I swear, I had nothing to do with this. Speaking tonight in Canberra, details here. Weather records for Sydney here.
From the “weather is not climate department”:
Sydney recorded its coldest June morning today since 1949, with temperatures diving to 4.3 degrees just before 6:00am (AEST).
Cold snap set to stay By Amy Simmons
Experts say it is unusual to see such widespread cold weather in June. (User submitted photo: Rick Box)
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People across south-east Australia are complaining about unusually chilly temperatures and experts say there will be no relief from the cold until Sunday at the earliest.
From Brisbane this morning, Miss7t7 wrote on Twitter “Still in bed, so dam cold.. What’s going on Brisbane !!!!”. While in Melbourne, lexandraKR tweeted “Waiting for frostbite to set in… Sooo cold in Melbourne! Too scared to get out of bed incase I get hypothermia”.
Others are embracing the weather and urging those who are complaining to toughen up.
“I am in love with this cold weather. Melbourne reminds me of Paris at the moment. How can that be a bad thing?” wrote hannahjtoy. “Is it seriuosly newsworthy that sydney temps are in the low single digits? seriuosly? it not cold! suck it up!” FilthiAssistant tweeted.
But ABC weather specialist Graham Creed says people’s complaints are justified.
“It’s definitely quite unusual to see such widespread cold weather in June, it would be more typical in July and August,” he said.
“So people are complaining about the cold for a good reason.”
Mr Creed says most areas across the south-east are experiencing temperatures well below average.
“Last weekend a cool change moved through and that introduced some significantly colder air across most of south-east Australia,” he said.
“Quickly in behind that we had a high pressure ridge move through, producing clear skies during both the day and the night, but it’s also helping to trap that cold air in.
“The clear skies mean we are losing what little daytime heating there is and overnight temperatures are dropping into the minuses through many of those states, producing widespread frosts.
“On top of that we’ve got quite a breeze in certain areas and the air is very dry so that’s producing very low wind chill, so not only is the sun not providing much warmth, you’ve also got the assistance of the wind making it feel colder than it actually is.”
He says Queensland is in for a particularly rough few days, as widespread rainfall will see the conditions change from cold and sunny to cold, cloudy and wet.
Yesterday, an icy blast through Adelaide brought enough rain to supply the city for a month, with a hail storm capping off the exceptionally wintry day.
Yesterday was also the coldest day in Melbourne in nearly two years, with the city not reaching its maximum temperature of 10.8 degrees Celsius until 7:55pm (AEST).
If the temperature in Melbourne fails to hit its forecast maximum today, it will be the first time in 14 years the city has recorded three consecutive days of temperatures below 12 degrees.
Last night Brisbane was coldest at 9:00pm (AEST), when the mercury dropped to below 8 degrees, but experts say it will be even cooler tonight.
Sydney recorded its coldest June morning today since 1949, with temperatures diving to 4.3 degrees just before 6:00am (AEST).
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We are on the green road to hell.
Want to “Save the planet”? No more toast for you, then.
Stop using toasters, islanders are told.
Residents of a Scottish island that claims to be the world’s greenest have been told to cut their power use because a shortage of rain is starving its hydro-electric generators. Renewable energy usually provides Eigg, in the Inner Hebrides, with 92% of its electricity, but it has not had any significant rain since May.
The 70 or so islanders have been warned to avoid using power-hungry appliances such as toasters in case demand for power makes their back-up diesel generators chug into life.
In January, the community won a £300,000 prize to spend on projects which reduce carbon emissions. (They can’t manage to say “carbon dioxide”)
You heard it here first. In the new “low carbon” economy you can only have toast if it has been raining.
I work outdoors at Balmoral Beach and start work at 6:00am – it was bloody freezing!
Please please give me a little bit of global warming:)
But it can’t be anything to do with the sun being quiet… nononononononono
Cold winters 2008-9 2009-10 Quiet sun – long minimum, cycle 24 flops.
Cold winters 1970’s low solar cycle
Cold winters 1900-1914 low solar cycles
Cold winters 1800-1820 very low solar cycles
Cold winters 1600’s very few sunspots seen for 50 years – Thames and Rhine freeze.
Here in Port Macquarie (31 degrees south on the east coast of NSW) I used a hose to wash the frost/ice off the car this morning. It didn’t work. So I scraped it off with my credit card and my daughter (7) was so excited to see the “snow”! We have reasonably regular frosts but this one was pretty heavy for us. I just hope my mango trees survive. Up in Glen Innes, in the great dividing range west of here, I understand it went down to -10.
It is pretty cold here in Perth WA as well – Anthony you may recall when you were here last Sunday we’d just experienced -0.6 C. Rain predicted tomorrow and temperature will be just above freezing again in parts of Perth. Wonder if there will be flurries of snow on the Darling Range?
John Gorter
What ‘record cold’? Nothing here has broken an all-time record yet.You do recall that Melbourne experienced its longest ever duration of consecutive daily maxima of 20C or more-123 days-over the last summer and autumn. Previous record was 78 days in 2007/8. April 2009 to April 2010 in Victoria and Tasmania was their warmest 12 months for that period since records began.
What about the northern African/Middle eastern heatwave,eh? Pheew…
Brrrr! Living in a ninety year old house in Sydney, near the sea, (over optimistically) designed for a warm climate – with added winter ocean warmth -but with insufficient heating (nice in summer thankyou), but stll warmer than those parts further inland, one lies in bed at midnight, scrunched up against the cold – watching the tennis at Wimbledon – in 30 degreeC heat. Coldwave vs heatwave!
Kyneton (500m Elevation) in Central Victoria is usually cold in winter but Monday was exceptionally cold starting out at -4.5 and with a max of 7.1, yesterday was even colder with a max of 5.1 brrr with strong northerly winds most unusual as the cold winds generally come from the south. I say thank God for global warming otherwise it would be really cold!
I’m not buying it.
They’re saying the clear skies overnight are the cause for losing daytime heating. But… we all know that clouds, being merely water, can’t possibly hold in heat. Not only that, but we also all know that CO2 is a much more effective blanket, holding in heat.
So, ignore the thermometer (climatologists do, and what’s good for them is good for me) and realize that this is actually a sign of a nearing tipping point of hyper-global heating.
Nick: “What ‘record cold’? Nothing here has broken an all-time record yet.You do recall that Melbourne experienced its longest ever duration of consecutive daily maxima of 20C or more-123 days-over the last summer and autumn. Previous record was 78 days in 2007/8. April 2009 to April 2010 in Victoria and Tasmania was their warmest 12 months for that period since records began.
What about the northern African/Middle eastern heatwave,eh? Pheew”
You’re not gettin this are you Nick? Well that’s not surprising because the words climate change have been confated with global warming. Climate is always changing, up and down, more precipitation, less precipitation, warming cooling etc. What the warmists have been doing is pointing to every weather event as signs of global warming, Hurricane Katrina, the European 2005 heatwave etc. Then it went cold, and suddenly weather ceased to be an omen of global warming it became, well, weather not climate. They’re just rubbing it in, you know highlighting that if there weren’t these record lows the heatwave in the Middle East would have been touted as the result of GHG emissions, it’s a bit difficult to do that if you have simultaneous record lows. Hope this has clarified it for you.
Bulletin from Melbourne:
Yes, it is cold, but the good part is that it is also raining. Sixteen wet days in here in June.
Folks, this is just like the ‘real’ winters I remember from my childhood during the 1930’s and through early adulthood in the 1950’s.
We might have to get used to it again after the drier and milder conditions that have prevailed since the 1997/8 El Nino. This could be the start of the colder period that many, like tallbloke, are predicting might result from a persistently quieter Sun.
To those in Australia feel the cold from one who lives in Switzerland.
Try the Swiss “cure” for cold weather, – Eat melted Cheese! Fondue, Raclette, Spätzli (Fried pasta with melted cheese) etc. It’s the one culinary contribution the Swiss made to the world. Not very imaginative, but it sure keeps the cold out, even at -15C daytime temp.
I haven’t checked the records, but it seems a colder June here in Adelaide than it has been for many years as well.. I also note over at Chiefio’s, the coffee in Brazil is iced.
Weather isn’t climate, but climate is weather 🙂
I fail to comprehend why, when the “models” and Joe Bastardi appear to agree that we’re in for a prolonged major cooling, there are no screaming headlines in the mainstream media to that effect. The powers that be and their spokesmen are still blithely prattling on about low carbon this and that, “saving” the planet for our grandchildren, etc., etc,. whilst all the time Mr. Planet carries on as he’s always done in his cyclical way, regardless of all these stupid human efforts to tame him.
All the signs and portents for cold are there, but they’re being ignored, when the world at large SHOULD be being warned and given assistance to prepare. Instead of which, the truth is being kept very quiet. What happens over the next few years, and it gets progressively cooler, and governments are totally unprepared, spurning proper generation capacity in favour of useless wind and solar farms?
Surely governments are not that stupid to not believe what is so evidently happening?
I’m a mere layman, and I can see the writing on the wall, why can’t they?
Or is it it one gigantic conspiracy after all? And if so, what happens when everything we suspect will occur, comes to pass? What will these charlatans have achieved, other than total world poverty? And will they be permitted to get away with it?
Why are they preparing for one unlikely eventuality, when it’s so obvious that the opposite scenario is just around the corner.
It sends shivers down my spine. Is this the level of madnes that those governing us have descended to? It’s not as though they’re all going to make a mint out of carbon trading and promoting windmills, and escape somewhere safe whilst we all suffer – they, too, will still have to exist somewhere, and hopefully will suffer the same predicament eventually.
I’m just gobsmacked at some of the rubbish spouted by Lord this, or Lord that on the TV and radio, about how we all need to cut carbon emissions, and those interviewing them never bother to question the whole idea, they just blandly accept everything they’re told.
Have we become some sort of dangerous, subversive intelligentsia under-class, now labelled “deniers”? If so, it speaks volumes about those who “believe”. I was always under the impression that a civilised world was basically a more sensible one, but it would appear that the reverse is true.
It’ll soon be far too late for “told you so’s”
Its so cold because its getting warmer…surely? Simples
My bike computer told me is was 3 degrees here in Sydney just before 7am. I believed it – halfway into work, I thought my ears were going to snap off.
Nick: “What ‘record cold’? Nothing here has broken an all-time record yet.You do recall that Melbourne experienced its longest ever duration of consecutive daily maxima of 20C or more-123 days-over the last summer and autumn. Previous record was 78 days in 2007/8. April 2009 to April 2010 in Victoria and Tasmania was their warmest 12 months for that period since records began.
Nick, Nick, Nick, have you heard about UHI effect. Check out the location of Melbourne’s weather station in Victoria Street. Melbourne has developed a little since it was established and this would account for the run of above 20 degree days last summer. It certainly wasn’t the case in the outer suburbs!
tallbloke said:
“Cold winters 1970′s low solar cycle.”
Well yes, cycle 20 was lower than cycles 19 and 21, 22 and 23 but the trouble is that it was still pretty active in historical terms. Also cycle 19 was the highest but still the globe was cooling.
That’s pretty much why long ago I decided one really needed to introduce another factor and I chose the oceanic oscillations because they were negative during high cycles 19 and 20 but positive for cycles 21, 22 and 23 which served to fit the observations very nicely.
So it’s the solar / oceanic interplay that gives the best fit and then there’s those other pesky ‘coincidences’ of a cooling stratosphere and falling ozone levels and positive polar oscillations with more poleward jets all happening at the same time as the more active sun and all going into reverse from the late 90s as the solar activity levels dropped after the peak of cycle 23.
It’s no longer a matter of whether solar influences are significant but how such small changes in raw power output from the sun can produce so many simultaneous effects on our energy budget and atmospheric chemistry with substantial climate consequences despite the much more powerful oceanic effects.
That’s what we need to resolve.
Loving the cold, but as a Canberran, it comes with the territory. A long string of sub-zero nights, very frosty mornings and dry conditions. Brilliant! To anyone who can’t take it, HTFU!
Not at the talk this evening because, well, 6.30pm is a very un-family friendly time to run stuff. :/
Fingers of cold reach westwards across the Pacific and northwards from Antarctica relentlessly marching on towards an Australia already suffering at the hands of the England Cricket Team.
The Atlantic cools in sympathy and we await the first hurricane of the forecast active season.
The one bright spot for trolls, who are akin to lizards in their love of warmth, is the warm anomaly off Greenland, Where Gaia, having moved El Nino heat northwards in a mocking display of humour, keeps their hopes and witterings alive in a last attack on the sea ice summer minimum, before she punishes us all for having the temerity to suppose that we might forecast and control the complexities of climate.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
Here in Newman, Pilbara region of Western Australia, it is………cold, but this is normal for this time of the year in a desert environment.
Usually a snap cold event has previously been associated with Al Gore, but as he has been somewhat quiet these weeks, might he be secretly hiding in Oz?
I have a couple of questions, and I’m hoping the more scientifically-literate of you can spare a moment to help:
1. Can anyone point me to a graphical synopsis of all the various model “predictions” that lie behind the “consensus” on CAGW, plotting also the instrumental record, for comparison? It would be quite interesting to start the series early enough to include the “global cooling” predictions.
2. One of the difficulties faced by proponents of CAGW theory is surely in dealing with the “weather isn’t climate” issue. As I understand it CAGW postulates a “tipping point” whereat the pace of climate change would accelerate at such a pace that “climate” would indeed begin to vary on a timescale similar to “weather”. Sceptics seem to be at no such disadvantage, and may fairly point to the failure of the climate to warm over a short timescale as disconfirmation of CAGW, while equally fairly dismissing hot weather as evidence of a warming climate. Have I got this right? If not, why not?
The “Al Gore Effect” must be gaining strength. I understand he’s in California.
I swear, I had nothing to do with this. Speaking tonight in Canberra, details here. Weather records for Sydney here.
Dont worry Anthony, your power is to control sunspot activity by use of negative feedback, Al Gore is the one that brings in cold snap’s (unless there is a massage therapist nearby, alegedly 🙂 ). So unless you invited Al down for a talk, the cold cannot be your fault.
It is to be expected around the solstices that polar and high lattitude temperatures will be going the opposite directions at each pole. At the equinoxes, they move in unison.
I was talking with Piers about this happening recently, with the heat waves we have been getting in the N.Hemisphere, I was anticipating much cooler weather in the South of Australia, but not the North;
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=minanom&period=week&area=nat
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=maxanom&period=week&area=nat