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”)
Flanagan:
For the 10´th time: The overall cover from the media concerning climate/weather is SO focussed on the warmth!! Even you must have noticed that. So íf you want some kind of justice, do not seek one of the only placed where a little truth about the cold events can be seen!!
If you want balance, you should attack all the medias hyping warming warming warming.
Have you EVER complained over medias with too many warming stories?
If not, look in a mirror an see how balanced you are yourself.
The medias are obviously overdoing the warming stories, so Anthonys alternative viewpoint IS a way to balance things just a tiny little bit.
AND as Anthony writes, he also covers some warm events.
“weather is not climate”
However, climate is the average of weather. So, you could say that climate is nothing without weather.
The word ‘Fall’ for Autumn was used during Henry VIII’s time. Yes, really. So it’s a very English word, not American.
Answer to the Trivia (above)
The Sun sits on the Apex!
Montana buried under 4 feet of snow with 12 foot drifts closing roads.
Just more minor irrelevant weather.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_re_us/us_severe_weather
as agw is supposed to particularly increase lowtemperatures (and thereby being extremely beneficial for plant growth), this downward leap is remarkable.
(probably more remarkable than the cyclon and uhi supported high’s a few weeks ago.)
Just to satisfy my inner Flanagan, I did an informal Google survey by seeing how many hits one gets with the following search items:
+”record high temperature” +”global warming” –> 9900 hits
+”record low temperature” +”global cooling” –> 1060 hits
But, of course we all know that weather is not climate, local ice conditions near the Catlin campsite are not climate, climate models are not climate, …
Whopper of a Snowstorm
“At St. Mary, an outpost 40 miles to the west of Cut Bank, the storm dumped 5 feet of snow! Can you imagine getting 60 inches of snow in a couple of days? . . .The snowstorm is winding down now, but travel conditions over the mountain passes of western Montana are still bad to impossible.”
Nice spring weather!
Did anyone see this hilarious video of Hansen et. al. on a Climate Change march? Apparently Climate Change is killing people in the Southern Hemisphere. Is that because they’re all growing bio-fuels?!!!
David Hagen-
Here’s what it currently looks like just east of East Glacier: http://rwis.mdt.mt.gov/scanweb/swframe.asp?Pageid=RPUStatus&Units=English&Groupid=629000&Siteid=629002&DisplayClass=Java&SenType=All;
The solid red lines are the closed roads. I-15 is closed from Shelby to just north of Great Falls. http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/map/gtfmap_frame.html
While the news is out that Charlotte Pass in Australia has recorded a new minimum low for April, what seems to have slipped through the net is that the nearby resorts of Mt Hotham and Thredbo recorded the lowest maximum temperatures for April only a few days earlier (-3C). Charlotte Pass also recorded it’s lowest ever April maximum on the 26th (-2C).
OT: Latest advice from Al Gore from Tromsø, Norway
– Keep The Snow White
http://www.aftenposten.no/klima/article3050818.ece
Apparently, that will stop climate change. Suddenly it is as important as CO2.
Google translate
http://tinyurl.com/dm9348
If the Antarctic ice extent keeps growing, we can expect some more low temp records in Australia over the entire winter and next year, too. Watch for New Zealand’s glaciers to start expanding again, too. It may be that NZ’s AGW scientist got fired just in time to rescue him from the turnaround. By the way, the latest world glacier monitoring is for 2007- WUWT?
Remember that South Africa had significant snow falls in Cape town and Jo’burg in their SH winter of 2007. I forecasting they will get this “rare” event again this SH winter. I made tongue-in-cheek longterm weather forecasts in Summer 2007 in Canada that the next few winters would be colder and that the following summers would be cooler than average based on the cold winter experienced in the SH . I amazed friends and family who blamed me for the cold winter and all the rainy cool summer weekends during the summer of 2008. I’m still batting 1000 after this winter! Not bad for a geologist-mining engineer! I shall boldy forecast another lousy summer in Canada followed by a cold winter. What the heck, with L.A. in the 50s, I’m going to forecast a cool summer for there, too.
Robinson (14:05:02) :Yes, they are many projects to produce bio-fuels down here….to sell’em to global warming “gringos” believers
There aren’t any mountains in Australia; the picture has to be a fake. The Kosciusco knoll is the highest point, and you can drive right past itm if they haven’t cut the grass for a while.
Those Aussies are a bunch of wild exaggerators !
Ya Gots to go to New Zealand if you want to see Mountains in the Pacific.
George
To all of you who think that “climate is not weather” and that “weather is not climate” learn to think again and embrace the state of the art where there is really no relevant crisp distinction between the two words.
“The steadily increasing resolution of GCMs is blurring the already fuzzy distinction between weather and climate.” – David Lindley..
Then check out these: weather, climate and the limits of predictability articles.
+”record high temperature” +”global warming” –> 9900 hits
+”record low temperature” +”global cooling” –> 1060 hits
or:
+”record low temperature” +”global WARMING”->2960 hits
We are of course “Living in the Shadows of [Climate] Soothsayers”. Waiting till the future arrives is sometimes the only way to predict the future [which is true of climate], especially with Natural Systems! Stephen Wolfram proved that in his book, ‘A New Kind of Science’.
George E. Smith (14:23:20) :
There aren’t any mountains in Australia; the picture has to be a fake. The Kosciusco knoll is the highest point, and you can drive right past itm if they haven’t cut the grass for a while.
It must Courchevel, France where they had 80cms of snow today according to a friend who has a Gite there.
“The steadily increasing resolution of GCMs is blurring the already fuzzy distinction between weather and climate.” – David Lindley..”
I believe “fuzzy” is the operative word here…
We should start a list of things that are not climate…
NSIDC data are not climate.
EPA CO2 declarations are not climate.
Sloppy GISS surface temperature data records are not climate.
(…continue…)
twawki asked if the northern hemisphere was not also getting some mid-spring snow.
Yep. We had some record snows on the south slopes of the Alps here in Switzerland over the past few days.
That’s only “weather”, of course (“background noise”), but if we have a hot spell somewhere this summer it will be “climate” (and proof of rampant AGW).
Max
Re: Flanagan
Lets be absolutely clear on this, Australia has not recently set any Australia wide all time record highs.
Anthony: It would be useless for you to post about record high temperatures as you’d have to go live in a cave to not hear about them. Thanks for posting this though; I’m not optimistic about hearing it from any other source despite the fact that it’s ‘only weather’.
Anthony,
Weather is apparently climate in Germany where record high temperatures for April have apparently been recorded:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=ahs1ryfnjpW8&refer=germany
According to the article in Bloomberg (!) that country’s climate agency head Wolfgang Kusch was quoted as saying that:
“The climate train is not only rolling along, it’s going even faster,” Kusch told reporters in Berlin yesterday, blaming higher atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning oil and coal.
Thank God the GCM’s are resolving all of that!
Can’t be the Gore effect as he is only due in Australia in July.
(Sorry the link got messed up somehow… no preview at this blog).
When you say “what’s the weather today” you are in effect saying “what is the climate like today”…
The steadily increasing resolution of GCMs is blurring the already fuzzy distinction between weather and climate – David Lindley.