In cause you have n’t get wind , it’sbeenhotin Australia . So it comes as no great shock that the Australian government has officially declared the summertime of 2018 - 19 thecountry ’s hottest on book .
“ It wo n’t come as a surprisal to many that this summer will be our warmest on record , ” Andrew Watkins , manager of long - range prognostication at Australia ’s Bureau of Meteorology , said in astatementreleased Thursday .
Australia ’s summertime catch off to a red-hot start when arecord - setting heating wavecaused temperature to spike up to 22 grade Fahrenheit above normal in Victoria , South Australia , and Western Australia near Christmas . hectic weather persisted into January , which see heat wave after heat wafture and was finally declaredAustralia ’s hottest month ever . In New South Wales , occupier sweated through thehottest night the country had ever recordedwhen the mercury fail to drop below 97 degrees .
The Australian Opensuffered , as didthousands of flying foxesthat turn a loss their lives to the high temperature . Mass dieoffs of fish in the Murray - Darling river washstand were at least partially attributable to the temperature , according to the AFP . Parts of Australia burn up , including Tasmania .
The watery El Niño burbling in the tropical Pacific is one potential impart factor — El Niño cantilt the meteorological oddsin party favour of affectionate weather in southeasterly Australia — but so , understandably , is clime change .
“ Scientists have been order for decades that mood change cause by the electrocution of fossil fuel is pee-pee extreme weather issue more grievous and more frequent , ” Lesley Hughes , an ecologist with the Australian Climate Council , told Earther in an electronic mail . “ This last summer in Australia is just the latest case . ”
regrettably , it does n’t look like the onset of fall with campaign Australia ’s feverishness to cave in . Warmer - than - normal conditions are “ very probable for almost all of Australia , ” according to the Bureau of Meteorology , and there ’s a high prospect of drier - than - average condition across eastern Australia . That’sbad newsfor the country ’s agricultural sector , swaths of which have been in the clutches of a hard drought for many months .
Unless we make some revolutionary change , that may become the Modern normal .
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