As the year draws to an end, take a look back at the year’s weather events – and see what to expect in the new year.
This year has had it all: record-breaking heat in Western Australia, and heavy rains and flooding across the east coast. For many locations across the country where river beds were cracked and dry three years ago, they are now flowing with brown floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall. Some cities recorded their wettest year on record, while others experienced their coldest summer temperature in more than 100 years.
What makes 2022 particularly interesting is it was the first year on record that Australia experienced three consecutive La Ninas and back-to-back negative IOD events. This year, the NSW SES responded to 80,032 requests for assistance and conducted 3812 flood rescues. The areas that required the most assistance were Forbes, south Lismore and Wee Waa. NSW SES Commissioner Carlene York said this year had been the busiest on record for the agency.
The city did not record temperatures equal or above 30 degrees any days in November – the last time this happened was in 2001. Elsewhere, Mount Hotham recorded the coldest summer temperature ever, reaching -5.4 degrees this month. That beat the previous record of -5.2 degrees at the same location in 1978.
“With that, it means we will get a greater chance of reduced rainfall and increased temps,” Hough said. “El Ninos occur every three to five years.” It found climate change would cause “an increase in the risk of natural disasters from extreme weather, including ‘compound extremes’, where multiple extreme events occur together or in sequence, thus compounding their impacts”. Australia’s already variable rainfall patterns would become increasingly so, with more frequent droughts, heatwaves and declining rain over the south-east of the continent.
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