2017 Climate Statement

When it comes to the weather, Australia continued to make it into the record books over the past year.

View from Bronte as thunderstorm rolls in over Sydney Photo: Brook Mitchell Source: Getty Images AsiaPac

From record temperatures to rainfall, 2017 saw it all according to the Bureau of Meteorology's Annual Climate Statement.  If you felt the heat last year  it might be because Australia felt its third-warmest year on record, coming in nearly a degree  above the 1961-to-1990 average