Australia’s winter turns into summer

Normally, August is one of the coolest months in Australia, but not this year. Some regions had their warmest 2009 day in the winter month of August - hotter than any summer day. Now the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued a "special climate statement", confirming that the month of August is set to be the hottest August ever recorded, and if weather forecasts for the next few days are correct, ”August 2009 is almost certain to be Australia’s warmest August on record,” it says in the statement. August 2009 has seen highly abnormal heat over large parts of Australia and average minimum temperatures have been above normal in all states. According to Perth Now, the hot weather is caused by a lack of cold outbreaks bringing air from the Southern Ocean, as well as clear skies and a lack of moisture.