Climate Central: On the heels of the warmest 12-month period in Australia's recorded history, parts of the country experienced an unusually strong stretch of warm autumn weather in May. Global warming has aided the string of record-breaking temperatures, according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and other scientists, and will continue to increase the odds that new records will be set in the future.
Maximum temperature anomalies (compared to 1961--1990 average) across Australia from May 8 to 26, 2014....