BOM's first winter forecast for 2024 declares it could be one of Australia's warmest on record
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By ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders
The Bureau has predicted an unusually warm winter for most of Australia this year. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
The Bureau of Meteorology's (BOM) first winter forecast of 2024 has confidently declared one of the warmest on record throughout Australia.
It has also slightly favoured above average rain across a wide swathe of the interior and the east.
The BOM's modelling showed most of Australia will have both minimum and maximum temperatures of about 1-2 degrees Celsius above average.
And for most of Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and the eastern seaboard, there is more than 70 per cent chance this winter would be amongst the hottest 20 per cent of winters.