Australia - Summer 2018-19 was hottest on record, BOM says, with little relief expected for autumn

[malaise]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-28/summer-hottest-on-record-autumn-outlook/10833800
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This summer has been truly exceptional. The warmest summer on record. There have been fires, floods, heatwaves, cyclones, dust storms and snow. Now, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says there is little relief on the way this autumn.

The BOM's autumn outlook has been released and it confirms all of the things we didn't want to hear:
summer broke the temperature record;
apart from the flooding rains in Queensland it was very dry;
autumn is looking warm and dry in the east; and
the autumn break could be delayed.
The bureau has confirmed that this summer was well ahead of the previous hottest summer on record which was 2013.
Climatologist Greg Browning said it scored the clean sweep of breaking the records for maximum, minimum and mean temperature.

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Please send this to the vile MAGAcretin and his fellow ignorant assholes.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. extremism is the new normal

Expect it to get worse before it gets better, and I'm not just talking about the weather.

[guillaumeb]

2. But snowballs Malaise.

And iced cream.

And sociopaths who put oil company profits ahead of the planet.