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CW: Summary of climate impacts Australia 2022
Australia in 2022: record rain, flooding and heat in a LaNina year. Summary
* background heating from climate change has elevated average Australian temperatures by more than 1.47C since 1910, says BoM.
* The third La Nina event in a row meant new records for rainfall and record flood events, while there was also new maximum daily temperatures for some sites over 50C.
* at least 10 sites that recorded more than half a metre of rain in a day
* #Sydney set a new rain record for the year of 2,536.6mm (Centennial Park site). previous record of 2,194mm set in 1950 (Observatory Hill)
* New Spring record rainfall for Murray-Darling Basin agriculture zone: average rainfall total of just over 295mm more than double the previous spring average of about 120mm exceeding previous record of 251mm set in 2011.
* Late February high rainfall and flood events in #Brisbane, Northern NSW (#Lismore) highlighted with many multi-day rainfall records broken and multiple sites recording more than a metre of rain. Rainfall totals for last week of February in the region were at least 2.5X to 5X the long-term average.
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