{"id":93072,"date":"2015-01-07T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T07:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=93072"},"modified":"2020-08-20T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:54:40","slug":"third-hottest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/01\/07\/third-hottest-year-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Hottest Year On Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia has recorded its third-warmest calendar year since national records began in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Director for Climate Information Services Neil Plummer said yesterday 2014 had been characterised by frequent heatwaves and warm spells, and a notable reduction in cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of Australia experienced temperatures very much above average in 2014, with mean temperatures 0.91\u00b0C above the long-term average,\u201d Mr Plummer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis follows the warmest year on record in 2013, which was 1.20\u00b0C warmer than average.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticularly warm conditions occurred in spring 2014, which was Australia\u2019s warmest spring on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl Ni\u00f1o-like effects were felt in drier and warmer conditions in much of eastern Australia during 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bureau of Meteorology&#8217;s Annual Climate Statement for 2014 also highlighted:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Australia as a whole, rainfall was near average for the year, with 478mm (1961\u20131990 average 465mm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Prolonged rainfall deficiencies continued for inland and south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern NSW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Six significant heatwaves and warm spells occurred, including one of south-east Australia\u2019s most prolonged heatwaves in mid-January<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of major bushfires occurred during January and February, with particularly destructive fires in Victoria and South Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Four tropical cyclones made landfall during 2014, with tropical cyclone Ita being the most intense; crossing the coast near Cooktown as a category 4 system, bringing rainfall totals in excess of 300mm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A stormy spring, with severe thunderstorms striking Brisbane in late November, causing flash flooding, very large hailstones and destructive winds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An East Coast Low off the central and southern NSW August caused storm damage and brought more than 100mm of rain to some parts of the coast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sea surface temperatures around Australia were unusually warm; 0.49\u00b0C above average for the year to November.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nationally, Australian temperatures have warmed approximately one degree since 1950, and the continued warmth in 2014 adds to this long-term warming trend.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization has 2014 on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Annual Climate Statement 2014 is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/climate\/current\/annual\/aus\/\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has recorded its third-warmest calendar year since national records began in 1910.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"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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