It’s not news that Australia has endured blistering heat this summer. Starting in November 2018 when bushfires burned along coastal northern Queensland, conditions for large parts of Australia have been hot and dry for months.
With Canberra’s record run of days above 30°C, above 35°C and 40°C , I’ve spent January in a state of heightened irritability (and sweat!).
Over the summer, I’ve read and heard lots of analysis and explanation about hot and dry air over the centre bringing hot conditions southward. But we often have these large-scale weather patterns in Australian summers, so why has 2018/2019 been so severe?
Back in 2013, we published the first quantitative attribution study on Australia’s record hot summer, finding that anthropogenic climate change made this record heat at least 5 times more likely.
Read the story by Sophie Lewis - “Australian extremes impossible without a climate change kick.”
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