Power cuts have left swathes of France to battle a heatwave without air-conditioning as record temperatures strain power grids across western Europe.
Staff Writers
Europe has woken to another sweltering day along with news that dozens of people have drowned while trying to cool off from a heatwave gripping the continent.
Sudip Kar-Gupta and Sarah Young
Thousands of schools in France are closing and a red alert has been issued in parts of Spain as a deadly heatwave sweeps across Europe.
Emma Pinedo and Hugo Lhomedet
More than 50 swimmers jumped into the icy water at Bicton Baths to commemorate the winter solstice after Perth recorded an overnight minimum of just 10.8C.
Jessica Evensen
Perth will be layering up this weekend as temperatures stay low across the metropolitan area, after the city shivered through the coldest mornings recorded this year.
Katherine Kraayvanger
Perth has endured another bitterly cold morning, with temperatures plunging close to freezing across the metro area as the city shivers through one of its coldest starts to winter.
Troy de Ruyter
Perth is shivering through the coldest morning of the year and one of the chilliest in three years.
Brooke Rolfe
Tropical Storm Arthur - the first of the Atlantic season - is threatening the southern United States with dangerous flash flooding.
Wet and windy weather has settled in for much of the country as intense and damaging conditions slowly stretch over almost every state.
Alexandra Feiam
Weather experts have officially declared El Nino is underway in the Pacific, warning no two events are the same so it will be difficult to predict how it will impact Australia.
Emma Kirk
Winter is officially here, with Perth residents awaking to the coldest morning since last July.
Tegwen Bescoby
A severe thunderstorm warning for WA’s south has been cancelled on Monday as temperatures plunge across the Perth metropolitan area.
Get your puffers out! Perth will be shivering through single-digit temperatures overnight across the week, as the mercury drops to as low as 3C after a week of rain.
Something unusual is unfolding across Australia’s weather maps this winter, with conditions behaving differently to what many would expect in June.
Tia Clarkson-Pascoe and Andrew Hedgman
Perth is set for a drenching on Sunday as a possible thunderstorm and chilly temperatures round out a week of wild weather.
Two weather fronts have swept across Australia, bringing “pretty significant” rainfall to millions this weekend, with South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania set to be hit hardest.
Cameron Micallef
Residents have been told to expect more bad weather as they head into the weekend, with thunderstorms set to lash parts of WA.
Zosia Melanczuk
Alarm bells are ringing among insurers and climate experts who say barely one-third of Aussies are prepared for bushfire season.
Jack Nivison
Residents in Perth are set to see another round of wet weather, with rain hitting much of the city on Thursday morning.
The South West could be in for another brutal summer with the Bureau Of Meteorology expecting less than average rainfall over winter for the region.
Craig Duncan
A state of emergency has been declared for parts of Wellington as New Zealand's weather bureau warns of waves up to nine metres along the city's south coast.
Video has captured water pouring through the ceiling of a shoe store at Rockingham Centre after heavy rain overwhelmed the roof during Perth’s latest bout of wild weather. SEE THE FOOTAGE
Troy de Ruyter, Brooke Rolfe and Claire Sadler
West Aussies woke to more wild weather, with strong winds hitting much of the State this morning.
Claire Sadler
Shoppers received a wild shock Monday afternoon when the ceiling inside a shoe shop in Perth’s south gave way and water from heaving rain began spewing onto the floor.
