Australia's Hottest Summer Beats Previous Record by 'Large Margin' (brisbanetimes.com.au)

As Australia welcomes the first day of autumn with a sigh of relief, the summer statistics have arrived from the Bureau of Meteorology confirming suspicions that the country just sweated through it's hottest-ever summer. From a report: The national mean temperature for summer smashed the 1961-1990 average by a whopping 2.14C, almost a full degree above the previous hottest summer on record (2012-2013), which was 1.28 degrees above the old average. The mean maximum temperature also beat the 2012-2013 mean maximum by a similar margin (2.61 degrees above average compared to 1.64 degrees above). "It was exceptionally warm across most of the country," the weather bureau's summary states, with NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory all recording their hottest-ever summer as severe and lengthy heatwaves spread across much of the country in December and January.

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Weather is not climate!

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I keep hearing on how weather is not climate. Especially now that here in the Midwest we are seeing record setting snowfalls and record setting low temperatures. Yet in the article they claim Australia's heat is evidence of global warming.

So what if Australia saw record high temperatures? This is a weather event, not global warming.

If anyone insists that this is indicative of global warming then every record low temperature must be counted as evidence against it. Now, make up your mind. Is weather the same as climate? If so I got lots of frosty white evidence of global cooling in my front yard for you to see. Is weather different than climate? Then this record setting temperature in Australia is a local news event at best. I shouldn't care about Australia's heat any more than they care about my wind chill numbers.