Australian summers have continued to extend, to the point that the season is now twice as long as winter, reports the BBC. Recent research by the Australian Insitute shows that the length of the hottest season increased by 50% between the middle of the 20th century and the period 2014-2018. She lay down 31 days.
The summer of 2019-2020 was also the warmest and driest on record in Australia, reports the British radio and television channel. At the same time, winters turned out to be shorter and shorter and lost 23 days, says data analysis from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Four-month summers
“Our results are not a projection of what could await us in the future. It's happening right now, ”said Richie Merzian, a member of the Australian Institute. "The temperatures considered to be usual during the three summer months in the 1950s are now observed from mid-November and persist until mid-March," he explains.
Under these conditions, Richie Merzian believes that the Australian summers have become "a difficult and more dangerous period". The country has recently experienced a series of devastating fires that have killed 33 people and around one billion wild animals. The government has been criticized for failing to take climate change into account in its policy. With its heavy dependence on coal, Australia is one of the countries in the world that emits the most pollution per capita.
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