Queensland's coast has been a victim of the wild and aggressive weather.

With the huge possibility of sleet and snow to be witnessed on Friday morning, Queenslanders on the southern Darling Downs have already been cautioned about the same.

After a tropical storm struck in the north, authorities have cautioned that the wild weather is now moving towards Melbourne.

Senior forecaster of weather bureau, Kevin Parkyn has said that the storm would be the most significant weather event of Melbourne since March's hailstorm, which caused the damage of thousands of Dollars.

Temperatures in Shimla are rising rapidly as the city witnessed a temperature of 32.4 degree Celsius. This is the highest which has been witnessed in the city in the last 170 years of recorded data. It was higher than the earlier 31.7 degree Celsius recorded on 20 May, 2004.

The National Weather Service reported that a winter storm that pummeled New York City for two days has reportedly managed to break a monthly record for snowfall in Central Park that stood for 114 years.

The third major snowstorm of the month posed an adverse effect on travel by air, rail and road in and around New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday.

The journal Science has published a study about ‘El Nino’ – the warming patterns in the Pacific Ocean – which says that a change in the phenomenon is likely to be indicative of additional seasons of greater hurricane activity in the Atlantic, and an increased number of storms entering the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.

Federal forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. yesterday forecast that 14 named tropical storms will hit the United States this year.

"Hurricane season is upon us. We need to communicate down to the personal level - preparedness, now is the time," said Bill Read, National Hurricane Center director.