Weatherzone, By: Ben McBurney, 05/12/2013

Both Sydney and Canberra have woken up to dense morning fog to kick off Mother's Day. The Sydney Basin saw its most widespread thick fog of the year, as light winds combined with high moisture levels.

Sydney city had its visibility reduced down to 50 metres, while in some western suburbs it was even lower. In Sydney's north, it was a mix of smoke haze and fog due to back burning in the area over the last two days. Sydney's airport largely missed out, with light morning fog only causing minimal disruptions to flights.

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Weatherzone, By: Mellissa Mackellar, 05/11/2013

Melbourne is on track to have its hottest run of May days in over a century, but wintry days are just around the corner. It was warmer than 25 degrees on both Thursday and Friday, more than eight degrees above average, making it the hottest pair of May days since 2002. The nights have also been warm, sitting at least four degrees above the normal May minimum of 10 degrees since Thursday.

Locals will be pleased to hear that the mercury is set to tip 25 degrees again today, making it three days in a row. If it gets that warm, it will be the longest run of 25 degree days in May since way back in 1866.

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Weatherzone, By: Olivia Garnett, 05/10/2013

WA's main grain handler, the CBH Group, is optimistic of achieving crop levels of between 10 and 15 million tonnes for the 2013-14 harvest.

General Manager Operations for the CBH Group, Colin Tutt, says that recent rain has made for the best start across the state for several years. "We do recognise that some areas are still a little bit dry and the rain has been a little bit patchy, but overall we're very, very pleased."

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Weatherzone, By: Stephanie Watson, 05/10/2013

Farmers in south-east NSW say they could have some of the best grass in the state at the moment. But the absence of a solid autumn break still has them worried.

Neil Waterson, a beef farmer in the Bega Valley, says all of the markets are flat because of an oversupply of cattle across the country.

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Weatherzone, By: Olivia Garnett, 05/09/2013

Farmers in one of the driest parts of the wheatbelt are very disappointed in the rain associated with this week's cold front.

Romolo Patroni is the Shire President of Yilgarn, he also farms at Marvel Loch in the eastern wheatbelt. "Very disappointing with the way the cold front came through." "The predictions that were being made as far as rainfall was concerned we expected to get at least somewhere between 10 and 20 millimetres but I think generally the area only received between four and six millimetres."

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