Major flooding in regional Queensland has exposed a 1,200-kilometre blind spot in weather radar systems. | Sky News Australia

🌡️ Heat will build across much of Australia over the weekend, with widespread warmer temperatures forecast. Many places will be between 2°C and 8°C higher than average between Monday and Wednesday, with even greater warm temperature anomalies in inland areas. Heatwave conditions are forecast across a broad area of northern and central Australia, with Heatwave Warnings likely to be issued. A heatwave is when the maximum and minimum temperatures are unusually hot over 3 days. This is compared to

The radar of south-east Australia this morning shows showers and thunderstorms for many areas. A cold front crossed parts of southern South Australia before dawn this morning, producing storms and damaging wind gusts. A line of heavy showers and severe thunderstorms then moved across the Adelaide area and the Mount Lofty Ranges early this morning, bringing further strong to damaging wind gusts. Some of the top wind gusts observed include: • 106 km/hr at Outer Harbour, SA • 96 km/hr at Adelaide A