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.Australia's mean summer temperature was 0.6 degrees Celsius above the average — the coolest in nine years
Parts of eastern Queensland missed out on the cooler, wetter summer, with above average temperatures and below average rainfall south of Mackay.biggest ever wheat crop and bumper winter crop production"La Niña cycles are really important in Australia for breaking droughts by bringing heavy, soaking rain," Australian National University climatologist Nerilie Abram said.
"When we've got a lot of rainfall and we've got lots of vegetation growth, lots of soil moisture, what that means is firstly there's a lot of clouds, so we don't get as much solar energy," she said.
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What La Niña well below average for summer in this neck of the woods.
Does this La Nina thingy have an opposing side where it makes the weather warmer?
If temperatures remain low next year what will be the excuse then? Neither you nor me can predict the weather next week to a certainty - it’s amazing to me anyone has the self confidence/arrogance to think otherwise. Maybe put it down to “the madness of crowds”?
Thanks La Niña, it’s been great. We all neeeded a break after last summer’s fires.
Just goes to show what the scientists knew all along, the climate is unpredictable.
It was great the IOD was negative this year and a La Niña positive. December 2020 came out as the “third wettest December since national records began in 1900' and NOAA Data reveals that 325 new low temperature records were set during summer in Australia.
It was the US south's turn this year.
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