Australia endures hottest year on record

[yuiyoshida]

SYDNEY —

Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology said Friday, enduring the longest heatwave ever recorded Down Under as well as destructive bushfires.

“2013 was Australia’s warmest year since records began in 1910,” the bureau said in its annual climate statement.

“Mean temperatures across Australia have generally been well above average since September 2012. Long periods of warmer-than-average days have been common, with a distinct lack of cold weather.”

The bureau said that Australia’s 2012-2013 summer was the warmest on record, and included a prolonged national heatwave which ended on January 19, 2013—the first day since 31 December, 2012 that it did not reach 45 degrees Celsius (113 F) somewhere in the nation.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/australia-endures-hottest-year-on-record

[subterranean]

1. 2013 was also the warmest year on record in Fresno, CA.

It beat the previous record set in 2012.

[peoli]

2. thanks for posting