General
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.
Key points:
- Australia’s mean summer temperature was 0.6 degrees Celsius above the average — the coolest in nine years
- La Niña drove the cooler, wetter conditions, but experts say its influence is waning as climate change takes hold
- Globally, 2021 saw the sixth hottest January since records began
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…
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