage in the Great Southern Shire of Dumbleyung, but authorities say no one has been injured.
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Tuesday February 9, 2010

Severe storms rage across southern VIC

19:04 EDT The limelight has long been on NSW and QLD as a lingering trough generated heavy rain and storms over the last week, but today the focus has shifted as severe storms fired up over southern Victoria.
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Monthly rain totals smashed in NSW

16:11 EDT Much of western New South Wales has taken between 125 to 300% of their February mean, only nine days into the month.
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Storms spark heavy rain in QLD

15:31 EDT Further storms ripped through southern Queensland yesterday bringing some of the heaviest February rain in 10 years.
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Storms cuts power in Kalgoorlie

ABC image 13:49 EDT A severe thunderstorm caused more than 5,000 homes in Kalgoorlie-Boulder to lose power.
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Rainfall boosts Macquarie Marshes

10:10 EDT Recent heavy rainfall will provide significant inflows of water to the Macquarie Marshes near Warren, in central NSW, State Water says.
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Rain stops Hinze Dam work

09:38 EDT SEQ Water says wet weather has stopped work on part of the Hinze Dam in the Gold Coast hinterland.
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Downpour cuts outback roads

08:50 EDT Roads are cut in parts of south-west Queensland and rivers are rising after more big rain.
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Monday February 8, 2010

Sydney can see clearly now the rain has gone

16:11 EDT Soggy Sydney is lurching, slowly towards drier conditions this week, after some suburbs saw their heaviest rain in almost 20 years this weekend.
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South-west drought linked to snowfall

15:08 EDT Scientists have discovered a link between drought in the south-west of Western Australia and increased snowfall in Antarctica.
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Rain and storms surge up QLD coast

14:57 EDT Heavy rain and severe storms, waved goodbye to the Gold Coast last night and thundered their way towards the Sunshine Coast and beyond.
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Western NSW records drenching

14:01 EDT Farmers in parts of the western New South Wales region have recorded some of their best rainfall in years during the weekend.
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Rain good news for valley farmers

13:05 EDT The State Water Department says the weekend rain is good news for famers on a Bega Valley river system in the State's south east.
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Residents mop up after south-east Qld downpour

11:49 EDT A clean-up is underway across south-east Queensland today after weekend torrential rain damaged homes and property.
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Antarctic snow linked to WA dry

ABC image 11:26 EDT Scientists have discovered a link between the ongoing drought in the south western corner of Australia and increased snowfall in parts of Antarctica.
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Downpour boosts Sydney water levels

ABC image 11:20 EDT The Sydney Catchment Management Authority says the city's dam levels have risen by five per-cent as a result of the rainfall over recent days.
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Residents still on flood alert

11:00 EDT A minor flood warning is still current for the Orara River west of Coffs Harbour.
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SES finishes storm clean-up

10:37 EDT The State Emergency Service (SES) says it has completed the clean-up after a storm lashed the Illawarra, the Shoalhaven and the Southern Highlands.
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Monaro misses heavy rain damage

10:05 EDT Heavy rain at the weekend has caused only minor damage on the New South Wales Monaro with the State Emergency Service attending just two jobs at Cooma.
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Washington freezes under record snowfall

Reuters image 09:22 EDT Washington DC is starting to dig itself out from under yesterday's record snowfall but 100,000 homes in the region are still without power.
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More rain but flood threat eases

ABC image 08:40 EDT Showers and thunderstorms are forecast across New South Wales today but the threat of flash flooding is expected to ease.
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Record rain drenches south-east Qld

07:38 EDT The weather bureau says torrential rain on the weekend across Queensland's south-east created new records.
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Sunday February 7, 2010

Heavy rain in the east: It's not over just yet.

20:06 EDT Torrential rain strikes the South East coast of QLD bringing the highest February falls in over 100 years in some places.
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Torrential rain wreaks havoc

ABC image 13:28 EDT Authorities are continuing to rescue several people from floodwaters across southern Queensland, with parts of the region receiving more than 400 millimetres of rain.
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Dry spell ends

ABC image 11:14 EDT The Bureau of Meteorology recorded 0.2 of a millimetre of rain in Perth overnight, ending the city's second longest dry spell in history.
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Queensland storms turn deadly

ABC image 08:27 EDT A 14-year-old boy was killed near Toowoomba overnight as torrential rain causes flash flooding across south-east Queensland.
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NSW storms leave trail of destruction

ABC image 08:12 EDT Emergency crews and residents across Sydney will soon begin cleaning up in the wake of severe thunderstorms which left a trail of damage last night.
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'Snowmageddon' kills 2 in US

Reuters image 07:10 EDT A huge blizzard dumped a blanket of thick snow over the US east coast, paralysing the region and snapping power lines to thousands of people as hazardous roads killed at least two.
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Saturday February 6, 2010

Warra lot of rain

14:40 EDT Sydney's catchments have been swamped in flooding rain, bringing some of the best falls in up to four years.
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Snow storm panic grips Washington DC

AFP image 12:38 EDT Washingtonians are preparing for a blizzard - and I have to say, they don't handle it well.
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Crews busy after wild weather wreaks havoc

ABC image 06:28 EDT Emergency crews received 345 calls for help overnight as wild weather wreaked havoc along the New South Wales coast.
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Airport shuts as storms batter NSW

01:00 EDT Wild weather has wreaked havoc along the coast of New South Wales, with Sydney Airport forced to shut down at the height of the storm.
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Friday February 5, 2010

Man swept out to sea as cyclone hits

23:25 EDT Tropical cyclone Oli has claimed its first life as it sweeps through French Polynesia.
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Roma flood threat eases

19:06 EDT The flood threat has eased at Roma in southern Queensland, but emergency services are not relaxing yet.
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Lightning strikes homes as storm hits NSW

18:03 EDT A wild storm has caused flash flooding and thousands of power outages as it moves south from the New South Wales central coast.
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Perth's dry spell to evaporate?

16:44 EDT The end of Perth's dry spell is nigh, or at least could be as a weak change is expected to push up the coast tomorrow evening, delivering light showers.
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More than a splash for eastern parts of Oz

16:21 EDT Forget extreme heat and drought; eastern Australia is copping a real splash as widespread storms and showers are unleashed upon New South Wales and Queensland, according to weatherzone.com.au.
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Bureau issues NSW flash flood warning

15:35 EDT The weather bureau has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for much of New South Wales, including the Sydney metropolitan area.
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Storms cut NW power

15:00 EDT About 160 homes are still without power in Tasmania's north-west after storms cut supplies last night.
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Council tipping big rain damage repair bill

14:45 EDT The Mackay Regional Council in north Queensland says it expects the repair bill from this month's heavy rain to run into the millions of dollars.
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SES warns of flooding threat

14:43 EDT A significant amount of rain has fallen in the Goulburn Murray region.
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RTA assesses rain-soaked Macquarie Pass

14:27 EDT The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) is making an assessment on Macquarie Pass today, which has been closed due to damage caused by heavy rain overnight.
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Flash flood threat as storms approach Sydney

14:26 EDT A large area of severe thunderstorms is approaching Sydney from the north and is likely to cause flash flooding across the city through the afternoon, according to weatherzone.com.au.
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Welcome rain falls across state

ABC image 12:04 EDT There has been good overnight rain in parts of northern Victoria.
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Roma residents put on flood alert

11:45 EDT Heavy overnight rain could lead to low-level flooding in the southern Queensland inland town of Roma this afternoon.
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Rain brings rural confidence

11:29 EDT Primary producers across western Queensland are reporting their best start to a year in decades after big rain in the past two months.
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Australia joins global lightning database

10:26 EDT Australia will join a global database on lightning activity, after an international company was given approval to build a lightning sensor in far north Queensland.
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Thursday February 4, 2010

Tahiti braces for cyclone

21:50 EDT The Pacific island of Tahiti is on red alert as a powerful cyclone approaches.
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Big flood repair bill expected

15:13 EDT A north-west Queensland mayor says it is still too early to assess the significant damage to roads across the region caused by recent heavy rain and flooding.
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