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Late-season Hurricane Grace blew up from the south to collide with the ongoing storm, and it was as if the forces of heat and cold, summer and winter, were at war.

But it was the third, most unexpected event that made this real-life Halloween horror so historically devastating. This combination formed a storm in the North Atlantic just off the coast of Nova Scotia. On its way east, it met up with an icy-cold high-pressure system from Canada. First, a seemingly harmless low-pressure system formed over the Great Lakes. The locals call it "the Halloween Nor'easter of 1991." In his book describing the almost unbelievable confluence of circumstances, Sebastian Junger called it "The Perfect Storm." Three separate weather events built slowly over the course of five days. 1991 Halloween Storm (aka The Perfect Storm)

A tropical low at the end of the year brought exceptional December rainfall to a number of regions between the northwest of Australia and the southeast, with some flooding and flash flooding resulting in the Kimberley, around Uluru in Central Australia, and around Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart.9.

On 21 November, lightning storms associated with a strong and gusty change ignited grass-fires across northern Victoria, caused damage across parts of Victoria, and along with a high pollen count, triggered thousands of incidents of thunderstorm asthma.

Severe thunderstorms and a tornado outbreak caused widespread damage in South Australia during late September.

Super-cell thunderstorms caused extensive damage across southeast Australia and parts of southeast Queensland during early November, with widespread reports of golf-ball sized hail.

Periods of flooding in inland New South Wales and northern and western Victoria during September and October.

Flooding occurred from June to September in western, central and southern Queensland following the State’s second-wettest winter on record.

An East Coast Low caused major coastal flooding and erosion in New South Wales in early June, with flooding also affecting Victoria and large areas of Tasmania.

Significant fires at the start of the year near Wye River on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, and in southwest Western Australia affecting Yarloop and Waroona.

Significant flooding in Tasmania in January.

Very large fires in northwest Tasmania during January and February following an extended dry period about 123 800 ha burnt, mostly in remote areas.

Quick facts: Major weather events in 2016 The Annual Climate Statement is available on the Bureau’s website. Sea surface temperatures around Australia were the warmest on record in 2016, and were 0.77☌ above average.The World Meteorological Organization figures have announced that 2016 is very likely to have been the warmest year on record for global mean temperatures.

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In the Murray–Darling Basin, already wet soils and full rivers meant rain caused flooding in many areas throughout September and October.Īustralia was warmer than average in 2016, with a national mean temperature 0.87 ☌ above average, and it was the fourth-warmest year on record. There were also significant storm and wind events which affected the southeast. Notable events during the wet period included an East Coast Low in June, causing flooding down the east coast of Australia to Tasmania, and damaging coastal erosion in New South Wales. Even northern Australia saw widespread rainfall, during what is usually the dry season, greening regions that had been in drought for several years,” he said.įor Australia as a whole, annual rainfall was 17 per cent above average. “In May the El Niño broke down and the dry start was followed by record wet from May to September as a negative Indian Ocean Dipole developed, with ocean waters warming to the northwest of Australia. Widespread, drought-breaking rains led to flooding in multiple states. We had our warmest autumn on record partly due to a very strong 2015–16 El Niño,” Mr Plummer said. “The year started off very warm and dry, with bushfires in Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia, and a nation-wide heatwave from late February to mid-March.

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It was a year of extreme weather events, wetter than average overall, and the fourth-warmest on record for Australia, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s Annual Climate Statement 2016 released today.Īssistant Director Climate Information Services, Neil Plummer, said 2016 was an eventful year with significant climate drivers affecting the country’s weather.