Sydneysiders are facing peak-hour chaos following a massive thunderstorm that caused widespread power outages, leading to flight, train and traffic delays.
Tropical Cyclone Lincoln is crossing the coast as a category one system between the Northern Territory-Queensland border and Port McArthur in the territory.
As the storm moves further inland intense rainfall is still hitting the region with a forecast also for possible damaging winds and life-threatening flash flooding.
Imagine a five-metre-high block of ice stretching across all of Victoria. That's the previously undiscovered amount lost from Greenland's glaciers over the past decades.
Australia could be impacted by two cyclones within the next week, with one bearing down on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and another potentially forming off the Queensland coast on Monday.