Winter on way out?

New summer represents a period of the year where temperatures will consistently peak in many cases well above 40ºC for a sustained period.

Senior lecturer Dr Geoff Hinchliffe said a tool developed by ANU modelled historical average temperatures of each season and compared them to the projected data.

‘‘What we find everywhere is that there’s really no period of a sustained or lasting winter,’’ Dr Hinchliffe said.

‘‘In 30 years’ time winter as we know it will be non-existent. It ceases to be everywhere apart from a few places in Tasmania,’’ he said.

■The visual climate tool was prepared for the Australian Conservation Foundation and can be viewed at: https://myclimate.acf.org.au