Severe weather is set to divide the country, with December heat driving fire warnings in the west while rain, storms and cold air impact the east and south.<\/p>\n
Brisbane is forecast to reach 29 degrees with rain expected to continue as showers linger across southeast Queensland.<\/p>\n
Sydney will see a warm 31 degrees with wet showers developing, adding to humid and unsettled conditions along the east coast.<\/p>\n
Sky News Weather Meteorologist Marina Neuman said \u201cstill some showers sticking around after Sunday for many parts of the country\u201d, warning the wet pattern is slow to clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canberra is in for more settled conditions this weekend, with clearer weather expected to bring a calmer week for the capital.<\/p>\n
Melbourne\u2019s outlook remains unstable, with changing conditions bringing 26 degrees, storms on Saturday and gusty winds on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Perth is set to bake under extreme heat, with temperatures soaring to 40 degrees alongside the chance of storms and winds across parts of Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Hobart is bracing for a cold blast as Christmas fast approaches, with temperatures around 16 degrees and a chance of snowfall as very cold air moves in.<\/p>\n
Adelaide will reach 23 degrees on Sunday before heat builds through the end of next week, increasing fire risk across South Australia.<\/p>\n
Neuman said the Top End will remain unsettled with Darwin to reach 33, describing conditions as \u201cstormy and typical for this time of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Across southern Australia, storms and showers are expected to continue as unstable weather sweeps through the region.<\/p>\n
Elevated fire danger warnings are in place for multiple states as temperatures soar in South Australia and Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Neuman said rain is expected to linger for several days, with wet conditions continuing across the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe weather is set to divide the country, with December heat driving fire warnings in the west while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,112970,63,44,313,1192],"class_list":["post-345870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-aus","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-trending","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}