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Australia had its second hottest September on record last month as global heating and a strengthening El Niño combined to break a string of heat records around the country.
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heating → have → country
Bureau of Meteorology data showed the minimum night-time temperatures across the continent were also the hottest for any September, on a record that goes back to 1910.
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that → show → 1910
Averaged temperatures ranked in the top five warmest Septembers for every state, and the sixth hottest for the Northern Territory.
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temperatures → average → Territory
Alpine areas also broke temperature records, and in Kosciuszko national park snow depth fell to zero in September for the first time since monitoring started in 1954.
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monitoring → break → 1954
“There’s only one clear driver of this and that’s climate change,” said Dr Linden Ashcroft, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne.
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Ashcroft → ’ → Melbourne
“This is also a clear example of seasonal creep where winter is ending earlier and spring is starting sooner.”
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spring → end → creep
Minimum temperatures were 2.52C above average for the month, just beating the previous mark of 2.51C set in 2023.
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temperatures → beat → 2023
The bureau’s data showed Australia has not experienced a September with below-average mean temperatures since 2004.
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Australia → show → 2004
Global heating has warmed the continent by more than 1.5C since country-wide records began in 1910.
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records → warm → 1910
All states and territories had below average rainfall for September except for Western Australia, which had its second wettest September on record and the wettest September since 1904.
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which → have → 1904
In NSW, 45 locations recorded their warmest Septembers on record.
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locations → record → record
Dr Simon Grainger, a senior climatologist at the bureau, said: “It was pretty much just warm everywhere.
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It → say → bureau
“There were persistent high-pressure systems over south-east Australia, and that kept the days quite warm and meant the days were quite dry.
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days → be → days
“It’s unusual to see this persistent lack of cold days.”
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It → ’ → days
Alongside global warming, Grainger said the El Niño climate system that is still intensifying in the tropical Pacific – forecast to be the strongest ever recorded – had likely contributed to the heat and rainfall patterns seen in September.
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that → say → September
Several alpine weather stations – where many ski resorts closed early after a warm and rainy winter – also set records in September.
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resorts → close → September
The bureau said data from Snowy Hydro’s monitoring gauge at Spencers Creek in Kosciuszko national park showed snow depth had fallen to zero during September – the first time this had happened in any September since records started in 1954.
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records → say → 1954
At Thredbo, where temperatures measurements go back 59 years, the average night-time temperature was 0.1C – the first time the daily minimum for September had averaged above freezing.
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minimum → go → freezing
The town also saw its hottest September day on record at 16C, about 1C over the previous record set in 2001.
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town → see → 2001
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