Australia has just experienced its warmest 12 months since climate records began.
Data monitoring by the Bureau of Meteorology shows the
average temperature throughout Australia in the year to August 31 was
1.11 degrees above the long-term average.
In Victoria, it was the warmest winter on record, just pipping the winter of 2005.
In New South Wales, it was the second warmest, eclipsed only by the winter of 2009.
And across the nation, winter was 1.29 degrees warmer than the
long-term average – defined as the years from 1961 to 1990 (which were
themselves warmer than the first half of their century).
The bureau says that so far in 2013 Australians have already
experienced the hottest day, month and season. Now the year of records
has culminated in the hottest 12-month period.
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