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Recently the Weather Channel in Australia spent and great deal of time (and money!) doing a complete remake of its website. ...

Jet streams Early in the twentieth century, meteorologists predicted that there would be high-speed rivers of air in certain areas of both h...

--> It was the afternoon of October 18 th 1968, and the occasion was the long jump final of the Mexico City Olympic games. Bo...

By world standards, mountains in Australia are not very tall with the highest peak being Mount Kosciusko at only 2235 metres. However, ext...

Photograph: HMAS "Arrow" lies wrecked in Darwin Harbour following tropical cyclone "Tracy" in December 1974. Image: Wiki...

There is no universally accepted definition of a “heatwave” so to a certain extent we can make up our own. A simple and easy to remember def...

2009 turned out to be a year of amazing weather extremes - hot and cold, wet and dry with many records being set along the way. Here are som...