This year is shaping up to be one of the driest - and hottest - on record.
Australia just experienced its driest spring on record, according to the Bureau of Meteorology .
An average of just 11.9mm of rain fell across the country this November - making it the driest November on record - which BOM said led to the country’s catastrophic bushfires. It's all part of new data released by BOM this week. Sheep wander parched land near a dry reservoir on a Condobolin property, 460 kilometers northwest of Sydney.This year’s January to October rainfall has been the second lowest on record for Australia as a whole, only coming in behind the same period for 1902.
Hundreds of bushfires devastated parts of New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia throughout November. Australia’s driest spring follows our hottest summer - January 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded for every state and territory in the country. For the world as a whole, BOM predicted 2019 will be in the top four warmest years on record, following the trend set by 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, which are currently the four hottest years. Of Australia’s ten warmest years only one - 1998 - occurred before 2005.
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