It was the near miss that went viral after a lightning bolt got strikingly close to a Qantas jet mid-air. A few months later and it has happened again.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of Sydney.

May and autumn will come close to being a record warm ones for Sydney, the state and the rest of Australia as the giant El Nino added a hot overlay to temperatures that are rising in the background here and in most parts of the world.

Melbourne could be hit with floods this week as recent rainfall puts pressure on catchments at capacity.

Stacy Smith's family were forced to quit their new beachside home after mould rotted the carpet of one of the children's bedrooms and infiltrated the walls and ceiling, resulting in dangerously high levels of mycotoxins.