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Advertisement Australias 2020 was marked by a sharp shift from severe heat and drought at the start of the year to the coolest and wettest December since a big La Nina a decade ago. For 2020 as a whole, the country had its fourth-warmest year in records going back to 1910, with mean temperatures 1.15 degrees above the 1961-90 benchmark used by the Bureau of Meteorology. Only 2019, which was Australias hottest and driest year, 2013 and 2005, were warmer. "Its strange that we almost shrug our sho...

2020 brought another year of extremes, as fires made way for La Nina 2020 brought another year of extremes, as fires made way for La Nina Normal text size Advertisement COVID-19 might have made thermometers a hot item in 2020 but the weather did its bit too. As eastern Australia heads towards a soggy, muggy and stormy end to the year, the climatic contrasts to the start of 2020 could hardly be starker. Bushfires, smoke, dust and heatwaves greeted eastern Australia as 2020 got under way. Credit:...