Too hot for a walk, reports our Editor; sensible people are staying inside until early evening when some high cloud cover takes the edge off the heat. He sweltered through the hottest day of the year so far on 7th September, only for the 8th to be hotter still. Temperatures were well into the 30s on both days — not exceptional for Australia. Except he wasn’t in Australia: he was off visiting family in Wales, more noted for its rain and cold than tropical-style heat.
While Australia looks to El Niño and La Niña weather patterns for broad variations in our climate, the temperature trend is firmly upward. According to BOM, Australia’s average temperature between 1910 and 2020 has increased by 1.44°C ±0.24°C. Surface sea temperatures have increased by an average of 1.05°C since 1900. Since
