Australia records fourth hottest year despite La Nina
Advertisement Australia's 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 Australia's hottest and driest year, 2013 and 2005, were warmer. "It's strange that we almost shrug our shoulders," Andrew Watkins, head of the bureau's climate prediction services, said, adding, "it's a ...
Source: watoday.com.au
