How much warmer than average was your state in September?

The Bureau of Meteorology has released its climate statement for September 2021, and the national mean temperature for the month was 1.01°C warmer than the 1961–1990 average for Australia as a whole – so we thought you might be interested in how your state shaped up.

(Bear in mind that the ACT is included as part of NSW in this dataset, for the simple reason that just one ACT site is sampled, as compared with multiple sites for all the other states, and the ACT is of course geographically contained within NSW.)

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Image: As you can see, virtually the whole country was warmer than average in September, with only a few areas (pale green) slightly below. Overall, the country was 1.01°C above average. Source: BoM.

Overall (from biggest to smallest anomaly by state)

Every Australian state was warmer than usual in September, with Qld and the NT leading the way (including Darwin's hottest September day on record), as we told you throughout the month.

AUSTRALIA +1.01°C

QLD +1.46°C

NT +1.25°C

SA +1.06°C

VIC +0.95°C

NSW +0.93°C

WA +0.58°C

TAS +0.16°C

Maximums (from biggest to smallest anomaly by state)

Each Australian state and territory was above average in September. All of them were more than a degree above the long-term norm, except for Tassie, which was only marginally warmer.

AUSTRALIA 1.31°C

SA +1.80°C

NSW +1.42°C

VIC +1.30°C

QLD +1.27°C

NT +1.24°C

WA +1.17°C

TAS +0.18°C

Minimums (from biggest to smallest anomaly by state)

Every Australian state had an average minimum temperature above normal with the exception of WA, which was bang on the norm.

AUSTRALIA +0.70 °C

QLD +1.65°C

NT +1.25°C

VIC +0.60°C

NSW +0.45°C

SA +0.33°C

TAS +0.13°C

WA +0.00°C

Meanwhile, September 2021 rainfall was significantly below average in SA (-66%) and WA (-48%), slightly above average in NSW (+20%) and Victoria (+ 11%), and close to average in TAS, QLD and the NT.