Australia’s warmest spring on record

• Spring 2014 was Australia’s warmest on record
• Mean temperatures were 1.67 °C above the 1961–1990 average, the largest such departure from the long-term average since national records began in 1910
• Numerous records were approached or set. For example:
  • Australia’s warmest October day on record, 36.39 °C national mean maximum temperature on 25 October
  • Australia’s warmest maximum temperature anomaly on record for any season
    (+2.33 °C), surpassing +2.17 °C set in autumn 2005

Australian mean temperature deciles for spring 2014 (1 September to 30 November).
Warmest on record areas are shown in dark orange.