Last year topped the BOM's charts for average and maximum temperatures as well as the lowest rainfall across the country.
The data is in and 2019 has topped the Bureau of Meteorology's charts for average and maximum temperatures as well as the lowest annual rainfall across the country.The national area average rainfall was the lowest on record going all the way back to 1900It will come as no surprise to those suffering through this horror fire and heatwave season that the conditions leading up to it were the worst on record.
Australia's annual mean temperature was 1.52 degrees Celsius above the 1961-90 average of 21.8C — well above the previous hottest year at 1.33C.
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