There are no active warnings for this location.
Weather Maps
Daily Forecast
Showers and some storms is scattering across the interior, SA, western Vic & western NSW as moisture feeds a trough ahead of a front. The front is bringing strong winds, showers, small hail & a few storms to southwest WA. A high is keeping much of the north and east of Aus dry.
Latest Warnings
AUS
Latest News
Climate Updates
Latest News
Today, 1:36AM UTC
Adelaide Braces for Potentially Historic August Soaking
Adelaide is in the grip of a wild winter storm this weekend, with Sunday shaping up as potentially the wettest single August day the city has seen in at least 10 years, with an estimated 30mm of rainfall from midnight to midnight. A broad band of heavy rain and strong winds is sweeping across southern Australia with the passage of a strong cold front, bringing concerns of flash flooding to parts of South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales. Severe weather warnings have been issued for all three states, warning of sustained winds reaching 70km/h and gusting to 100km/h across elevated areas, possibly even gusting to 125km/h over alpine areas of NSW, as the system pushes east. Find more info on current weather warnings here. Image: Wind gusts across Australia on Sunday evening, according to the ECMWF model. Source: Weatherzone Just how much rain are we talking? Adelaide's average August total since records began in 1839 is just 61.1mm - yet the city could exceed that figure in the space of a few days alone. Around 20mm of rain has already fallen across Adelaide suburbs in the 24 hours to 9am Sunday morning. With heavy falls continuing through Sunday and into Monday morning, totals across the event may surpass 60mm. Image: Model predicted rainfall accumulation over 48 hours, ending Monday evening. Source: Weatherzone It wouldn't be the first milestone of the year. Adelaide already recorded its wettest start to winter in 35 years back in June, and as recently as early July, the city clocked its wettest July day in a decade, with 33mm falling at the main city gauge. The wild weather isn't stopping at the South Australian border. Damaging winds and heavy rain are tracking east. Coastal Wind Warnings for gales are current for the West Coast, Central Coast and Spencer Gulf of South Australia, while Severe Weather Warnings for damaging winds have been issued across most South Australian and Victorian districts, including elevated ranges. Flood watches have been issued for multiple Victorian catchments as the front pushes through, and severe weather warnings extend into southern New South Wales -meaning millions of people across three states are bracing for a wild and woolly end to the weekend.
08 Aug 2026, 3:15AM UTC
Sydney cruising through warmest winter to date on record
Despite a relatively chilly start to August, Sydney is having its warmest winter to date on record. Sydney’s warmest winter to date on record In June, July, and the first week of August, combining days and nights, the city has been running 2.3 degrees warmer than the long-term average spanning 167 years. This winter so far, temperatures have been averaging 10.8 degrees for minimums, 19.5 degrees for maximums. Combining the city's overnight minimums and daytime maximums gives an average of 15.1 degrees so far. This is 0.6 degrees warmer than the previous record to August 8th, set in 2013. Being warmer than average by as much as 2.3 degrees may seem like quite a lot. However, so far this century, all winters have been warmer than the long-term average. It's been quite a while since winter has been colder than the long-term norm. Most of us wouldn't remember it, 48 years ago, in 1978. The city failed to cool below six degrees last winter and is on track to do the same this winter. Since temperatures have been recorded in 1859, the city has cooled below six degrees an average of 8 or 9 times each winter. The heat-island effect (from heat-absorbing concrete) is one of the main factors why big cities don't cool as much as when they were smaller, or as much as their surrounding area. Notably warm winter extending to western suburbs and much of NSW In Sydney's far southwest, Camden, typically several degrees colder than the city on a winter night, is also experiencing a notably mild winter. Camden has only chilled below zero degrees once, on July 24th. This is the longest it has taken to dip below freezing in 30 years. The first frost of the season is typically in June. It's been a similar story for much of New South Wales, even much of eastern and northern Australia. Images: Mean temperature anomaly for June and July 2026. Source: Bureau of Meteorology An early look at the remainder of winter Looking ahead, a few wintry cold fronts in the next week will keep Sydney fairly chilly and breezy, most likely causing the running seasonal-average temperature to drop a little. By mid-August, fronts should become weaker and less frequent, allowing for a few warmer spells to develop in between. Image: Sydney's next 30-day temperature forecast on the Weatherzone app. By the end of this month, Sydney and other parts of eastern and northern Australia are a fair chance to have achieved their warmest winter on record.
07 Aug 2026, 11:44AM UTC
Huge northwest cloudband arrives over Australia ahead of widespread rain
Satellite images captured a large northwest cloudband developing over Australia on Friday, revealing an atmospheric river that will deliver widespread rain across Australia over the weekend and early next week. The animation below uses enhanced water vapour satellite imagery to show tropical moisture extending more than 5,000 km from the Indian Ocean towards South Australia on Friday afternoon. Image: Enhanced water vapour satellite images captured on Friday, August 7, 2026. Source: Weatherzone. While Friday’s cloudband did not deliver too much wet weather, that’s about to change. The cloudband will interact with a cold front to produce widespread rain across a broad area of southern and southeastern Australia this weekend into Monday. Widespread falls of 20 to 40 mm are likely across parts of WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas and the ACT between now and Monday. Some areas in Vic and southern NSW could see 50-100 mm over this period, while parts of SA could receive 30 to 60 mm. Image: Forecast accumulated rain between Friday and Monday. Source: Weatherzone. The rain developing this weekend could cause flooding in some states, most likely in Vic and southern NSW. A flood watch was issued for parts of Vic on Friday and further flood watches and warnings may come out over the weekend. In addition to the rain, this system is also likely to cause damaging winds, snow, hail and thunderstorms across southern and southeastern Australia between Saturday and Monday. Check the latest forecasts and warnings in your area for the most up-to-date information in the coming days.