Cyclone

While the official start of cyclone season isn't until November, Tropical Cyclone Lola has formed off Fiji.

Forecasters are unsure about how the weather system will track over coming days.

Meteorologists are closely monitoring a storm system forming off the Queensland coast, which could develop into a tropical cyclone.

Get ready for more frequent heatwaves and bushfires, but fewer cyclones - that's the message from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) in its newly released long-range forecast.

The typhoon is packing maximum sustained winds of 155km/h and gusts of up to 190km/h.

Cyclone Mocha has collapsed houses, felled trees and severely compromising communication lines in the conflict-racked state of Rakhine.

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing roofs off buildings and killing at least three people.

A tropical cyclone is strengthening in the Bay of Bengal and is on course to hit western Myanmar and Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, the world's largest refugee camp.

A class action has been launched over a cruise that allegedly sailed from Brisbane into the path of a category 5 cyclone in 2017.

A group of Indonesian fishermen have been rescued after six days stranded on a tiny island off the coast of Western Australia.

The category 5 storm delivered the strongest wind gusts ever recorded in Australia and a hefty damage bill in its wake but there could be more yet to come as threat remains.

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa was the most damaging weather event in Western Australia in more than a decade.

Authorities are warning some communities to remain indoors as the weather system tracks east.

Arnold Carter has lived in Port Hedland for 63 years, where he worked as an accountant in the iron ore industry.

Hundreds of residents made the call to stay behind as Western Australia's most powerful storm in more than a decade passed by.

Ilsa, an intense storm system swirling off Western Australia, is now expected to become a Category 5 cyclone, the strongest category in the rating system.

Rapidly-developing Tropical Cyclone Ilsa is expected to become a category four storm by the time it makes landfall in Western Australia.

Western Australians are warned to prepare for a tropical cyclone that may make landfall on the north coast of the state next week.

Residents in coastal areas should be breathing easier as the storm weakens in coming hours.

Forecasters said the weather system will intensify over coming hours.

An Australian woman newly returned from New Zealand has described the "apocalyptic" scenes in parts of the North Island hit by Cyclone Gabrielle.

More than 600 Australian Defence Force personnel are on board HMAS Canberra and two RAAF aircrafts have already been deployed to provide aid to the pacific nation.

Back-to-back earthquakes have struck Vanuatu as the country prepares for its second major tropical cyclone in as many days.

Residents were barricading themselves inside as a red alert was issued by authorities in the country's capital Port Villa, meaning people shouldn't leave their homes unless absolutely necessary.

In about an hour, the time-lapse video shows water levels rising to almost engulf a property's fence.

Firefighters have shared photos of a huge grassfire raging across north-eastern Victoria.

A total of 175 couples tied the knot during a mass wedding officiated by the Manila government as part of the city's Valentine's Day celebrations.

The mother of a two-year-old New Zealand girl swept away in a torrent of water says her daughter was a bright shining light who charged through life, regardless of what stood in her way.

Two brothers in New Zealand have embraced after believing each other had perished in floodwaters.

Dave Van Zwanenberg was killed after a landslide flattened a house north-west of Auckland while carrying out a rescue operation.

Cyclone Gabrielle has claimed at least four lives in New Zealand and police have "grave concerns" for other residents who remain unaccounted for.

Air New Zealand is adding extra flights to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to recover passengers stranded in Australia

While driving down a hill, the ground suddenly disappeared from under the wheels of the silver vehicle.

Tens of thousands of Air New Zealand passengers' travel plans are in disarray after Cyclone Gabrielle smashed the North Island, and strong winds closed Auckland Airport

On the same day bushfires are burning out of control in the state, severe thunderstorms have hit south-east Queensland.

NZ woke up to widespread damage across the North Island as Cyclone Gabrielle moved closer.

Queensland residents have sweltered through another hot day as a heatwave lingers and fires continue to burn in parts of the state.

Cyclone Gabrielle has seen power cut to thousands of New Zealanders, cancelled flights, emergency response centres set up and warnings that the worst is still to come for many.

Air New Zealand said it was cancelling multiple long-haul international fights on Monday.

Residents on Norfolk Island have avoided the worst of tropical cyclone Gabrielle for now but have been warned of strengthening gale force winds.

The storm brewing 800km off Cairns is expected to develop into a severe category three storm, with one island community directly in the firing line.

Residents are waiting in trepidation as a dangerous tropical low is 'likely' to develop into a cyclone - but it's not the only one brewing in Australian waters.

Three potential tropical cyclones are lurking off the Queensland coast, with one expected to develop into a category three storm.

A tropical cyclone is forming off Western Australia and should make landfall this weekend, bringing possible wind speeds of up to 165km/h, forecasters say.

The system's "remarkable" behaviour has forecasters on high alert, and it's only the second storm this cyclone season.

Towns in the Western Australia's north are being threatened as the Kimberley flood emergency intensifies.

An emergency has been declared as rain from an ex-tropical cyclone refuses to let up in WA's Kimberley region.

Travellers in the US are bracing for one of the most treacherous Christmas weekends in decades.

The Category 1 storm, the first to make landfall this season, hit the Northern Territory coast, bringing heavy rainfall and wind gusts of up to 100 km/h.

The storm could bring gale force winds up to 100 kilometres per hour to an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.