Freezing Sunday rain and winds saw Mothers Day picnics cancelled in the capital, while light snow dusted the mountains earlier in the morning.

El Nino assists January to have the biggest increase over the previous record for any month in a more than a century of records

Parts of the ACT and Snowy Mountains have been warned to expect damaging winds in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Sydney commuters are in for an easier run home as the worst of the wintry weather dissipates for the day - and probably the rest of the month.

As of 9am on Friday, Melbourne was the hottest capital city in Australia. And that's not about to change.

On a sunny Friday morning grower David McIntyre packed his walnuts and set out from the tiny Victorian town of Stanley to plead with beer giant Asahi to stop buying the water from beneath him.

It seemed to sneak up on us, this storm that washed away houses and swept away lives, that devoured beaches and turned suburban railway lines into rivers.

Even Sydney's burst of early spring warmth couldn't escape the odd quirky political link.

Meteorologists predicted the southerly buster would hit the city from about 5am on Wednesday, and that's precisely when it swept over Sydney Airport.

Still plenty of winter left to get a winning picture in for your chance to win a prizes in the photo competition.

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.

Water has started spilling over the Warragamba Dam wall for the first time since 2013, but the flood threat for low-lying areas along the Nepean River has been revised downwards.

An unusual orange tinge in Melbourne's sky on Wednesday night is the result of the fires in Western Australia, almost 3000 kilometres away.

November proved to be a warm chaser to a thirsty October, with temperatures hovering two degrees above average.

Sydneysiders can expect rising humidity in coming days, making the apparently endless summer seem a bit more uncomfortable.

Drone vision of great white shark lurking near unsuspecting surfers emerges

Sydney, the rain is coming to drench your balmy spring, and it is set to remain for a week. But it will bring a much needed relief for allergy sufferers.

Destruction of more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat has been approved by the federal government in the past decade, a report shows.

Time to dig out the electric blanket.

Residents outraged as hundreds scheduled to lose power in 40 degree heat.

Hume Coal’s mine and rail project applications have been referred back to the Independent Planning Commission for a public hearing and determination within 12 weeks.

Heavy snowfalls over the central ranges all the way up to New England caused traffic chaos on NSW roads on Friday, a day when even Queenslanders woke to a blanket of white.

For the first time this year the mercury has dipped below zero in Canberra.

You can hold off putting that extra doona on your bed for another week, Canberra.

At least 10 people have died in northern Japan after a powerful typhoon pounded the region.