Queanbeyan and Molonglo rivers have been issued a severe weather warning and remain on flood watch.

While the dry,calm, and mostly sunny days are making it seem that summer will never end, its demise is in sight.

Wednesday night may be on the cool side for Queensland visitors to the opening State of Origin match at Homebush but the overall conditions could hardly be better for football.

Sydney is in for a hot few days but the mercury should ease back to milder conditions on Christmas Day.

Canberrans spent much of Valentine's Day looking for ways to cool off and beat the heat as the capital sizzled.

The Earth is in the midst of an usually long spell between ice ages and the build-up of carbon dioxide emissions through the burning of fossil fuels may postpone the next glaciation event by at much as 100,000 years, according to new climate research.

Monday morning's grey drizzly skies will usher in a warmer than average work week, before a turn for the chilly on Friday.

A Kiama drone operator has told of his urgent efforts to raise the alarm after a shark made an unexpected appearance in his video, coming disturbingly close to unaware surfers.

It's only the second July federal election in Australian history - but the weather signs are good.

Sydney's run of unusually cold mornings will extend well into next week as mostly clear skies combine with light winds and a frigid air mass to sink the mercury.

The powerful El Nino continues to intensify in the Pacific and is now the strongest since the record-breaking 1997-98 event, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Residents across an arc of eastern Australia stretching from Queensland to Tasmania should be on watch for more potentially severe weather this weekend as another winter storm loom, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Don't forget the brolly: Melburnians are waking up to the third-wettest day of the year, and the rain isn't going away any time soon.

Damaging winds and blizzard conditions are forecast for the ACT and region from Monday to Wednesday.

Sydney could get its best weather for the year, with a week of gently warming days, lots of sunshine and little rain.

The trail of destruction left behind suggests the supercell storm that struck Forbes Creek south of Bungendore on Saturday was a tornado, on the same night Canberra had its highest daily rainfall for the month.

There's good news though - it won't get worse.

A broad and unpredictable trough stretching across south-east Australia could inundate Canberra with a month's worth of rain this weekend.

Weather-related disasters in the past two decades have killed more than 600,000 people and inflicted economic losses estimated at trillions of dollars, the United Nations said Monday, warning that the frequency and impact of such events was set to rise.

The Coodardie cattle station may not be the most likely place to find a farm in sync with nature.

Tired of the rain? Get used to it - as four grey and wet days settle in over the city.

Top daily temperatures are on the rise for rest of the long weekend as clear skies and sunshine take the edge off the chilly start to winter.

As global temperatures in this super El Nino year march ever higher, there's one certainty in the chancy world of weather prediction: 2015 will be the hottest year ever recorded.

Parts of Sydney are copping the odd isolated thunderstorm on Monday afternoon, but the storms are unlikely to reach the severity of the weekend's tempest.

Moderate global warming that has occurred as a result of human emissions has quadrupled the frequency of certain heat extremes since the Industrial Revolution, study finds.