Thursday, July 05, 2007
WARMENING TAKES A HOLIDAY
May:
Climate change gave much of Australia’s drought-stricken east coast its warmest May on record, weather experts say.
Global warming and an absence of significant cold changes had driven temperatures well above the monthly average, said meteorologist Matt Pearce, from consultants Weatherzone ...
“This is yet another sign of the widespread climate change that we are seeing unfold across the globe.”
June:
June 2007 was the coldest June recorded in Australia since at least 1950, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s National Climate Centre ...
Across the whole of the continent the Australian mean temperature was 1.54 degrees Celsius below average for June – breaking the previous record of 1.4 degrees below average set in 1982. It is the second successive year in which June has been much cooler than normal.