On Friday, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said that the winter of Australia was the warmest on record, marking the latest in a series of records shattered worldwide by climate change harshnesses.
The average temperature in winter across Australia was 16.75 degrees Celsius (62.15 Fahrenheit) from June-August, Simon Grainger, a senior climatologist for the bureau, told AFP.
That is an inch above the last record of 16.68 degrees Celsius (62.02 Fahrenheit) recorded in 1996.
Australia’s climate records date back to 1910.
La Nina situations have generated warm winters and cooler and wetter summer situations across much of Australia in current years.
The winter that came to an end last Thursday noticed the second-highest maximum temperatures on record and some of the highest minimum temperatures too, according to Bureau of Meteorology data
Several researchers in Australia have continually alerted that climate change intensifies the threat of natural disasters such as bushfires, floods, and hurricanes.
After several moist years, experts are predicting the future summer to carry the most severe bushfire season since 2019-2020.
During that “Black Summer”, bushfires steamed across Australia’s eastern seaboard, demolishing swathes of forest, causing millions of animals’ lives, and covering cities in harmful smoke.
Earlier this year, Australia also noticed the most powerful winds the nation has ever recorded, as a powerful tropical hurricane hit Australia’s northwest.
Wind speeds of 289 kilometers (179 miles) per hour were recorded.
Globally, temperature records have dropped in recent years, as climate change causes meteorological situations more volatile.
According to the European Union’s climate observatory Copernicus, this year’s July was marked by heatwaves and blazes around the globe, and was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.
