Australians are being warned to prepare for a summer of scorching heat, damaging bushfires and “flash droughts” as climate change-induced rises in sea temperatures turbocharge one of the strongest El Nino weather systems on record.
Pacific Ocean temperatures – which drive the natural El Nino weather pattern that brings hot, dry weather to Australia – this week blasted through a record set in 2015, despite there still being several months before the event is set to peak.
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