The figures are in and they probably confirm what everyone has been thinking: that was a scorcher of a summer.

​​Brisbane has just sweated through the highest average summer temperature on record, with the statewide average also among the hottest ever.

Overnight minimums in the capital also equalled the warmest on record.

But of the millions of people who flocked to the beach to cool down, tens of thousands were in for a bad time thanks to an increase in bluebottle stings of more than 900 per cent.