Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cost Australia about A$1.2 billion, impacting the GDP by reducing it by a quarter ...

Areas north of Townsville are set for a drenching today, but it is unlikely a tropical low forming in the Gulf of Carpentaria ...

The Australian treasury expects costs from Tropical Cyclone Alfred to be about A$1.2 billion ($759 million), shaving off a quarter of a percentage point from its gross domestic product in the March ...

Rio Tinto has donated $1 million to the Australian Red Cross, a non-profit community services charity, in a bid to help ...

Suncorp Group has pledged a $500,000 community recovery package to support areas impacted by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, ...

East Asia experienced significant drops in temperatures this weekend, which could lead to flooding rainfall over Indonesia ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say on Tuesday that though it is still too early to quantify the cyclone’s full impacts on the economy, the event would dent the country’s quarterly growth, according to ...

Ex-Cyclone Alfred has blown a $1.2 billion hole in the upcoming federal budget, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred was just another reminder that extreme weather events are becoming the norm as the impacts of climate ...

Australia's weather is influenced by many climate drivers ... This results in a cooling of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. The enhanced trade winds also help to pile up warm surface ...

storm surges and heavy rainfall and flooding. There has been a downward trend in the number of tropical cyclones observed in the Australian region since reliable satellite observations began in 1982.

A tropical low is expected to form off the WA coast later this week. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a weak system ...