For all the complaining we’ve done about how cold it is, June was the hottest on record in eastern Australia for maximum temperatures. Keep in mind the Bureau of Meteorology has not declared the formation of an El Niño in the Pacific, but they reckon the dry/hot weather pattern is coming… On the western side, the Indian Ocean off the northwest coast has had low rainfall, suggesting that the warm and dry conditions could become a nationwide thing in the following months. Also feeling our pain is the UK – it’s had its hottest June on record, and the local fauna and flora have copped a real battering. And that heat-induced tension headache could be something else entirely… Researchers from the Natural History Museum in California say there could be a link between past climate changes and a fall in the size of the human brain. No more calling us big heads…