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 (2017) it might be because Australia felt its third-warmest year on record, coming in nearly a degree (0.95 degrees) above the 1961-to-1990 average.
Doctor Karl Braganza is the Head of Climate Monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology.
"This means that Australia has seen the five warmest years on record now, all since 2005. So the five warmest years have occurred in that time period," Dr Braganza said.
South Australia's far north town of Tarcoola sweltered through the hottest day of the year, with the mercury hitting 48.2 degrees in early February.
March, July, August, October and December were the warmest months, ranking in the top 10 for the warmest months on record.
And sea surface temperatures were no exeption, with Dr Braganza explaining that ocean temperatures delivered the 8th warmest year on record for waters surrounding Australia.
While swimmers may have enjoyed the warmer waters, it didn't bring good news for Australia's treasured Great Barrier Reef.
For the second consecutive year, prolonged high ocean temperatures over the Great Barrier Reef over summer and early autumn caused mass coral bleaching.
And as the weather bureau's Karl Braganza says, it was the first back-to-back summer bleaching event on record.
Across the year as a whole, the eastern states were generally drier, with the western interior part of the continent wetter.
Umbrellas came in handy in Western Australia, where they were drenched by the ninth-wettest year on record.
He says one of the more notable weather events for 2017 would have to be Cyclone Debbie in March and April.
It ripped through Queensland bringing heavy rainfall and flooding to parts of the state and into New South Wales.
