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A billabong in the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. The monsoon climate of northern Australia is hot and humid in summer. 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 ...
The monsoon climate of northern Australia is hot and humid in summer. A banana farm in Far North Queensland, 2018 A crocodile in Danggu Gorge National Park in the Kimberley, 2008. Almost all of Northern Australia is a huge ancient craton that has not experienced geological upheaval since the end of the Precambrian.
The Australian monsoon (AUM), also known as the Australian summer monsoon (ASM), [2] and the Australian-Indonesian monsoon (AIM), [3] is a monsoon system that increases thunderstorms and rainfall over many areas of Indonesia and northern Australia, from the far northern tropics of the region to the semi-arid zone of Australia, typically between ...
The northern Top End is within the Arnhem Land tropical savanna ecoregion. A belt of transitional tropical savannas and woodlands (Carpentaria, Kimberley, and Victoria Plains) lies between the Top End and the semi-arid mulga scrubland, mallee, and sand dunes of Australia's centre. The transition is gradual, and the demarcation line that divides ...
Seasonal-average rainfall changes will vary across Australia: in southern mainland Australia, winter and spring rainfall is projected to decrease (high confidence), but increases are projected for Tasmania in winter (medium confidence), while in eastern and northern Australia in the near future (to 2030), natural variability is anticipated to ...
Darwin (Larrakia: Garramilla) [9] [better source needed] is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. [1] It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre.
Climate map of Australia. By far the largest part of Australia is arid or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia's mainland consists of named deserts, [20] while additional areas are considered to have a desert climate based on low rainfall and high temperature. Only the south-east and south-west corners have a temperate climate and moderately ...
Most of Australia is semi-arid or desert, [28] making it the world's driest continent after Antarctica. The movement of the monsoon trough is linked to the peak of the rainy season within the continent. [29] Northern portions of the continent see the most rainfall, which is concentrated in the summer months.