...was the one we just had.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-...hottest-summer-on-record/4547746?WT.svl=news2
Key Points:
- Hottest summer on record across all weather stations, even if you take the extreme heat wave in the first half of January out of the readings
- Previous record was 97/98
- And the last six months have been hotter than any six months before
- 14 of 112 weather stations broke their maximum temperature records in just this year alone
- "Now we're setting daytime and night-time records around Australia at a very (much) more frequent rate than we were in the past and they outnumber cold records by five to one in some instances."
- It was hot on both sides of the country, where usually if it's hot on one side it's cooler on the other side
- Rainfall overall was below average, despite a number of well documented extreme weather (flood) events
- This all occurred despite there being no El Nino event in place, which is usually a key factor in increasing summer temperatures
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-...hottest-summer-on-record/4547746?WT.svl=news2
Key Points:
- Hottest summer on record across all weather stations, even if you take the extreme heat wave in the first half of January out of the readings
- Previous record was 97/98
- And the last six months have been hotter than any six months before
- 14 of 112 weather stations broke their maximum temperature records in just this year alone
- "Now we're setting daytime and night-time records around Australia at a very (much) more frequent rate than we were in the past and they outnumber cold records by five to one in some instances."
- It was hot on both sides of the country, where usually if it's hot on one side it's cooler on the other side
- Rainfall overall was below average, despite a number of well documented extreme weather (flood) events
- This all occurred despite there being no El Nino event in place, which is usually a key factor in increasing summer temperatures