Editing Northern Territory (section)

===Climate===
[[File:Northern Territory Köppen.svg|thumb|[[Köppen climate classification|Köppen climate types]] in the Northern Territory]]
[[File:Fires in Northern Territory, Australia.jpg|thumb|left|Satellite image of fire activity in central Australia]]

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| colspan="5"  style="background:#cef; text-align:center;"| '''Average monthly maximum<br />temperature in Northern Territory'''
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!Month
!Darwin
!Alice Springs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|January
| style="text-align:center;"|31.8&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|36.3&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|February
| style="text-align:center;"|31.4&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|35.1&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|March
| style="text-align:center;"|31.9&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|32.7&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|April
| style="text-align:center;"|32.7&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|28.2&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|May
| style="text-align:center;"|32.0&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|23.0&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|June
| style="text-align:center;"|30.6&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|19.8&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|July
| style="text-align:center;"|30.5&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|19.7&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|August
| style="text-align:center;"|31.3&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|22.6&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|September
| style="text-align:center;"|32.5&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|27.1&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|October
| style="text-align:center;"|33.2&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|30.9&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|November
| style="text-align:center;"|33.2&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|33.7&nbsp;°C
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|December
| style="text-align:center;"|32.6&nbsp;°C
| style="text-align:center;"|35.4&nbsp;°C
|-
| colspan="5"  style="font-size:80%; background:#cef; text-align:center;"| Source: Bureau of Meteorology
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The Northern Territory has two distinctive climate zones.

The northern end, including Darwin, has a tropical climate with high humidity and two seasons, the wet (October to April) and dry season (May to September). During the dry season nearly every day is warm and sunny, and afternoon humidity averages around 30%. There is very little rainfall between May and September. In the coolest months of June and July, the daily minimum temperature may dip as low as {{convert|14|C}}, but very rarely lower, and frost has never been recorded.

The [[Australian monsoon|wet season]] is associated with [[tropical cyclones]] and [[monsoon]] rains. The majority of rainfall occurs between December and March (the southern hemisphere summer), when [[thunderstorms]] are common and afternoon relative humidity averages over 70% during the wettest months. On average more than {{convert|1570|mm|abbr=on}} of rain falls in the north. Rainfall is highest in north-west coastal areas, where rainfall averages from {{convert|1800|to|2100|mm|abbr=on}}.

The central region is the [[desert]] centre of the country, which includes Alice Springs and [[Uluru]] (Ayers Rock), and is [[semi-arid]] with little rain usually falling during the hottest months from October to March. Seasons are more distinct in central Australia, with very hot summers and cool winters. Frost is recorded a few times a year. The region receives less than {{convert|250|mm|abbr=on}} of rain per year.

The highest temperature recorded in the territory was {{convert|48.3|C}} at [[Aputula|Finke]] on 1 and 2 January 1960. The lowest temperature was {{convert|-7.5|C}} at Alice Springs on 17 July 1976.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rainfall and Temperature Records: National |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/extreme/records/national.pdf |publisher=[[Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)|Bureau of Meteorology]] |access-date=17 November 2009 |archive-date=21 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321174915/http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/extreme/records/national.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

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|Jan record high C = 48.3
|Feb record high C = 46.4
|Mar record high C = 45.0
|Apr record high C = 41.5
|May record high C = 40.2
|Jun record high C = 37.9
|Jul record high C = 37.5
|Aug record high C = 39.7
|Sep record high C = 42.0
|Oct record high C = 45.0
|Nov record high C = 46.1
|Dec record high C = 47.2

|Jan record low C = 6.7
|Feb record low C = 8.5
|Mar record low C = 4.7
|Apr record low C = 1.0
|May record low C = -4.2
|Jun record low C = -6.0
|Jul record low C = -7.5
|Aug record low C = -5.4
|Sep record low C = -2.8
|Oct record low C = 0.0
|Nov record low C = 3.5
|Dec record low C = 7.5

|source=[[Bureau of Meteorology]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Daily Extremes |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/extremes/monthly_extremes.cgi?area=nt |website=Bureau of Meteorology |access-date=5 December 2020 |archive-date=8 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408191051/http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/extremes/monthly_extremes.cgi?area=nt |url-status=live }}</ref>
|date=November 2019}}