The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has had to introduce a new color -- deep purple -- to account for the record-breaking heat. The bureau's interactive weather forecasting chart previously ...

A powerful cold front which has been brewing in the Indian Ocean is making its way towards the Australian continent, bringing ...

How Australia's first weather chart predicted a hunger for forecasts. By Peter Hannam. February 4, ... "Certainly by the 1890s, you start to see weather charts appearing regularly," Dr Trewin said.

Wild, wintry weather to lash southern Australia with snow, rain and potentially damaging winds to accompany two significant ...

The report said Australia's climate “is increasingly influenced by global warming” and the nation has warmed by just over one degree since 1910. Most warming has occurred since 1950.

Australia is facing record-breaking temperatures in next week’s forecast – a heat wave so intense that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has been forced to make new charts.. For the first ...

It is based on a database compiled by Accuweather, a weather forecasting media company. Here are highlights from the 2015 data, and a look at how the chart has evolved over the past 37 previous years.

Australia on Tuesday recorded its hottest day on record, with an average temperature across the country of 40.9 degrees Celsius, or 105.6 degrees Fahrenheit — passing the 2013 record of 40.3 C.

Christmas Day is looking dry and sunny for most of the country, with a distinctive lack of rain-producing low-pressure systems, troughs or cold fronts appearing on the charts.