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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Flanagan (05:25:37) Just don’t worry, those hot temps that are haunting you are only the consequence of a well known paradoxical weather effect recently named after its provoker: the “Gore Effect”.
Off topic but IMPORTANT:
The Third International Conference on Climate Change will be held in Washington, DC on June 2, 2009
http://www.heartland.org/events/WashingtonDC09/index.html
Ah, but, but, but, Oz is seeing record lows for the entire continent! I would suggest that this is something a little out of the norm. How frequently do temperature records fall for an entire continent at the same time? While this certainly is not out of normal possibility, what exactly are the odds?
And I find it interesting that similar such happenings also occurred this past winter here in the US. While again, this is probably not out of the realm of nature variability (as all climate and weather is), I do believe it is an interesting topic and one worthy of the attention Anthony has given it here.
And to clarify why there were likely no postings about record highs in Oz, first, they were not continent wide (happening at a single moment), and secondly, why should Anthony regurgitate the very same story that we were all bombarded with 24/7 by the MSM? That would seem rather mute to me.
This is an interesting anomaly and worth discussing and speculating about!
Keep up the good work Anthony!
Had a nice dump of snow in Blue Mtns. of NE Oregon my favorite Ski area
Anthony lakes – is closed. When had that western warm spell it’s now back to
March in late April.What I have noticed,(Warmist heresy warning-anechtdotal
tale-about to be told about-Weather-) .One of the things I have noticed is some of our local records-high and low date back to the late 40’s-when my pop and the local graingrowers were seriously considering Barley as a cash crop-as nothng would mature fast enough.I fear that this comong winter may be worse
than ’48,-’56. Is this a World wide phenom? hmm?..
vukcevic,
since Antarticat is growing, not melting away, perhaps you can rationalize yet another explanation as to why a cooling Oz is really AGW?
And enjoy the vino tinto, mi amigo ;^).
What is the latitude of Charlotte Pass? Wiki does not show.
OT Meanwhile not looking out the window
Article in Nature concludes that we can only burn 25% of the remaining carbon fuels or risk catastrophic……
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2009-04-29-climate-emissions-limit_N.htm
I guess the cycle 23 sunspots today are driving the climate at an unusual rate.
Looks like things are turning around for Australia!!
Dill Weed
Speaking of temperatures… here is an email I sent…
Mike Bryant
(ME)@yahoo.com
Subject: Timeliness
Message: Is there a reason that this nice website has not been updated on the temperature records? Is anyone taking care of this site? Perhaps I can get an answer from the site administrator. It is very difficult to explain this laxity to my students.
Referring Page: http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/index.cfm
And response:
Flag this messageRe: GCCq: TimelinessWednesday, April 29, 2009 11:04 AMFrom: “Jackson, Randal K” Add sender to Contacts To: “(ME).com” Dear Mike,
Thanks for your comments. The global average temperature chart has been updated to include 2008:
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/index.cfm#GlobalTemperature
Best regards,
—
Randal Jackson
Senior Interactive Media Producer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov
Now maybe they can straighten up the rest of that website…
But… but… but… a month of low temperatures is ONLY a month of weather… and has nothing to do with climate… other than it being a very frigging cold winter for that area with record lows for the month…!!!
Weather is climate is weather.
What the heck is going on, Australia was where I was going to go when the new ice age descends upon Canada. Now I have to pick someplace else to seek refuge. I gather that Costa Rica and Panama will get very densely populated…
Douglas DC (10:47:13) :It seems that we are repeating the 1956 weather conditions..as PDO it is entering in its cold phase, watch the third graph, starting from above:
http://www.stormx.com/agriculture/severe-weather/2009/04/the-pacific-oceans-influence-on-climate-change-how-low-will-the-pdo-go/
hunter (10:53:30) :
” vukcevic,
since Antarticat is growing, not melting away, perhaps you can rationalize yet another explanation as to why a cooling Oz is really AGW? ”
In the last few weeks there were numerous reports of the Wilkins ice shelf detaching itself from Antarctica. Although these reports are partially correct, probably details are inaccurate, there is always possibility that actually Antarctica is detaching itself from the Wilkins ice shelf and slowly drifting in the North direction. I need help here from my Ozy friends; is Australia NE or NW from Antarctica or … ?
RonPE (11:25:26) :
37° South , about 1,800 miles north from south magnetic pole.
vukcevic (09:34:01) South pole it is indeed travelling to Australia:
South Magnetic Pole (1998) 64°36′S 138°30′E
(2004 est) 63°30′S 138°00′E
Mike Bryant
Wow, did you see the drop in temp, CO and sea levels?
I love the way they do those graphs to get the max eye popping effect and how the mini ice age is the start of the temp. graph.
100ppm of CO2? It’s a joke to think that’s causing global warming. Does not matter though, the voters put Obama in control like a dictator and Cap and Tax is coming soon.
OT: A TRIVIA for all:
Where does the Sun SIT ON?
Not a joke. Answer must be actual, real, without any shade of doubt.
Answer..a few posts below.
Trevor (05:16:39)
. . . temperatures in the story above are in Centigrade
“Centigrade” – I still say that frequently. It’s and age thing, I guess, rather then geographical because on that score we in the USA still use the Fahrenheit scale.
Leon Brozyna (10:20:56) : said,
O/T
Yep, that’s a pretty solid SC23 sunspeck all right; southern hemisphere, low latitude, right magnetic signature. Or, as solarcycle24.com puts it, “Like a bad ex-lover… Cycle 23 will just not let go.”
It’s also been picked up by Catania, so it’s sure to get counted by SIDC. Not yet picked up by SWPC as of 1718 UTC, but that could change.
Yes but would it have been seen back in the 1600`s.
Adolfo Giurfa
thanks for the link, good info. I wonder how NASA and Gore feel about this info, they must be panicked to get Cap and Tax in before it cools too much.
I can accept this. Seeing as how 25% of the remaining carbon fuels should last us oh, about 2 million years or so, that seems pretty acceptable to me. I will worry about AGW then .. In the meantime .. Don’t worry, be happy!
Trevor (05:18:35) wrote:
”
Also, we don’t use the term “Fall” in Aus at all. It is “Autumn”.”
Too bad. Here’s Henry Fowler’s opinion, from The King’s English, p. 33:
“Fall is better on its merits than Autumn, in every way. It is short, Saxon (like the other three season names), picturesque. It reveals its derivation to everyone who uses it, not to the scholar only, like autumn; and we once had as good a right to use it as the Americans; but we have chosen to let the right lapse ….”
Blessed be the net,as it has saved me from the gospel according to Gore.
Just like last spring
http://www.timberlinelodge.com/conditions/
Snowing 29 degrees
NEW SNOWFALL (in past 24 hours): 9 in.
SNOWFALL (in past 72 hours): 10 in.
BASE DEPTH: 194 in.
ANNUAL SNOWFALL: 640 in.
jon (06:06:31) sunspot data
This may not be quite what you want but it is interesting:
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:bwB0RZgFlkoJ:www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/v31n1/48.ps+Waldmeier,+M.:+1961,+The+Sunspot+Activity&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
A History of the Zurich and American Relative SunspotNumber Indices
Minus 13° C. in April is the equivalent of – 13° in October in the Northern Hemisphere. That would be extremely cold so early in the pre-winter season here. Or should I say the post-summer season?