Australia’s morning TV show hosts battled brutal weather conditions on the Gold Coast on Wednesday to deliver their pre-Commonwealth Games opening ceremony broadcasts, producing hilarious results.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, a high pressure system has merged with Cyclone Iris’ low pressure system, resulting in wind gusts of up to 50km/h and showers that threaten to ruin Wednesday night’s opening ceremony.

Today‘s Karl Stefanovic and Georgie Gardner and Sunrise’s Samantha Armytage and David Koch all struggled to keep their hair and dignity in tact as winds and rain buffeted their outdoor sets.

At the start of Today‘s early morning, beachside broadcast from Surfers Paradise, Gardner joked: “We are definitely live. Wow, Queensland, beautiful one day, perfect the next.”

Her co-host Stefanovic was less than impressed with the weather, sarcastically telling viewers, “It’s one of those mornings you wake up and see you the sun shining and you just go, ‘I’m glad to be alive’. Horizontal rains, high winds, a tempest.”

'Do the show from the beach on the Gold Coast', they said. 'It'll be fun', they said! @sophiemonk joined us in the sunshine and as usual, she was a great sport! #9Today pic.twitter.com/pGvQWyvMlV

— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) April 3, 2018

“As Dickie [Richard Wiklins] pointed out, you know it’s windy when the croissants are blowing away,” Gardner added.

Wilkins, meanwhile, laughed through his entertainment segments as his hair went haywire.

Stefanovic deemed the weather “dangerous”, before his run sheet began escaping from its clipboard and blowing across the screen.

When guest Sophie Monk joined Gardner and Stefanovic on the show hours later, they had resorted to using towels for shelter from the rain.

The hosts of Today‘s competitor, Seven’s Sunrise, were also under the weather, so to speak, but managed to avoid the bulk of the wind and rain with a more substantial studio set-up on the beach.

News presenter Edwina Bartholomew, however, was forced to film her segments without shelter, instead resorting to a large umbrella, while Armytage briefly ventured outside the set and was buffeted by winds a BoM meteorologist said were averaging 35km/h.

Bit windy @Sam_Armytage..? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/S5LlbdQghc

— Sunrise (@sunriseon7) April 3, 2018

Unfortunately for Commonwealth Games organisers and attendees, the wet weather will continue until the weekend, which BoM meteorologist Adam Blazak told The New Daily is, thankfully, “looking lovely”.

Until Saturday, however, Commonwealth Games athletes and spectators will have to endure sporadic shower activity, with particularly heightened chances of rainfall during the Games’ opening ceremony.

“From 7pm [Wednesday night] we’ll probably see increased shower activity around the Gold Coast, weakening around midnight,” Mr Blazak said. 

The good news? While it may be wet and windy during a pivotal period for the Gold Coast, it won’t be too chilly.

“We’ll see temperatures in the mid to high 20s for the rest of the week.”