The Bureau of Meteorology has given its first forecast for what Australia’s summer will deliver and one graph in particular is focusing minds.
If there’s part of Australia that is going to have a particularly hot and dry summer it’ll be in New South Wales and Queensland. Expect heatwaves the possibility of bushfires.
The first and the heat that has enveloped Australia over the last few months is likely to see spring declared as one of the driest on record.
This was caused by the interaction between three weather systems, the effects of which will last longer into summer than usual.