August 2024 across Australia was the warmest on record by a considerable margin, with a mean average temperature that was 3.02°C above the long-term average, while the 2024 winter was the second-warmest on record nationwide.

Weatherzones’ Anthony Sharwood says Australia has never seen a winter month anywhere near as warm as August 2024 since the age of national-scale weather records began in 1910.

Mr Sharwood says apart from the underlying influence of the warming climate, August was a month when the cold fronts which bring rain, hail, snow and bitterly cold air to southern mainland Australia were largely absent, with high pressure dominating the country.

In Inverell average minimum temperatures for August was 4.1*, 3.5 degrees above the August average while the average maximum temperature was 21.2*, 2.7 degrees warmer than average.