What is Australia's climate like in summer?

Answer 1

The obvious answer to this is "hot", but this is not the case throughout Australia. Australia's climate regions range from tropical to warm temperate to cool temperate. Australia is a vast country, and thus the weather is different in different parts of the country in summer.

Australia's summer runs from December through to February. In the far north of Queensland and the Northern Territory, there can be tropical storms and monsoons which bring weeks of heavy, soaking rain. Australia is prone to cyclones between November and March, and these can hit anywhere from Western Australia's northern half, across the Northern Territory, through the Gulf country and down to Queensland's central coast.

Central Australia is also very hot and dry during this time.

Some of the regions in Australia are hot and dry in summer, particularly in the south of the continent. Tasmania and other regions of southern Australia can fluctuate quite widely, from cool and pleasant to hot and dry. In the south, late summer is prime bushfire time, when temperatures are not only excessively hot, but dry as well.