Minus 13 degrees – the coldest it’s been in April
From Weatherzone – Brett Dutschke,
Wednesday April 29, 2009 – 14:58 EST
A new Australian record was set early this morning, a temperature of minus 13 degrees, at Charlotte Pass on the Snowy Mountains.
This is the lowest temperature recorded anywhere in Australia in April and is 13 below the average. Nearby at Perisher it dipped to minus 11 degrees and at the top of Thredbo it dipped to minus 10.
Across the border, on the Victorian Alps April records were broken at Mt Hotham where it chilled to minus eight degrees and Mt Buller and Falls Creek where it got as low as minus seven.
A few other locations set April low temperature records also. In Tasmania Lake Leake was as cold as minus six, Sheffield and Dover both reached minus one and Flinders island got to zero. Hobart had its coldest April night in 46 years, recording a low of 1.7 degrees, seven below average.
While much of inland NSW and Victoria will be colder tomorrow morning than it was this morning under clearer skies, the Alps should be a little warmer due to a rise in humidity.
Note, all temperatures in the story above are in Centigrade. Photo and map added by Anthony.
Here are the all-time highs and lows for the continent of Australia (source Perth Weather Center)
HIGHEST RECORDED TEMPERATURE:
- Oodnadatta, South Australia 50.7 C (123.3 F) on the 2nd January, 1960
LOWEST RECORDED TEMPERATURE:
- Charlotte Pass, New South Wales -23.0 C (-9.4 F) on the 29th June, 1994
While this is certainly a significant new cold record this early in Australia’s fall going on winter, one must always remember that weather is not climate. – Anthony
(h/t to WUWT reader “Chuck”)
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Anthony, et al,
just thought you might want to know what was on the local news here in salt lake city last night – Mr. James Hansen was in town giving a presentation at the university of utah on global warming. at some point, Mr Hansen joined a support protest for a U of U student who disrupted an oil and gas bid process by the BLM, driving the price of selected parcels up substantially. Mr. DeChristopher, the student bid several million dollars knowingly and intentionly, not having the money to pay which cost legitimate bidders substantial amounts of money. the parcels in question were near national parks in utah – so the reason for the ‘protest’. Mr Hansen stated that he supported this civil disobedience because ‘ we dont have to extract every bit of oil and gas in this country’. you might want to take a look at the footage, it was on Fox news last night here in salt lake city.
rj
OOOOH, I just love when we talk about the weather!
After several non-summer trips to WET WINDY NZ (brrrr), I sure won’t be headed back thataway until January, knowing that the quiet sun is at least closer during SH summers, some 500,000km?
NZ reports 1400 excess winter deaths from cold. I’d like to hope for just enough cold worldwide to stop this AWG insanity in the press, but not enough to kill off children and elderly.
NOT Off Topic (unless you believe the Sun Doesn’t Count)
Cycle 24 just threw-up another minispot in the middle latitudes.
See Solarcycle24.com.
What’s the latest sunpot (days into the cycle) ever recorded?
Just wondering, as this almost seems WORSE than no spots at all.
It’s as if the spot polarity is meta-stable between the two cycles.
What would it mean, for example, if we are still seeing SC23 spots a year from now, say alternating with mini SC24 spots of roughly the same magnitude as we are seeing now? That can’t be good.
Houses are cheap in South Texas, y’all.
I guess it all depends on who is measuring what.
According to the Environmental Defense Fund:
MYTH: Recent cold winters and cool summers don’t feel like global warming to me.
FACT: While different pockets of the country have experienced some cold winters here and there, the overall trend is warmer winters.
Measurements show that over the last century the Earth’s climate has warmed overall, in all seasons, and in most regions. Climate skeptics mislead the public when they claim that the winter of 2003–2004 was the coldest ever in the northeastern United States. That winter was only the 33rd coldest in the region since records began in 1896. Furthermore, a single year of cold weather in one region of the globe is not an indication of a trend in the global climate, which refers to a long-term average over the entire planet.
But according to NOAA the warmth in the northeast may be OVERSTATED by the EDF: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2009/feb/12-02Regionalprank_pg.gif
And according to my own local measurements, both EDF and NOAA seem to SIGNIFICANTLY OVERSTATE the warmth:
February – http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5jZxTCSlm0/SbXauqg6nAI/AAAAAAAACv0/surdiEqfZzU/s1600-h/February+2009+Actual+Versus+Normal.JPG
January – http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b5jZxTCSlm0/SYW37S0A1AI/AAAAAAAACsI/HQZGU8-TuVU/s1600-h/January+2009+Actual+Versus+Normal.JPG
December – http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5jZxTCSlm0/SVz6DhoxZmI/AAAAAAAACXY/cXJ3K3I_8Xc/s1600-h/December+2008+Actual+Versus+Normal.JPG
The 2 most significant things going on right now are subservient to the whim of the current agenda: AGW.
Cooling of the Globe and Waning of Solar Activity.
Like 2 trains on the same track going in opposite directions, the signals missed, the collision imminent & the damage will be significant. Not a simple derailing.
“If this were 13 degrees above average and a new warm record for Australia it would be…” ignored by this blog. You do love to highlight places where it’s colder than average, apparently with the aim of proving that the world is not warming. To assess the significance of these cold records, you could always read the quite perceptive analysis posted here.
After a very hot news-making week here in California, where many records were broken, we are now experiencing colder than normal temps, which do not make the news. To be fair, the lows aren’t as low as the highs were high..
Pat,
The Australian BOM claimed that we will have a mild winter. We will have to wait and see.
When I read this, I thought about
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/27/are-record-temperatures-abnormal/
No continental record high temperatures recorded since 1974. Any ideas on whether record low temperatures have been recorded?
I live in Fremantle Western Australia and I have to say that it certainly has not been a cool autumn here. We re now well into Autumn have had very little rain and temperaures are still aroun 26 Celsius. Please don’t forget WA in the “Australia widew stories” as many of us who live here who are very supportive of this blog’s ethos.
Global warming alarmists out in cold
Andrew Bolt
April 29, 2009
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25401759-5000117,00.html
Name just three clear signs the planet is warming as the alarmists claim it should. Just three. Chances are your “proofs” are in fact on my list of 10 Top Myths about global warming.
And if your “proofs” indeed turn out to be false, don’t get angry with me.
Just ask yourself: Why do you still believe that man is heating the planet to hell? What evidence do you have?
So let’s see if facts matter more to you than faith, and observations more than predictions.
“weather is not climate.”
Yes, I am aware of it. But all this cold from around the world the past 2 years is adding up to something.
This is confusing.
Hearing dire Australian govt and media pronouncements, I thought Australia was supposed to be the first major victim of AGW with the first wave of Aussie boat people due here is early 2010.
That’s why we should never pay attention to actual temperatures and just meditate on the models instead. It’s so much simpler.
How come your sunspot reader has ‘000’ sunspots for today but the spaceweather site has 11? Even their pic doesn’t show 11, only the one ‘protospot’ they had for yesterday.
It’s been a colder than average spring here as well. Usually have to run the a/c by now on a regular basis. Still waiting to plant my little tomatoes in the garden but the nights have been too chilly.
And we’ve had snow 3 winters in a row. Which hasn’t happened since the 1910’s.
Must be that evil old climate change. Cold is warm, wet is dry, humans are evil.
It’s amazing to me that the press excoriates the right wingers for not wanting anyone to have any fun (sex, drinking, smoking) but gives the gaia worshippers a pass on wanting everyone to simply stop breathing.
Now that the EPA has designated exhaling as polluting…can genocide be far behind?
twawki,
We have seen TWO winters with a preponderance of colder/snowier than normal weather events in the Northern Hemisphere and one…(going on two ?)… winters of colder/snowier than normal weather events in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Antarctic ice mass and extent appear to be much larger than normal. The Arctic ice mass and extent appear to be on a suprisingly fast rebound from the last five years.
The SST have leveled off over the past 6 years, the sea level rise appears to be leveling off as well and all the major temperature monitoring databases have shown a global decline the past 5-10 years.
The sun’s quiet period is extending daily into more rarified historic levels concerning magnetic fields/solar wind/solar wind speed/ sunspot proponderance/TSI, etc. and along with it the possibly associated cosmic ray-cloud impact all leaning toward less solar energy reaching the Earth than we may have seen in quite some time.
There have even been an increase in media majors willing to question the models/theory/science/hysteria about the all-consuming devotion to CO2-caused GW.
You think that maybe we should re-evaluate our current understanding of climate theory?
Let’s see what the rest of your Aussie winter delivers. A colder than normal season will add a tremendous doubt to the CO2 theory…
Jim
OT but we’re still getting cycle 23 sunspots!
http://www.solarcycle24.com/
meanwhile, the ESA has come up with another article on the Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration…and area of “newly” formed icebergs about 700 sq. km in area.
Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMRAVANJTF_index_1.html
However, it is still unclear how the situation will evolve. Humbert noted that, “We are not sure if a new stable ice front will now form between Latady Island, Petrie Ice Rises and Dorsey Island. If the connection to Latady Island is lost, the projected loss of 3370 sq km of ice might be greater – though we have no indication that this will happen in the near future.”
….despite its uncertainty, we will mention it anyway. timed to facilitate passage of cap-and-tax legislation?
Cold here in Healesville, an hour and a half-ish drive north-east of Melbourne. Right now my fingers are so cold it’s hard to type. My heating bills are going to be horrendous this fall/winter season. I don’t remember previous Aprils being as cold; but then again, the 100+ days in February was a new one for me, too.
The high pressure system may have made it hot, but that didn’t cause all the fires. The two main bushfires were caused by a downed power line and an arsonist. My area was hit by the power line fire.
Are comments disabled?
Markedly quiet on the Temperature Profiles for the South Pole region.
Are they hitting -70 C as I have ‘heard in passing’??
Would this not be about 2 months early? (Usual -70 C at June/July?)
Quick, put more Coal into the Power Stations, get into your vehicles, get this planet back on WARMING now !!.
Meanwhile, take another look at the AMSR-E Ice Extent graph on this blog’s side bar. It’s colder on both sides, South and North.
Any theory that is deemed to be proven correct under all test conditions is either perfectly defined or not scentifically valid.
As the Warmists claim that all weather outcomes prove the validity of their theory. Can they also prove under challenge that their theory is perfectly defined ?
If they can’t then their theory is not robust enough to be considered valid.
Given the chaotic and multifaceted nature of the Earth’s Climate inluencing one variable, CO2, and expecting a result is analagous to expecting to alter the trajectory of an aircraft in flight by moving the tray table in front of your seat up and down.
Unfortunately, explaining this to most AGW believers is the same as talking to a brick wall. Yes, we joke about it here, but it’s painfully true.
I really never will understand the mindset that EVERYTHING different or outside of records MUST be bad, and caused by human activity… and more important, we have to do whatever we can to end it.
As I’ve posted before: Calgary had record snowfall this winter, records began in the 1870s… the mountains to the west are still white, just waiting for the spring melt to cause flooding along all the rivers, assuming we get enough warmth. This has been, and will continue to be, a cold time.
I mock those who keep harping about warming climate while we’re experiencing cold records much more frequently than warm.
Mark (07:47:03) : OT but we’re still getting cycle 23 sunspots!
Or…a cycle 25 spot due to high latitude. No one knows…