Australia's summer of 2019-20 country's second hottest on record

Australia is heating more rapidly than the global average, with a rise of 4C expected by 2100, Bureau of Meteorology says

The summer just finished was Australia's second-hottest on record, with the temperature 1.88C above average, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

The only hotter summer on record was the previous year, which was 2.14C above average. Temperatures this summer were above average across almost the entire country.