Australian mean temperature deciles for spring. Areas which are warmest on record
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In a special climate statement issued this morning, the Bureau of Meteorology reports that the Spring of 2014 was Australia’s warmest spring season on record.

Mean temperatures were 1.67 °C above the 1961–1990 average, the largest such departure from the long-term average since national records began in 1910.

The Bureau says numerous records were approached or set, including:

• Australia’s warmest October day on record, 36.39 °C national mean maximum temperature on 25 October

• Australia’s warmest maximum temperature anomaly on record for any season (+2.33 °C), surpassing +2.17 °C set in autumn 2005

To read the Bureau’s full special climate statement click here