This summer ricocheted from extremely hot to intensely wet across parts of the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, with South Australia experiencing some of the season’s most acute swings. Nationwide, the 2025-26 season was the wettest in nearly a decade, with rainfall 32% higher than average across the country, according to the bureau’s summary, the rainiest since 2016-17. It was also Australia’s eighth-hottest summer on record, 1.1C above the 1961-1990 average. Only one summer in the 20th century was hotter, said Qian Zhou, a climatologist at the bureau. That was in 1997-98, a season that was 1.11C hotter
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