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22/10/2026

Close to 300 mm of rain has fallen in parts of southeast Qld between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon. ☔️ This deluge has broken October records and caused dangerous flash flooding. So, why has there been so much rain in the last couple of days?

Close to 300 mm of rain has fallen in parts of southeast Queensland between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.

22/10/2026

An overnight deluge in South East Queensland and the northeastern corner of NSW has intensified during Thursday morning, with flash-flooding occurring in many places. ⚠️

💧 The highest recorded 24-hour total was a massive 263 mm at the Caboolture Water Treatment Plant, just north of Brisbane.

Heaviest rain in many months in South East Queensland, North East New South Wales, with October rainfall records broken as 170 mm falls in three hours.

21/10/2026

An outbreak of thunderstorms has produced heavy localised rainfall across a large swathe of northern NSW and southern Queensland on Wednesday afternoon, with storm activity continuing into the evening. ⚡️

Bourke received 28 mm of rainfall in about two hours, exceeding its October monthly average of 26.1 millimetres in prolonged NSW/Queensland storm outbreak.

21/10/2026

Super Typhoon Champi is the strongest tropical cyclone of 2026 so far, based on peak wind speed. 🌀 It rapidly intensified to the east of the Philippines, now carrying wind gusts up to 365km/h.

Its huge eye, which was about 30 NM in diameter on Wednesday morning, can be seen clearly in these satellite images.

The system will weaken as it moves towards the northwest in the coming days, but it will impact parts of Japan's Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan later this week.

21/10/2026

Hobart could see two 30°C days this week as a severe heatwave continues to affect parts of southern and eastern Tasmania, although a cold change is on the way.

20/10/2026

Persistent and heavy rain will affect parts of Queensland and NSW during at least the next seven days, with some areas possibly in line to receive more than one month’s rain in a matter of days. ☔️

Persistent and heavy rain will affect parts of Queensland and NSW during at least the next seven days.

20/10/2026

The temperature in Melbourne looks set to hit the 30-degree mark for the first time since March, 🌡️ with maximums of 30°C forecast for both this Thursday and Friday.

Melbourne is having a warmer-than-average spring yet it hasn't hit 30 degrees yet. That is set to change this week.

19/10/2026

An unusually slow-moving high pressure system centred over the Tasman Sea will cause a contrasting mix of weather across Australia this week, with heavy rain and thunderstorms in the country’s east and a spring heatwave in parts of the south.

An unusually slow-moving high pressure system centred over the Tasman Sea will cause a contrasting mix of weather across Australia this week.

19/10/2026

It's currently a lot cooler than usual for October in South East Queensland and a lot warmer than usual in Tasmania. But why?

A large high pressure system centred over the Tasman Sea is causing cool October weather in Brisbane southeast Queensland while Hobart is unseasonably warm.

16/10/2026

A large mass of thunderstorms known as a Mesoscale Convective Complex (MCC) produced around 400,000 lightning strikes ⚡️ as it passed over parts of Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.

A large Mesoscale Convective Complex, or MCC, produced around 400,000 lightning strikes over parts of WA, SA and the NT this week.