This year has been the textbook definition of a csb climate down here - as a reminder, that's the driest summer month with <40mm of rain, or 1/3rd the wettest winter month, with the hottest month having a mean of 22C or less. I've seen predictions of warming for later this century introducing areas of csb in the south (and losing the ET in the north), but that wasn't expected until 2050 or so...
Everything seems to have become speeded-up, so to speak, like things are moving in fast-forward!
(And the models continue to show negligible amounts of rain for the next fortnight down here. I've said before I feel we're stuck with this until something upstream, like an Atlantic hurricane, jolts the pattern eastwards... not much sign of that down here at the moment.)
Originally Posted by: Retron