Australia just experienced its second-hottest summer on record, with temperatures almost 2 C hotter than average

Australia's summers are getting longer and hotter, raising serious questions.

The 2019/20 fire season was Australia's second-hottest summer on record, the country's Bureau of Meteorology has said.

This follows concerns the country is experiencing summers a month longer than they were in the past, and twice as long as the average winter."Australia warms slightly more than the global average," Karl Braganza, Manager of Climate Monitoring at BOM, told audiences at a Senate estimates committee in the country's capital, Canberra, on Monday.

The team behind the report compared summers and winters between 1999 and 2018 to the mid-twentieth century benchmark. In just decades, the summer season has increased by 31 days. The winter season has lost 23. "Temperatures which were considered a regular three-month summer in the 1950s, now span from early to mid-November all the way to mid-March," Richie Merzian, Climate & Energy Program Director at the Australia Institute, said in"Our findings are not a projection of what we may see in the future. It's happening right now."

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