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The capital city is experiencing a cooler summer than last year, but people are advised to savour the gentler weather, with climate change set to bring ...

"And it's not just on average, but also it's going to make the extremes of our summer more extreme," she said. Climate change is increasing the overall temperature and days of extreme heat across the country, in all months, according to the "And February is, by 0.3 of a degree, our hottest month of the year. There have been three summers without a 40 degree day in the last 30 years, in 2017/18, 2001/2022 and 1998/1999. The city normally records three to four days over 40C each year — one every 10 years in November, one per year in December, one to two per year in January and one in February. "And so because they were sitting and lingering persistently, that allowed the heat to build along the west coast.