Australian heat wave continues into fall
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A heat wave has Australia gripped in a seemingly endless summer, with a run of record-breaking temperatures even as autumn officially begins.
The Bureau of Meteorology has said the abnormal conditions were affecting almost the entire country in early March, the month that marks the start of autumn.
A lack of rain and cooler winds left the east coast suffering a prolonged stretch of hot and humid weather, it said in a special climate statement released on Friday.
Bureau climatologist Blair Trewin said yesterday that the heat was consistent with the “well-established warming trend in long-term average temperatures” in Australia and globally.
“You would expect to see more warm extremes and fewer cold extremes,” he said.
The bureau said the extreme phase of the heat wave ended last week, but temperatures remained above average.
On the east coast, Sydney continued to sweat, notching up a record 39 consecutive days of the temperature reaching 26 degrees Celsius. The previous record was 19 days set in March 2014.
Trewin said it was too early to say whether this would be the nation’s hottest March, but a number of records had already been smashed.
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