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 (05:25:37) : I clearly remember the hot records that were broken in Australia…”
That was weather. It wasn’t climate.
It also was from UHI.
What people are missing about this snow in Australia is that Australia has also moved 7 centimetres north east towards the equator since the same time last year. It should therefore be slightly warmer! Worrying.
“Leon Brozyna (05:58:25) : Leave it those folks down under — always having to do things in a big way. Wonder how many winter weather records they’ll smash this winter season.”
If they want to pass what happened in the US this past winter they’ve got their work cut out for them! Some cold records were broken by 6 F degrees. And it happened on more than one occasion. There were many cold records and snow fall records broken.
And what about the record in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where the cold record was broken by 12 C (not F) degrees about 6 weeks ago?
ref :
http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=edmonton
Anthony,
Has there been confirmation on that record in Edmonton yet?
Gene
If I was Ozy, I would start believing in the global worming….
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Crud.
Now I gotta worry about Vukevic’s antarcticats AND his global worming…… At the same time even.
But, but it’s a good thing that Australia isn’t connected to our electric grid – Iffen they were, all their AC power would going backwards half the time and the wrong direction the other half of the time pushing all their electrons backwards – and their darkbulbs would be emitting large amounts of negative heavy making it very hard to see after the sun rises.
From 2000 to 2007 I typically used just under 1 metric ton of firewood over winter for my heating. In 2008 I used 2.5 tons of firewood and switched to electrical in early September. Usually I start using the fireplace around mid May and finish early October. This year I started using the fireplace in mid April and I expect to use at least 3 tons if the cool weather continues. Just a personal account of the cold winters since 2008.
I can tell you It’s cold in Melbourne this morning. I wonder how cold it would have been without UHI
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/melbourne-records-coldest-april-morning-since-1957/11797
Know our cold is nothing like that in other countries but for us its unusual. Our frosts are 1 month early, Victoria also recorded all time low record at Mt Hotham of -8 c
Snow resort to open earliest in history
http://www.theage.com.au/national/buller-to-open-for-skiing-after-cold-snap-snowfall-20090429-anh8.html
Melbourne coldest morning since 1957
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/melbourne-records-coldest-april-morning-since-1957/11797
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/melbournes-coldest-april-morning-in-half-a-century/11796
Forecast for next 7 days – COLD
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV10450.shtml
Antarctic freezing;”We have experienced quite severe ice conditions over the past decade. I have seen nothing in this region to suggest global warming is having an effect.” http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25347937-11949,00.html
NZ early snow; (dont forget Mt Ruapehu smashed its snow record last year at 5m deep)
http://www.snow.co.nz/media/media_newsletters.asp?newsletterId=7295
Seems like were following the northern hemispheres lead. How cold does it need to get before we say peoples lives are being put in danger?
An important step in the dismantling of the AGW doctrine in Australia.
http://heliogenic.blogspot.com/2009/04/aussie-farmers-ask-for-climate-debate.html
The temperatures flanagan referred to were in Melbourne Metro areas on days of high winds when the city was in the path of massive bushfires, the ones that klled over 100 people.
Heat sink + bushfires + a city with record population = record temperature. Anyone suprised?
The Snowy Mountains resorts though are subject to strict population and building limitations to maintain the pristine and fragile Australian alpine environment. The continuity of the temperature record there is more reliable.
It is clear that the current weather in Australia is not climate but the cold without any doubt will help the Cap &Trade Opposition:
http://heliogenic.blogspot.com/2009/04/truss-put-down-and-bury-rudds-rabid-dog.html
Is the photo on this web site of Charlotte Pass taken on the 29th April 2009?
Reply: According to the wikipedia article from which the photo is linked, it was taken on 2008-07-30 15:24:19. ~ charles the moderator
Nick Yates (16:28:05) : …since 1957. It´s no coincidence. Look above post (11:50:44) :..1956
When PDO was going down as nowadays.
Isn’t weather the instantiation of climate?
I.e Climate is an abstraction, weather is what you actually get.
I think that the term “Climate” has become hopelessly ill-defined, to the point of being worthless.
Actually – could someone please provide a,
[1] Grounded,
[2] Measurable, and
[3] Accessible to human experience.
definition of the Distinction between Climate and Weather.
Climate is what you expect.
Weather is what you get.
Current picture of some of the Thredbo runs (updated every 10 mins). Thredbo is about 7-8km east of Charlotte Pass.
http://ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/nsw/thredbo/thredbo6.html
Well I was there in Melbin, Christmas of 2006 when they had those horrible bush fires and droughts there too. My sis and her families, were installing rain water tanks to try and ease the shortage in case it ever should rain. The drought broke and it rained the day we headed back to Auckland; and the tank arrangements worked just fine.
Those Aussies are a tough bunch of cookies; even though they do exaggerate a lot; a heap in fact; hope you blokes turned out for ANZAC Day there Mates; we ain’t ever going to forget.
George
Man I hate to do this: “”” Climate (from Ancient Greek klima, meaning inclination) is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period of time.[2] The standard averaging period is 30 years, “””
Lifted straight out of Wickedpedia.
Of course and not surprisingly considering the source, that is pure BS.
Whathappens tomorrow does not depend on what happens on average; it depends on the sum toital of all of the things that have happened so far.
So a more accurate definition of Climate would be that “Climate is the long term integral of weather”.
And even that isn’t much good because clearly climate (and weather) are local phenomena. Climate varies form region to region, and there is no expectation of it ever averaging out to the same thing everywhere.
George
My web issued snow forecasts for Australia this winter season
are forecasting above average snow falls in the main.
http://www.holtonweather.com/article3.htm
jeez –
Actually, given the WUWT experience, and Gore’s “the debate is over”, I propose a corollary to that saying:
Climate is what you discuss
Snark is what you get
jeez (17:08:14) :
Climate is what you expect.
Weather is what you get.
So Computer Models, model the expected Climate?
That follows, doesn’t it?!
Here’s an assertion. Climate is an intangible illusion. Weather is the real, experiential, tangible reality.
Can anyone prove to me that Climate is NOT and intangible illusion?
if my assertion is correct, then it implies that the Climate Scientists are studying a non-such.
Employ more meterologists.
When one surfs in the GHG ocean, occasionally the snarks bite.
My last web 2009 snow forecasts for Australia are showing, in the main, Above Average snowfalls, especially for the Aust Alps areas.
http://www.holtonweather.com/article3.htm
Good point Graeme Rodaughan. We ae arrogant as a society too. We like to think we have the power to wreck and restore the planet. Probably though, Solar and Geological processes account for nearly everything.
(a) The Australian Continent is roughly the same size as the lower 48.
(b) A great proportion of the continent is above the Tropic of Capricorn.
(c) The highest mountains in Australia are mere hills in the rest of the world.
(d) There are huge amounts of cross ski able areas during the winter months.
(d) The only heat record broken in the February heat wave was three days in a row of a above 110 degrees F.
(e) The same area that experienced this 3 day record had a cold summer. The warmer part of summer only lasted for around 3 weeks.
(f) To Adolfo and Vukcevic. The Australian continent is moving towards the Northeast at a rate of 7cm per year. That’s 7 metres in 100 years. The South Magnetic pole will need to speed up to catch Australia. Australia is North, North east and Northwest of Antarctica. Antarctica rates as a continent and is one and half times larger than the continental US and the Australian continent.
(g) A recent paper established that Australia’s weather patterns were related to the Indian Ocean Dipole effect.
(h) The recent bushfires in the South east of Australia were the worst on record for property loss and loss of life. They were nowhere near the worst for actual land area damage.