<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A huge wet weather system is moving eastward across Australia today, promising rain for most states and territories into the weekend.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Bureau of Meteorology said in a forecast the major cold front that had brought storms and wild weather to Western Australia earlier this week would move on to South Australia and the Northern Territory today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>And parts of western New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria will also start to feel the front's effects later this afternoon and evening.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hulk-hogan-death-professional-wrestling-icon-dies-aged-71/59ffe311-b3cc-4b61-b162-1c5bd463ab9d" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A high-pressure system is set to ease conditions in Western Australia after a wild few days, which included a suspected tornado tearing through Perth.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The weather in NSW is expected to be cold but sunny for much of the day, dropping as low as -5 degrees in Canberra with a top of 18 in Sydney.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Heavy rain and strong winds are expected in the state's west this afternoon, before moving eastward into Saturday.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/wet-weather-for-most-of-the-country-friday-weekend-forecast/f9a2f324-67f5-4733-b572-2679a662ecdb" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/potential-tornado-uproots-trees-and-triggers-flash-flooding-in-perth-western-australia/569c4015-467e-4f65-920f-c14c37605463" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'My wife would have been dead': Freak tornado carves path of destruction</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Victoria's west is also expecting falls of up to 25 ml this afternoon and evening, which will be welcome rain for drought-wracked regional areas.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Melbourne is looking at a cold and windy day with a top of 14.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Things will be warmer in Queensland, with temperatures approaching 30 degrees for most of the day, before patchy rain and storms in the state's west and south-west later in the day.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/breakthrough-in-search-for-daughter-who-went-missing-25-years-ago/092dd61d-594d-48fc-86f0-518532230288" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Breakthrough in search for daughter who went missing 25 years ago</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2025/07/24/09/11/today-in-history-july-25-what-happened-on-this-day"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/9kYtI_i4T0cFqyws87bqRg4C9WM=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fec544f8e-6718-4153-911a-cf17ba3a72c7" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/9kYtI_i4T0cFqyws87bqRg4C9WM=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fec544f8e-6718-4153-911a-cf17ba3a72c7 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/DU5oMi870XkCpO2_tCsT8yP2rgs=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fec544f8e-6718-4153-911a-cf17ba3a72c7 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">Scientists told patients they were being treated for a fatal disease - 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