January rainfall was below average to very much below average (in the lowest 10 per cent of Decembers since 1900) for large parts of Victoria. Australia’s area-averaged mean temperature in January was 2.15° above the 1961-1990 average, according to recent data from the Bureau of Meteorology, making it the second-warmest January on record since 1910. Only in 2019 has January been warmer across Australia.
