Melbourne’s winter was a lesson in extremes: darker, warmer and wetter. What can it tell us about our changing climate, and what summer might bring?
The unseasonably hot final weeks of 2024’s winter have sent national climate records tumbling, flowers in gardens into bloom, and melted snow at ski resorts.Luis Enrique Ascui
Melbourne recorded a 15.8-degree daily average for winter and a 17.6-degree daily average until August 23. The August record average temperature is 17.7 degrees. “Melbourne has been very dry in June and August , but had above-average rainfall in July, particularly in the eastern suburbs and into Gippsland.”
The unseasonably warm weather and strong winds could be driven by the jet stream – powerful ribbons of strong winds high in the atmosphere that are currently snaking rapidly across the Southern Hemisphere from west to east.last year found the fastest upper-level jet stream winds will accelerate by about 2 per cent for every degree the world warms.
“We’ve had some good conditions, and we’ve we’ve had some really terrible conditions, but overall the trend is that we’re just seeing less snow and our winters shortening,” Beaver said.
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