Darwin, Australia, has had its coolest June on record, it was reported on Thursday.
Every daily minimum temperature was in the teens Celsius (20 degrees Celsius being 68 F), an Australian weather bureau forecaster said, according to Australia’s ABC News.
Normally daily lows during June are 68 to 69 degrees F, the AccuWeather.com database shows.
“It is the coolest June ever recorded in Darwin. We have now had 42 nights in a row below 20 degrees Celsius. To put that in context, last dry season we only had 20 [nights] for the whole season,” senior forecaster Graeme King was quoted as saying.
In order set the longest string of consecutive nights below 20 C, the Northern Territory capital would need to top the standing record of 54 straight nights.
Darwin was not alone, as about 85 percent of weather stations in Northern Territory registered historical monthly low average temperatures for June, ABC News reported.
Deep in the hinterland of Northern Territory, Alice Springs had nightly lows 4 C to 6 C (7 F to 11 F) below normal.
June marks the start of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

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