Climate change: Australia's record hot spring despite La Nina, National Environmental Science Program shows
Advertisement Climate change added as much as 1.7 degrees of warming to Australia's record hot spring, dwarfing the role of natural variability, analysis by the National Environmental Science Program shows. Australia's average mean temperatures in spring were 2.03 degrees above the 1961-90 average, exceeding the previous warmest spring in 2014 by almost a quarter of a degree, the Bureau of Meteorology said. Spring ended with some severe heatwave conditions but for the season as a whole it was also remarkably warm. Credit:Andrew Miskelly, via Weatherzone The warmth was particularly unusual bec...