Meteorology News

SEVERE thunderstorm warnings have been issued for the northern rivers, mid north coast and northern tablelands regions of NSW following consistent rainfall in the past 24 hours.

The Meteorology Department warned today that the intermittent rain and sometimes heavy over Perlis, Kedah, North Perak and Pahang since yesterday was expected to continue until Sunday.

An armed police officer stands on guard at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on November 1, 2009.

LATEST: A SEVERE storm warning has been issued as forecasters fear flash flooding in southeast Queensland with storms already hitting areas of the Granite Belt.

One of the relatives of family members who died in a mass electrocution mourns Friday at a pagoda in Phnom Penh.

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A total fire ban is in place across the the Illawarra and Shoalhaven today as temperatures are expected to soar to 33 degrees.

LARGE hailstones, flash flooding and damaging winds have been forecast for parts of western Victoria in a Bureau of Meteorology severe thunderstorm warning.

A total fire ban has been imposed across western NSW, with the mercury expected to nudge 40 degrees in some parts of the state on Monday.

Sure, this year's Atlantic hurricane season has been slow with eight named storms, just two hurricanes and about $100,000 in damages to U.S. property.

President Obama has signed the final versions of the fiscal 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Act and the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, thus approving more than $1 million in federal funding for several Louisville projects requested by Rep.

Meteorology is like the main character in The Perfect Storm. Which makes sense on The Weather Channel - but as the network will soon find out, climate-centric movies aren't exactly a well-stocked cinematic genre.

Typhoon Mirinae, the fourth cyclone to wallop the Philippines in a month, was barreling toward the capital of Manila, where some districts are still submerged by recent massive flooding, forecasters said Friday.

A severe grassland fire danger warning has been issued for two southwest Queensland districts.

Agartala/The southwest monsoon has withdrawn from the northeastern region, which has suffered a 20 percent rainfall deficit this season, India Meteorology Department director Dilip Saha said Friday.

Friday was one of those nice fall days -- clear and sunny, with a cloud or two poking around the sky.

Scientists say a crater in Latvia initially thought to have been caused by a meteorite was really a hoax.

A meteorite-like object crashed into a meadow in northern Latvia, creating a crater 27 feet wide and 9 feet deep, a geologist who visited the site said Monday.

Rain is expected to ease over Sydney today following a 24-hour downpour that delivered parts of the city their biggest falls in a year.

The fire has burnt about 600 hectares of bushland in the Red Ridge Fire Trail area, 10km south of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains National Park.