Australia is a big country with a wide variety of climate zones, from the tropics in the north to the arid interior and temperate regions in the south. It’s also a land of extremes, enduring epic droughts and biblical floods and every other severe weather event in between. Unsurprisingly Australia holds many weather-related records including the world’s longest heatwave and the strongest gust of wind. Here we’ve gathered together those records – and other intriguing facts – that reflect the unique climate of this intriguing continent.