{"id":190643,"date":"2017-09-21T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=190643"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:09:57","slug":"warmest-winter-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/09\/21\/warmest-winter-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Warmest Winter On Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_190645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190645\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lesleyhughes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190645\" title=\"Prof Lesley Hughes\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lesleyhughes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lesleyhughes1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lesleyhughes1-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecologist Prof Lesley Hughes (Photo: Climate Council)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>September 21, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia has just endured its warmest winter on record for average maximum temperatures, according to a report released this week by the Climate Council.<\/p>\n<p>The independent group &#8211; which lobbies on climate change issues &#8211; said more than 260 heat and low rainfall records were also broken throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ecologist Prof Lesley Hughes said Australia\u2019s hottest winter in history was related to worsening climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any meaningful action to tackle climate change, we will continue to see many more hot winters, just like this, as global temperatures rise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other key findings from the Climate Council report include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia experienced its second driest June on record and the driest winter since 2002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia\u2019s average winter temperatures have increased by around 1 degree Celsius since 1910<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Winter warm spells are lasting longer, occurring more often and becoming more intense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report also highlighted that the hot and dry winter has led to an even earlier start to the bushfire season.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Download the Climate Council&#8217;s report:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southburnett.biz\/pdfs\/2017warmanddry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hot &amp; Dry: Australia\u2019s Weird Winter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(1.26Mb PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The South Burnett&#8217;s winter weather this year backs up the Climate Council&#8217;s findings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Weather Bureau reports the long-term mean maximum daily temperatures for Kingaroy in June, July and August are 18.9, 18.1 and 20.1 degrees respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This year, though, they were 21.1, 21.4 and 23.5 degrees &#8211; almost 3 degrees higher.<\/p>\n<p>Rainfall was also below the long-term average of 110.6 mm during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>This year the South Burnett received just 62.2 mm from June 1 to August 31, slightly more than half our normal winter rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has just endured its warmest winter on record for average maximum temperatures, according to a report released this week by the Climate Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":271999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,36],"tags":[1134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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