Boxing Day weather live updates: Melbourne airport flight delays with lightning ‘within 5km’; more Queensland and NSW storms forecast

Melbourne airport has said travellers can expect delays for the rest of today as a result of the severe thunderstorm moving across the city.

A spokesperson said the airport is experiencing airborne delays, with flights holding and circling for anything between 20 and 40 minutes waiting to land.

While we’ve got lightning within five kilometres of the airfield, ground handlers can’t be out on the airfield, so that…