La Niña drives cool temperatures, high rainfall during Australian summer

Australia recorded its wettest summer in half a decade and its coolest in nine years as La Niña snapped an eight-year hot streak in 2020/21.

Rainfall across the country was 29 per cent above the long-term average, making it the soggiest summer in four years.

Victoria and South Australia received 14 per cent more rain than the long-term average.

The Murray-Darling Basin received 13 per cent above average rain — the most since the La Niña summer…