The latest figures from NASA indicate that January was hot globally, especially in the Arctic, where ice extent for winter is at a record low too. (See the same link.)
As far as I can make out, this summer's been a mixed bag in Australia: it seems to have been exceptionally stormy in Sydney (but not in Brisbane); Adelaide and Perth have had heatwaves; Melbourne I think hasn't been exceptionally hot at all; but back to Brisbane - it's been a summer of stifling humid hot nights which I seem to recall being the hallmark of the last big El Nino summer in 1998.
It's rather unpleasant, this night heat without the benefit of cooling storms.
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