The Latest Breaking News from Jonathan How

Much of Australia is in for a drenching this week, with heavy rain forecast from the far north through to Tasmania.

Rainfall records are tumbling in parts of the country while the east enjoys a period of relative calm, but forecasters say that will not last long.

Severe weather warnings issued for Snowy Mountains as powerful cold front sweeps across parts of New South Wales and Victoria

Forecast for heavy rain, damaging winds and hazardous swells comes as a cold snap grips south-east Australia

More wild weather is on the way for parts of Queensland and NSW, with heavy rain, damaging winds and hazardous surf bringing the risk of coastal erosion.

People in the subtropical seaside town of Byron Bay could be forgiven for thinking they were in the snow fields last night after an intense hailstorm turned the streets white.

This is the fourth flood emergency to hit the city in 16 months

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State…

Flood crisis worsens in Australia’s largest city, parts of which have seen 3 rounds of flooding in a year and a half.