SYDNEY, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) on Thursday released its official record of Australia's climate, indicating that the country endured warmer than average climate in 2023, with contrasting rainfall between the north and the south.

According to the BOM, 2023 has become the equal eighth-warmest year on record since observations began in 1910, while both the mean annual maximum and minimum temperatures were above average for all states and the Northern Territory.

The winter of last year was Australia's warmest on record, as the national mean temperature reached 1.53 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average.

The mean national temperature for June, July, August, September, November and December has also been among the 10 warmest since 1910.

"Climate change continues to influence Australia's climate. Since national records began in 1910, Australia's climate has warmed around 1.5 degrees Celsius," the weather bureau noted.

Meanwhile, rainfall was above average in the north of Australia but below average in the parts of the east, south, and west.

Multiple major flood events burst out across inland and northern regions in the first quarter of 2023, while from August to October, Australia has undergone the driest three-month period since rainfall records began in 1900.

The BOM said that La Nina weakened and then dissipated through the summer of 2022-23, after three consecutive years of dominating global weather patterns.

"The other major global-scale influences on Australia's climate in 2023 were El Nino and a strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole which were established in early spring, and a positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode towards the end of the year," the bureau added. Enditem

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