Australia is experiencing an unseasonably warm winter, with temperatures topping 25 degrees in Sydney over the weekend. 9News
Australia's unseasonably warm conditions are the result of both natural drivers of our weather and continued global warming.
The high pressure has caused the air over the continent's interior to warm. When cold fronts move across the south of Australia they push this warm air ahead of them, bringing warm and windy conditions to southern coastal areas. Over the coming months, warm and dry weather is expected to continue. For the rest of winter and spring, it's expected to beAnd the whole of Australia is predicted to beSo is climate change a factor here?Australia's land areas have already warmed by 1.4 degrees since pre-industrial times. This is the result of humans burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases.
The planet's warmest average temperatures typically happen in July. That's because the Northern Hemisphere's large land masses heat up more quickly than the oceans, in response to the high amounts of radiation from the sun. Still, the heat of the last few weeks has been unprecedented.
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