Southwest Australia loses its Mediterranean climate

Rainfall monitoring data shows WA's south-west has been losing its Mediterranean climate over the past 16 years and now has considerably less winter rainfall and a corresponding increase in summer rains.

The changing climate and rainfall have major implications for Wheatbelt farmers who have to adapt to an earlier growing season by some four to five weeks.
The changes are mainly linked to barometric changes involving a weakening Indian Ocean trough and rising sea surface temperatures, Dr David Stephens says.


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