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Australia's Hottest Day Ever!

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And, it's not even summer yet.

At 105 F, Australia Just Had Its Hottest-Ever Day : NPR

Australia experienced its hottest day ever recorded on Tuesday, according to preliminary results from its national Bureau of Meteorology.

The average maximum temperature across the country was 105.6 degrees Fahrenheit, topping the previous record of 104.5 degrees, set in January 2013.

There's good reason to think that this record could be smashed again within the week — Diana Eadie, a meteorologist at Australia's BOM, said that the heat on Wednesday "will only intensify."
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Yep, the heat is extreme. It's hot as hell. Very concerned for the elderly, the vulnerable, animals and others who don't have anyone looking out for them and reasonable shelter.

Weather watchers have said “it’s almost guaranteed” all-time heat records will be broken in major cities over the coming days as a scorching heatwave marches across the continent.

We could even see Australia’s hottest single day in history. Today, temperatures could exceed 20C above average in some areas with Melbourne likely to hit almost 40C. To put that into perspective, Melbourne usually only gets as high as the mid-twenties in December.

The Riverland of South Australia could breach 50C on Thursday. Sydney’s west could see 46C on Saturday while the 43C forecast in Canberra could be the capital’s hottest ever temperature. “A record heatwave is developing across southern Australia. We’re expecting to break temperature records at dozens of locations across South Australia, the ACT, Victoria and New South Wales,” Sky Weather Channel meteorologist Tom Saunders said.

Sydney, Melbourne weather: Australia could see hottest day ever this week
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Serenity said:
Yep, the heat is extreme. It's hot as hell. Very concerned for the elderly, the vulnerable, animals and others who don't have anyone looking out for them and reasonable shelter.
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I read something the other day about people being concerned about race horses. Apparently the races are still going on but probably should not be.
 
calamity said:
I read something the other day about people being concerned about race horses. Apparently the races are still going on but probably should not be.
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People should not be going outside at all unless they need to in those conditions, never mind going to the races. The horses should not be exposed to those conditions either.
 
Moonglow said:
Talk about parity..
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That does bring up a good point.

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[h=1]Who Is Winning The Climate Wars? (2)[/h]December 17, 2019/ Francis Menton[FONT=&quot]

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  • A few weeks ago (November 22), in a post titled “Who Is Winning The Climate Wars?”, I undertook to begin documenting the ever-growing chasm between the unhinged rhetoric of climate campaigners and the reality out there in the world.
  • You probably know that the UN held its annual big climate conference this year in Madrid during the first two weeks of December. That event provided the occasion for many campaigners to ramp up the volume of their claims, trying once again to stampede government representatives into agreeing to impoverish their people.
  • Let’s collect a few data points over the past several weeks. . . .
  • Bottom line: It’s not just uber hypocrites like Mike Bloomberg and his four private jets. The fact is that outside of some wildly guilty European countries and the loons of the U.S. Democratic Party far left, fewer and fewer people pay any attention whatsoever to the absurd climate apocalypse rhetoric. . . .
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Hottest ever day in Australia — especially if you ignore history


Tuesday was Australia’s hottest day on record sayth the Bureau of Meteorology.

And perhaps it was. But look at the temperatures reported in newspapers across the country during the month of January in 1896 when people were going mad with axes, dropping dead in coaches and railway stations and birds were falling lifeless from the trees? Emergency trains were ferrying people from the country to the mountains. Panic stricken people fled the outback on special trains and the death toll was in the hundreds.
Fifty years later scientists would publish papers talking about how Australian summers had cooled since then.
How does the BOM know for sure that it was not hotter on any one of these days? Perhaps they don’t. Wouldn’t it be more honest of the BOM to mention that? It’s not like billions of dollars depends upon it…

Seems the only time the ABC or BOM suddenly discover our historic weather records is when we get unseasonal snow or freezing cold.
See below for the links to the newspaper stories for all of these temperatures (Click to enlarge the map)
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Photo: Jo Nova
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The heatwave started in the West on Jan 1st and travelled eastwards, as most heatwaves do. The hottest day was possibly Jan 23 or 24 in 1896 which is when most of the Eastern States maximum temperatures shown above were recorded. And there are hints that this was both widespread and long — some of these towns recorded three long weeks of ultra high temperatures close to and over 110F (43.3C) like Nannine in WA (near Meekatharra) and Cunnamulla in Qld. Both reported peaks as high as 120F (48.8C). In Bourke temperatures were above 102F (38.9C) for 24 days in a row. . . .


 
LOL at Jack's furious posting of individual location records in a ridiculous attempt to counter a country-wide record! :lamo
 
Surface Detail said:
Yes, if you're a historian. Scientists call them unreliable data.

Did you not realise that newspaper reports do not necessarily accurately reflect facts?
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Given the Australian BoM's dubious record of "adjusting" and "disappearing" inconvenient data, I trust the old newspapers more than the new climate bureaucrats. And given the sheer numbers of newspaper accounts, their credibility is enhanced even further.
 
Jack Hays said:
Given the Australian BoM's dubious record of "adjusting" and "disappearing" inconvenient data, I trust the old newspapers more than the new climate bureaucrats. And given the sheer numbers of newspaper accounts, their credibility is enhanced even further.
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Don't be silly. Newspaper reports are not scientific data. Newspapers have no obligation to be accurate; their purpose is simply to make money. Only a fool believes unquestioningly what they read in the papers.
 
The Australian BoM's "dubious record of "adjusting" and "disappearing" inconvenient data" is, presumably, something you just made up :roll:
 
Surface Detail said:
Here's a graph of the temperature of Australia based on actual meteorological data:
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The Australian Bureau of Met hides 50 years of very hot days


History is being wiped out
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has not only disappeared the Very Hot Days graph but they have wiped out thousands of 40 plus hot days in the years from 1910 – 1963 — years when almost all temperatures in Australia were recorded on Stevenson screens by trained officials under the central management of the Bureau. Volunteer, Chris Gillham, found the data and the changes between ACORN 1 and ACORN 2 and created this transformative graph below.
1952 had more hot days than any year since. Not any more. All those poor sods in 1952 who endured an average twenty one 40-degree-plus days will find now that it wasn’t really that hot. The BoM is like an air conditioner that cools the country 70 years in the past. And it’s only a million dollars a day…
As Craig Kelly MP points out — 2011 had the fewest “very hot days” of the last century, but even the recent data from expert equipment can change eight years later.
Chris Gillham also tested the effect of the latest secret ACORN 2 changes on the “old century” 100F cut off, and found, remarkably that there were more “hotter-than-100″ days [...]

Whopper part II: Look what the BoM did to the last three Februarys in Australia?!


The Bureau of Meteorology did what to February?
Wow, just wow. Look what the Bureau of Meteorology has covertly done to February? Something like one third of a degree has been added to the average Australian summer maximum anomalies over the past few years according to the “expert” data from the worlds-best-practise equipment.
In the BOM Whopper Part 1 we revealed that in the BOM’s latest round of unannounced adjustments there were big increases in the rate of Australian summer warming. It turns out a lot of the summer rise comes from changes to February. Mysteriously, there were large changes to the national average of the last three years. Let that sink in.
These changes were incomprehensible because while the averaged “whole nation” got warmer, there were no changes to the data in any of the 104 individual stations.
It’s all rather spooky… but what it isn’t, is scientific.
The two main points in Bob Fernley Jones’ work:
There are big increases to measurements recorded in the last three years? Why? Yet again, the adjustments are down in the early years, up in the latter years, and overall, the rate of warming, surprise, increases thanks to man-made adjustments. He [...]

Raw Data Bombshell: no change in Very Hot Days in Australia since World War I


What a bombshell. Despite the non-stop stories of unprecedented heat the original data at 60 of the oldest sites across Australia shows there are no more Very-Hot-Days now than there were early last century. That’s no trend in 40 degree days for 100 years. No change – that is, until the Bureau of Meteorology adjusts the data…
After we were shocked at the latest ACORN changes to our Very Hot Days data, I asked Chris Gillham if we could see the effect of Bureau of Meteorology changes to the original raw data – and he replied it would be too time-consuming writing the code to calculate 40C+ days among the millions of daily temperatures from 112 weather stations across Australia since 1910. Then he did it anyway.
Wow. In 2011, the BoM’s ACORN 1 adjustments wiped out some of the “very hot days” recorded at weather stations in the early 1900s. These were records that had stood for a whole century. Then, quietly six years later, the ACORN 2 readjustments turned the statistical air conditioner on again and cooled people from 100 years in the future.
It’s all especially miraculous given that even the old World War I data was recorded in [...]
 
Jack Hays said:
The Australian Bureau of Met hides 50 years of very hot days


History is being wiped out
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has not only disappeared the Very Hot Days graph but they have wiped out thousands of 40 plus hot days in the years from 1910 – 1963 — years when almost all temperatures in Australia were recorded on Stevenson screens by trained officials under the central management of the Bureau. Volunteer, Chris Gillham, found the data and the changes between ACORN 1 and ACORN 2 and created this transformative graph below.
1952 had more hot days than any year since. Not any more. All those poor sods in 1952 who endured an average twenty one 40-degree-plus days will find now that it wasn’t really that hot. The BoM is like an air conditioner that cools the country 70 years in the past. And it’s only a million dollars a day…
As Craig Kelly MP points out — 2011 had the fewest “very hot days” of the last century, but even the recent data from expert equipment can change eight years later.
Chris Gillham also tested the effect of the latest secret ACORN 2 changes on the “old century” 100F cut off, and found, remarkably that there were more “hotter-than-100″ days [...]

Whopper part II: Look what the BoM did to the last three Februarys in Australia?!


The Bureau of Meteorology did what to February?
Wow, just wow. Look what the Bureau of Meteorology has covertly done to February? Something like one third of a degree has been added to the average Australian summer maximum anomalies over the past few years according to the “expert” data from the worlds-best-practise equipment.
In the BOM Whopper Part 1 we revealed that in the BOM’s latest round of unannounced adjustments there were big increases in the rate of Australian summer warming. It turns out a lot of the summer rise comes from changes to February. Mysteriously, there were large changes to the national average of the last three years. Let that sink in.
These changes were incomprehensible because while the averaged “whole nation” got warmer, there were no changes to the data in any of the 104 individual stations.
It’s all rather spooky… but what it isn’t, is scientific.
The two main points in Bob Fernley Jones’ work:
There are big increases to measurements recorded in the last three years? Why? Yet again, the adjustments are down in the early years, up in the latter years, and overall, the rate of warming, surprise, increases thanks to man-made adjustments. He [...]

Raw Data Bombshell: no change in Very Hot Days in Australia since World War I


What a bombshell. Despite the non-stop stories of unprecedented heat the original data at 60 of the oldest sites across Australia shows there are no more Very-Hot-Days now than there were early last century. That’s no trend in 40 degree days for 100 years. No change – that is, until the Bureau of Meteorology adjusts the data…
After we were shocked at the latest ACORN changes to our Very Hot Days data, I asked Chris Gillham if we could see the effect of Bureau of Meteorology changes to the original raw data – and he replied it would be too time-consuming writing the code to calculate 40C+ days among the millions of daily temperatures from 112 weather stations across Australia since 1910. Then he did it anyway.
Wow. In 2011, the BoM’s ACORN 1 adjustments wiped out some of the “very hot days” recorded at weather stations in the early 1900s. These were records that had stood for a whole century. Then, quietly six years later, the ACORN 2 readjustments turned the statistical air conditioner on again and cooled people from 100 years in the future.
It’s all especially miraculous given that even the old World War I data was recorded in [...]
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More blog conspiracy crap.
 
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