Australia news live: ski fields reach July temperature high; diesel prices surge

Several Australian ski fields reached unusually warm temperatures, with Mount Hotham hitting eleven point one degrees Celsius — over two point four degrees above the previous July record set in nineteen ninety-four. The Guardian reports that a slow-moving high-pressure system created descending air that warmed and was trapped above the ground through a radiation inversion. Climate change is contributing to the trend, and the Bureau of Meteorology is still officially confirming these records.

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