"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...
The present paper aims to promote the use of the raw stations' data corrected only for urban heat island formation. The longer temperature records of Australia exhibit significant oscillations with a strong quasi-60 years' signature of downward phases 1880 to 1910, 1940 to 1970 and 2000 to ...
Australia faces wildfires each year as temperatures climb. In February 2009, on what has come to be known as Black Saturday, 173 people were killed in fires in the state of Victoria. On Friday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard attended a memorial service for fires in 2003 in the capital, ...
CANBERRA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The last five years have been the hottest on earth since records began, Australia's Climate Council has confirmed. Data released by the Climate Council and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed that the global average temperature between...
Samantha Burgess emphasized that recognizing 2024 as the hottest year on record should incentivize more active emission reductions and raise ambition at the next climate change conference. "It will also be the first year that is completely above 1.5ºC of global warming, a milestone never seen ...
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia experienced its hottest day on record and temperatures are expected to soar even higher as heatwave conditions embrace most of the country.
The past 10 years were the warmest decade on record, closed out by the second-hottest year on record in 2019, according to an annual globalclimate reportreleased today by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The past five years have been the warmest of the ...
In both cases, having normal conditions across the Pacific during the past year would have resulted in 2022 being tied — with 2020 for NASA and 2016 for NOAA — as the warmest year on record! “When the variability in the Pacif...
The heatwave is another alarm bell about global warming in Australia, where this year's early and intense start to regular summer bushfires has heaped pressure on the Australian government to tackle climate change Record heatwave Record spot temperatures were recorded this week in Western Australia,...
CANBERRA, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Australia in July may be synonymous with winter, but the nation's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Tuesday confirmed that the country's Northern Territory just sweltered through its hottest July on record.