Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia

Warnings of extreme fire danger in SA regions, while Tropical Cyclone Hayley tracks towards WA Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Floods, fires and an approaching cyclone are threatening different parts of the Australia on Monday as severe weather continues into the final week of 2025. The flood situation across northern Queensland remained “dynamic”, according to Jonathan How, a forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology, with a slow-moving monsoon trough and low-pressure system expected to deliver further falls of 50mm to 100mm across the north-west, and 50mm to 150mm along the north-east tropical coast. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...