“Monsoon rains in Australia’s north failed last summer and the entire continent endured its hottest year since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Friday. Average temperatures were 1.2 degree Celsius above the long-term average of 21.8 degree Celsius, breaking the previous record set in 2005. ‘The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,’ David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.”

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