Australia sweats through the hottest March on record

Australia has just experienced the hottest March on record, capping off the hottest first quarter of the year ever recorded.

People enjoying Bondi on a hot Sunday afternoon in
March. It was the sixth-hottest March on record for NSW.

The national mean temperature for March was 2.13 degrees above average, and the January to March quarter was 0.88 degrees hotter than the average.

Bureau of Meteorology senior climatologist Blair Trewin said the new records were "quite significant”.

"That's a big margin to be breaking those sorts of records by," he said.

Read the story from The Age by Rachel Clun - “Australia sweats through the hottest March on record.”