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The tropical savannah zone of Northern Australia is warm to hot all year. Summers are hot in most of the country with average January maximum temperatures exceeding 30 °C over most of the mainland, except for high elevations.
13 January 2022 Roebourne [2] 13 January 2022 50.3 °C (122.5 °F) South Australia Oodnadatta: 3 January 1960 50.1 °C (122.2 °F) New South Wales: Wilcannia: 11 January 1939 49.9 °C (121.8 °F) South Australia Nullarbor: 19 December 2019 Western Australia: Carnarvon: 18 February 2024 49.8 °C (121.6 °F) Western Australia: Mundrabilla Station
In Australia there was a 34% decrease in climate change articles published from March 2020. [219] A 2022 analysis found that Sky News Australia was a major source of climate misinformation globally. [220] Australia has recently experienced some of the most intense bushfire seasons in its immediate history. This phenomenon has sparked extensive ...
The city's highest recorded temperature was 43.2 °C (109.8 °F) on Australia Day 1940 at the Brisbane Regional Office, [10] with the highest temperature at the current station being 41.7 °C (107.1 °F) on 22 February 2004; [11] but temperatures above 38 °C (100 °F) are uncommon.
Australia could be heading for its third-warmest summer on record, with many places likely to experience a warmer and drier period than normal from March to May, weather authorities said on Thursday.
The Bureau of Meteorology reported that the summer of 2007–08 was the coolest in 11 years, the wettest in six years, the cloudiest in 16 years, and one of only three summers in recorded history to lack a maximum temperature above 31 °C (88 °F). [65] The Bureau of Meteorology reported that 2009 was a warm year.
The inland deserts of Australia are amongst the hottest areas on earth, particularly the inland parts of north-west Australia. Every summer, intense heat builds starting in the Pilbara district of Western Australia around October/November and spreading widely over the tropical and subtropical inland parts of the continent by January. In the ...
280 if 70% or more of the total precipitation is in the high-sun half of the year (April through September in the Northern Hemisphere, or October through March in the Southern), or; 140 if 30%–70% of the total precipitation is received during the applicable period, or; 0 if less than 30% of the total precipitation is so received.