Is this a record? Or climate change at work?

Our tropical apple Anna has survived almost half a year of nearly constant drought.

And it has just started to flower - almost at the beginning of our southern autumn!

We've had a few drops of rain - usually about 2 mm in 24 hours - in the last week or two - but nothing that could satisfy a big tree like this...

And it is the only one of our three apple trees to flower out of season, as far as we can remember. The other two (a Golden Dorset needed for pollination, and another Anna) are still too young.

Can anyone shed some light on this phenomenon?

Talking of records: today (19/10/19) we experienced the lowest humidity ever recorded on Lot 9: all of 19 rpt 19 per cent! Air temps were around 29 C...

There e=seems to be a logn, dry summer ahead of us!