Australia lived through its hottest year

TEMPERATURE WAS 1.61C ABOVE AVERAGE FROM APRIL 2024 TO MARCH THIS YEAR

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Australia has just sweltered through its hottest 12 months on record, a weather official said yesterday, a period of drenching floods, tropical cyclones and mass coral bleaching.

Senior government climatologist Simon Grainger said the rolling 12-month period between April 2024 and March 2025 was 1.61 degrees Celsius above average the hottest since records began more than a century ago. “This is certainly part of a sustained global pattern,” he told AFP.

Significant difference