Tyne Logan

In 2009 a blanket of heat smothered south-eastern Australia, killing hundreds and melting cities. This is the story of how this event served as a wake-up call for Australia to manage extreme heat.

It's mad to think that the humble difference between a nail and a screw played a central part in Darwin's undoing when Cyclone Tracy struck.

Program: Presented by In 1999 a hailstorm like no other came out of nowhere and rained down across Sydney, Australia's most populous city.

This is not the start of a post-apocalyptic movie. Actually, it's Melbourne in 2009.

Ben Cropp likes to think of the ocean as the great humbler. "The wonderful thing when you get out at sea, the big knob comes down to your level.

It's official — 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first calendar year in which the earth was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times.

Australia's summer weather is firing on all cylinders this weekend, with severe storms in the east set to make way for heatwaves in the west, and what could be the first cyclone to form near the mainland this season.

A heatwave is set to spread across more than half the country this week, as a cyclone spinning over waters to the west of Australia helps "block" the weather pattern and channel hot, dry winds into the west and east.

Multiple cyclones could potentially form across northern Australia by the end of this week and into next, in a late but mighty show of the monsoon, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned.

"Baking heat" is set to spread into Australia's south-east this weekend, while north Queensland can expect intense rainfall.