'It's been extreme': Australia's summer smashes seasonal heat records

Exclusive: Australia has posted its hottest summer and the first season in which temperatures exceeded two degrees above the long-term averages, , according to the Bureau of Meteorology | p_hannam

Australia has posted its hottest summer and the first season in which temperatures exceeded two degrees above the long-term averages, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

While final temperatures for February will be set on Thursday, maximum and mean temperatures will come in about two degrees above the 1961-90 period the bureau uses as its benchmark. While minimums were less extreme, they will eclipse the previous record for overnight temperatures set one year earlier.The heat was widespread, with NSW, Victoria and Western Australia among the regions posting a record-hot summer.

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