Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane weather: Millions of rain-weary Aussies brace for more wild weather this weekend – but it’s good news for tennis fans

Millions on the east coast are hunkering down for a weekend of wild weather but it’s good news for tennis fans heading to the Australian Open.

Sydney was still being lashed with rain on Friday morning after a week of wild storms and downpours, with the chance of showers increasing in the afternoon and evening.

More showers are forecast for the Harbour City on Saturday before skies are expected to clear on Sunday with temperatures reaching just 23C.

Damaging winds were also possible along the NSW coastline with gusts of up to 55km/hour to 65km/hour expected on Friday.

Brisbane is also bracing for a wet weekend with the chance of a thunderstorm on Friday and showers on through the weekend before the sun returns on Monday.

It’s a different story for Melbourne, however, with showers expected to clear on Friday and the mercury to soar past 30C on Saturday and Sunday.

Elsewhere in the country, Darwin will receive a weekend of rain with possible storms, while Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart will stay relatively dry.

It comes after severe thunderstorms smashed Australia’s east coast this week.

Sydney was still being lashed with rain on Friday, with the chance of showers increasing in the afternoon and evening (pictured is a Weatherzone map of the weather in NSW on Friday)

Damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rainfall smashed not only Sydney but also the Hunter, the Mid North Coast, Illawarra, Central Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains and Northern Tablelands districts.

One man in the NSW Central West town of Cowra was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle and more than 200,000 homes across Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong were left without power on Wednesday due to lightning strikes.

Up to 73,700 strikes detected within 100km of the CBD on Wednesday, according to Weatherzone. A total of 1.8million lightning strikes were detected in an arc from Queensland to Tasmania across 24 hours.

Sydney

Friday: Showers. Up to 25mm of rain. Winds up to 60km/h. Min 18C Max 24C.

Saturday: Showers. Up to 15mm of rain. Winds up to 40km/h. Min 19C Max 25C.

Sunday: Showers. Up to 1mm of rain. Winds up to 20km/h. Min 19C Max 24C.

Tennis fans will be blessed with clear skies on Saturday and Sunday in Melbourne (pictured is people arriving on the first day of the 2025 Australian Open)

Melbourne

Friday: Showers. Up to 1mm of rain. Winds up to 30km/h. Min 16C Max 23C.

Saturday: Sunny. Winds up to 30km/h. Min 15C Max 29C.

Sunday: Sunny. Winds up to 20km/h. Min 15C Max 32C.

Brisbane

Friday: Showers. Up to 4mm of rain. Light winds. Min 20C Max 31C.

Saturday: Showers. Up to 15mm of rain. Winds up to 25km/h. Min 21C. Max 28C

Sunday: Showers. Chance of thunderstorms. Up to 4mm of rain. Winds up to 35km/h. Min 21C Max 28C.

Canberra

Friday: Sunny. Winds up to 35km/h. Min 9C Max 24C.

Saturday: Partly cloudy. Winds up to 30km/h. Min 11C. Max 22C

Sunday: Sunny. Winds up to 25km/h. Min 10C Max 26C.

Adelaide

Friday: Sunny. Winds up to 30km/h. Min 16C Max 31C.

Saturday: Sunny. Winds up to 40km/h. Min 19C. Max 35C

Sunday: Sunny. Winds up to 25km/h. Min 20C Max 36C.

A rainy weekend was also forecast for Brisbane, with the chance of a thunderstorm later on Friday and the sun only re-emerging on Monday (pictured, heavy rain in Sydney)