Canberrans still wringing themselves out from the wettest June on record shouldn't put away their gumboots just yet.

The restart of Sydney's desalination plant is proceeding faster than expected, helping to slow the drawdown of the city's reservoirs amid the ongoing drought.

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.

A much-anticipated cool change took its time making it to Sydney, dragging out another unseasonably hot day.

Sydneysiders got down to cleaning up their damaged properties on Friday after destructive winds accompanying a sudden cool change broke up the 40-degree heat a day earlier.

Can't make it to the beach because of work? Don't fret, there's some excellent weather coming this weekend.

A severe storm is expected to narrowly miss Canberra on Monday afternoon.

Search-and-rescue teams have located debris appearing to belong to the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin with 33 mostly American crew members aboard more than three days ago.

Sydney in for scorching weather on Friday as a slow-moving high-pressure system steers a huge hot air mass formed over Australia's Red Centre to the country's south-east.

It will snow in the ACT tonight as a cold front moves over the region, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

The mercury dropped to -5.1 degrees on Sunday morning, but it felt even colder, with an apparent temperative of -8.6 degrees just before the sun came up.

Electricity demand surged to its highest in Sydney and the rest of the state for the summer as a burst of inland heat sent the mercury into the low 40s in the city's west.

A high-pressure system "as big as Australia" could bring Sydney's warmest patch of weather since April, while most of the country will go for a week with little rain.

Many of Sydney's commuters are in for a sweltering journey to and from work today as temperatures soar towards the high 30s ahead a late afternoon cool change.

Growing winds and driving rain from Hurricane Hermine lashed Florida's northern Gulf Coast on Friday as forecasters warned of "life-threatening" floods.

Gloucester Resources has dropped plans to appeal against a court decision that blocked its planned mine in part because of its climate change impacts.

Time to dig out the electric blanket.

When Steve Douglas drove by a neighbourhood street corner, he spotted a new and rare species of eucalyptus tree. After 25 years, more than a hundred of these trees are being planted in a secret location in a national park.

A powerful cold front is set to bring 'dangerous' conditions to large parts of south-eastern Australia in coming days and send temperatures plummeting in Sydney.

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