While Australia experiences with relatively colder and stormy summer, thanks to ongoing La nina pattern /https://mkweather.com/2020/12/02/summer-2020-2021-forecast-for-australia-new-zealand-and-oceania//, in New Zealand have fulfilled predictions about very hot Summer 2020/2021, although, in December 2020, summer was starting only very slowly, until the Christmas with temperatures only up to +25°C.
In Ashburton, eastern Southern Island, meteorologists on Tuesday, 26. January 2021 measured record high temperature, +39,3°C, what is the second highest January temperature in New Zealand´s history!
Previously, on 22. January 1908, in Timaru was measured +40,0°C, therefore, Tuesday was the hottest January day in New Zealand for 113 years!
Not only very hot Summer 2020/2021, but mainly in North Island, above average cyclone season is expected (only New Zealand(!)).
Only between 21.-26. January 2021 was peaking summer in Australia, with temperatures up to +45,3°C in Adelaide region /https://mkweather.com/2021/01/25/australia-with-extreme-heatwave-and-wildfires-port-augusta-near-adelaide-453celsius// and wildfires across the country.
Last summers in Australia however, temperatures was reaching almost +50°C during the strongest heawtaves and last season (2019/2020), the worst wildfire season in history bothered country.
Now, thanks to La-nina, Southern Hemisphere is coldest almost for last 10 years /https://mkweather.com/2021/01/24/antarctica-set-to-coldest-january-since-1978-southern-hemisphere-hasnt-been-so-cold-almost-10-years// and increased tropical activity in the region is furthermore expected /https://mkweather.com/2021/01/24/tropical-activity-forecast-for-next-month-and-half-year-videos-ts-eloise-kimi-chalane-imogen-danilo//.
