CLIMATE change continues to be in full swing with most Australian capital cities posting their hottest November on record.

Melbourne has had a strange month of weather that has produced above-average rainfall but still record temperatures.

The city’s average maximum temperature was 27.6 degrees to Saturday, besting the 1862 record of 25.5 degrees for the whole of November.

While the weather cooled on the weekend, 10 consecutive days over 30 degrees at the start of the month set the pattern for the monthly record to fall.

Melbourne’s November rainfall to date was 90.2 millimetres.

Senior weather bureau forecaster Terry Ryan told The Age that it was unusual to have the combination of the hottest November and above-average rainfall.

”This is another statistic that says the Earth appears to be getting warmer,” he said.

And water restrictions continued to be in force.

Water Minister Tim Holding announced Melburnians had used an average of 153 litres of water per person per day over the past 12 months, coming in under the Government’s target of 155 litres.