Weather tracker: cyclone warning in Australia while Finland freezes in -16C lows | Extreme heat

A cyclone warning has been issued in northern Australia for coastal communities from the island of Groote Eylandt to the Northern Territory/Queensland border. Tropical Cyclone Megan, which developed throughout the Gulf of Carpentaria on Saturday, has been declared a category 3 cyclone by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Megan is forecast to make landfall on Monday, nonetheless has already launched gale-force winds and heavy rainfall to some areas over the weekend. Groote Eylandt was reduce off after larger than 400mm of rain in merely 24 hours on Sunday.

There is a probability that Megan may strengthen extra proper into a category 4 storm sooner than making landfall, with the potential for damaging wind gusts of as a lot as 125km/h. Megan is the fifth named cyclone in Australian waters so far this season, which is beneath the widespread of about 10 by this stage of the 12 months.

Finland has had a relatively mild start to March, however it certainly turned colder over the weekend, with a snowstorm bringing as a lot as 10-15cm of snow and freezing temperatures to parts of the nation on Sunday. The low temperatures look set to proceed over the following few days, with minimal temperatures as little as -16C anticipated in Tampere, spherical 10C beneath the seasonal widespread for this time of 12 months. Temperatures are anticipated to return to spherical or just above widespread as soon as extra by the highest of the week.

Within the meantime South Sudan is closing all schools indefinitely from Monday in response to an extreme heatwave, which is extra more likely to persist for on the very least the following two weeks, with temperatures anticipated to broadly attain 41-45C, with highs nearer to 50C throughout the hottest spots. In a single day temperatures will even keep stubbornly extreme, not falling loads beneath 27-28C. Temperatures throughout the capital, Juba, usually tend to hit 40-42C every day this week.