Bureau looks ahead to autumn following a wetter end to a hot, dry summer
(WorldNews Environment)

27/02/2020 With only a few days remaining, the summer of 2019/20 is shaping up to be among the three warmest on record for Australia. And despite good rain for some areas in February, summer rainfall was below average for the country as a whole. Bureau climatologist Dr Andrew Watkins said summer was the tale of two halves, and two main climate drivers. `At the start of summer, we saw both a very strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole and a near-record negative Southern Annular Mode, and that resulted in both the warmest and driest December on record, with significant fire weather throughout many parts of the...