high temperatures, recording its hottest day in 21 years, while Queensland's far west is also heating up.On Tuesday, the South Australian outback town of Roxby Downs reached a record 48.5 degrees Celsius.According to the weather bureau's Matt Collopy, other parts of the state have felt the ...
"January last year was the warmest month Australia has ever recorded, while just a few weeks ago in December, we saw the Australia-wide record hottest daily average maximum temperature broken multiple days in a row." "At the same time, rainfall deficiencies across large parts of eastern Austra...
More than 70% of Australia recorded temperatures above 42°C, with temperatures exceeding 48°C at a number of locations. On 7 January 2013, Australia experienced its hottest day on record with a national average maximum temperature of 40.3°C. Meanwhile, in New Zealand the news at the time ...
The Hot and Dry: Australia's Weird Winter report, released by the Climate Council on Tuesday, found that the average maximum temperature in Australia from June through August was 0.3 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record, set in 2009. In July alone, 72 records were broken for a re...
A high-quality dataset developed to monitor long-term temperature trends in Australia has been updated. The annual mean time-series indicates that in 1998 Australia recorded its highest ever annual mean temperature since the start of the high-quality record in 1910, The largest contribution to the...
January 2019 was the warmest month on record, with the monthly mean temperature 2.90 °C above average. Spring was Australia's driest spring on record and the fifth-warmest on record. Heat continued to affect Australia until the end of the year, bringing repeated periods of severe fire ...
“black summer”. The fires were particularly severe due to several months of record-breaking temperatures and droughts, which led to hotter and drier conditions than normal. As a consequence of the fires, which burned over 17 million hectares of land across the states of NSW, Victoria, ...
Over the past decade the southern catchments of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB), responsible for much of Australia's agricultural output, have experienced a severe drought (termed the "Big Dry") with record high temperatures and record low inflow. We find that during the Big Dry the sensitivit...
CANBERRA, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of international tourists who chose Australia as their holiday destination hit a record high last year, reaching 8.5 million, according to the latest international visitor survey results released on Saturday. ...
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