March was Australia's hottest on record, with temperatures 2C above average

Hot weather came after sweltering summer and unusually dry season in Western Australia and the Northern Territory

An abnormally hot summer in Australia ended with the warmest March on record, new data from the Bureau of Meteorology shows.

The latest monthly climate breakdown shows that despite two severe tropical cyclones in the northern states, temperatures across Australia were 2.13C above the average throughout last month in part due to an unusually dry summer in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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