Extreme heat and fires grip Australia | Homes lost in Victoria bushfires | Queensland cyclone threat

Emergency services in many parts of the country are being tested by some of the toughest weather conditions in years.

Authorities are urging people to take their warnings seriously.

Multiple properties have already been lost in major blazes in central Victoria.

Forecasters say a tropical low in north Queensland is likely to form a category 1 cyclone before it makes landfall.

Plus the sweltering temperatures that have been endured in many capital cities.

00:00 Australia is facing extreme weather across the country
00:59 Hot winds, and a dry countryside in Victoria has created some of the most dangerous bushfire conditions since ‘Black Summer’ in 2019-2020; three people – two adults and a child – remain unaccounted for
03:35 Reporter Tys Occhiuzzi has the latest on the fast-moving situation from outside the town of Seymour
04:57 A tropical low is forecast to develop into a category one cyclone off the north-east coast of Queensland, with a warning in place from Port Douglas to Tully
06:39 Elsewhere, there are parts of the country that are sweltering in temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, authorities warning conditions will worsen tomorrow

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