Sydney, April 3, 2025 (AFP) - Australia sweats through hottest 12 months on record: official data

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2025-04-03

Australia has just sweltered through its hottest 12 months on record, a weather official said Thursday, a period of drenching floods, tropical cyclones and mass coral bleaching. Senior government climatologist Simon Grainger said the rolling 12-month period between April 2024 and March 2025 was 1.61 degrees Celsius (34.9 degrees Fahrenheit) above average -- the hottest since records began more than a century ago. "This is certainly part of a su......

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