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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59F last night here in the little old South (Arkansas). Stood out on the deck and cooled off. It was cooler OUTSIDE than it was on my modernized, air conditioned home. I’m so thankful the climate isn’t affecting the weather, otherwise I’d be (cue the Wicked Witch of the East) MELTING! MELTING! I’M MELTING! OH, WHAT A WORLD! WHAT A WORLD!
Honestly, I’m sick of correcting people. I’m a native here and people are moving to Arkansas from all over. They start to freak when Summer temps get into the 90’s. I have to pat them on the shoulder and assure them it’s all right. 90 degrees in the “UP” might indeed be worrisome, but down here everything gonna be all right. Forecast high today? 87F. Tonight? 61F. Tomorrow night? 60F. What a world.
Record temperatures Australia 2010:
AUSTRALIA………..C°……F°
Canberra Airport -10 42.2
Brisbane Airport -0.1 40.2
Brisbane City 2.3 43.2
Darwin Airport 10.4 38.9* * 40.4C also recorded in the Post Office Station in October 1892
Adelaide City -0.4 46.1
Adelaide Airport -2.6 44
Sydney Airport -0.1 45.2
Sydney Observatory 2.1 45.3
Perth Airport -1.3 46.7
Perth City -0.7 46.2
Albany City 0.1 44.8
Esperance City -0.6 46.9
Carnarvon 2.4 47.8
Broome 3.3 44.8
Alice Springs Airp.-7.5 45.2* * 47.5C also recorded in the Post Office Station in December 1891
Cairns Airport 6.2* 40.5* * extremes of 6.1C and 43.2C were recorded in the old city station
Melbourne City -2.8 46.4* * 46.8C also recorded in the Airport Station
Hobart City -2.8* 40.8 * -3.9C also recorded in the Airport Station in June 1972
Birdsville -1.7 49.5
Mardie 2.9 50.5
Oodnadatta -2.6 50.7
Charlotte Pass -23 33.5
Norfolk Island AP 6.2 28.4
Kingston (Norfolk) 31.7* * dubious, likely taken with not proper instruments
Cocos Island AP 18.3* 32.8 * an old and unofficial temperature of 17.8C also recorded
Willis Island 16.4 35.2
Christmas Isl. AP 16.2 31.8
Rocky Point (Christmas I.)33.2
Lord Howe Island 5.9 31.3
Heard Island -10.6 21.6
Macquarie Island -9.4 14.4
http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
Ulric Lyons says:
June 30, 2010 at 5:53 am
OMG, all the cold water on the planet is migrating towards the USA!
Come on! That’s racial profiling!
Welcome to the Landscheidt Minimum, expect more to follow for the next 20 years. David Archibald is also of the opinion recently in Melbourne that barycentric forces will see us enter a Dalton like minimum.
The Australian Temperature Record- Part 6: Victoria
Just published by Ken Stewart at:
http://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/the-australian-temperature-record-part-6-victoria/
Some interesting adjustments!
And 500 penguins freeze to death in Africa!
“How many moah must die, mistah speakah!” (My tribute to the late Robert “Exalted Cyclops and Kleagle of the KKK” Byrd).
Since CO2 drives the warming [sarc], we must burn as much coal, oil, gas, and wood right now to boost the level in the atmosphere. Right now! We have only three more months to act until the glacial tipping point is reached. Burn, baby, burn!
tallbloke says:
June 30, 2010 at 5:48 am
If there is a time lag from the time of variation of Sun’s energy output/cloud cover, and the current minimum started in june 2007, are we already in a temperatures’ minimum?
Well, I can tell you where the heat isn’t… California. Although we did just experience two 100 + degree days here in the San Joaquin Valley, this spring and summer have been the mildest I’ve seen since I moved here in 1978.
I’m in Katoomba, NSW, Australia and it’s normally a coolish spot so I’m not going add to the whining about this little cold snap (-3 Celsius at the low before allowing for the 40 km/h winds).
Anyway it’s interesting to see how many other Australians read (and post to) WUWT.
Ref – Expat in France says:
June 30, 2010 at 1:54 am
“I fail to comprehend why, …The powers that be…are still blithely prattling on about low carbon this and that… All the signs and portents for cold are there, but they’re being ignored… 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?… 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””
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You’re NOT alone.
One comment, regarding your question: “Is this the level of madnes that those governing us have descended to?”
I prefer to think of the “those” as our representatives, and I don’t think of them as governing us, merely representing us. We govern us, they represent us. They are no better, worse, smarter, wiser, than we are. When we ask ourselves, “what the @ur momisugly#$#@ur momisugly do those $#$%%$ idiots think they’re doing?” then we’re really saying “what the @ur momisugly#$#@ur momisugly do we $#$%%$ idiots think we’re doing?” We elected them. They represent us. We pay the piper. We’re the ones at fault for all the confusion and insanity we see around us. Nothing’s free, and no one else is at fault.
Maybe you will Roo the day that you went there. Throw a little coal on the barbie.
Got down to 38 here in the far corner of NE Oregon. It’s 8:00 AM and the temp has gone up to 48. At these nighttime temps, there are more than a few garden veggie plants that are stalled out. Toms come to mind.
On the other hand, BUMPER crop of first cutting hay but VERY late for that first cutting. Problem is that we are getting thunder clouds and showers nearly every day so drying that hay is a bit of a problem.
Come on now!
This is Climate Change in action. Just what the CAGW’ers has warned us about
More CO2 gives Climate Change! Boltzmanns law says it must be so.
And it cannot be explained any other way, so it must be man-made.
So there!
Call the Prophet to inmediately adjust those evidently wrong temperatures!
In my opinion, trade winds seem to have a greater influence on SST, which in turn affects jet stream and pressure gradients. Mixed (cooler) or non-mixed (warmer) various ocean currents then have a delayed affect as these SST temps work their way to parts North and South of their equatorial birth. These lagged drivers of temperatures in general affect the temperature gradients that influence trade winds. Is this cyclic, self-perpetuating scenario capable of causing short and long term temperature trends? In my opinion, yes.
That these oceanic cycles have natural internal oscillations that run the gamut from cool, to warm, to neutral is a reasonable thought.
That these phases run the gamut from a season, to years, to decades, to multiple decades is a reasonable thought.
That these phases are unique to particular oceanic oscillations, and therefore potentially in phase, out of phase, and somewhere in-between with other oceanic oscillations, is a reasonable thought.
That these oscillations create waxing and waning energy change (thus creating the energy imbalance needed for continuation of these cycles) is a reasonable thought.
That flora and fauna (including humans) have some influence (but relatively small in comparison to trade winds, oceans, and temperature gradients) on these cycles is a reasonable thought.
That these phases and oscillations correlate amazingly close with temperature, is not only a reasonable thought but a demonstrable one.
Snow in Aussieland, good summary.
Already there this year!
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/mpaine/snow.html#year_month
After a week of very warm and humid air (largely as usual) from the Ohio/New York state areas, we got our (also very usual) blast of COLD northern Canadian air. Last night it was down to 15C with a strong wind and it was COLD. The yo-yo effect will push the temp’s up to at least 30C by weekend with a ridge of high pressure now with us. (This is for Toronto area). By the way that last gasp of hot humid weather dumped 50 mm of rain on our area, causing a lot of flooded basements….
Michael in Sydney says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:17 am
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:)
VILLABOLO SAYS:
Here it comes. Enjoy.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100615_globalstats.html
TomFP
In answer to the first of your two questions at 1.41am I can do no better than repeat a post I made on another thread. To familiarise yourself where the graphics demonstrating where AGW comes from, I suggest you read some of the articles referenced in my web site climatereason.com, particularly Hansen’s 1987 paper where he brought together all the graphs he could find in order to commence his Giss calculations from 1880. Unfortunately he didn’t go back far enough and Giss merely seemed to plug into the end of a 350 year long gently warming trend-not at the start of it.
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This from IPCC FAQ 6.2 Page114 of TAR4.
‘All published reconstructions find that temperatures were warm during medieval times, cooled to low values in the 16th 17th 18th 19th centuries, then warmed rapidly after that.’
The Met office assert;
“Before the twentieth century, when man-made greenhouse gas emissions really took off, there was an underlying stability to global climate. The temperature varied from year to year, or decade to decade, but stayed within a certain range and averaged out to an approximately steady level.”
This statement is somewhat surprising as the Met office are the custodians of the longest dataset in the World -Central England temperatures- dating from 1659 , which is one of the most examined and researched temperature records in the world.
This actual instrumental record- as opposed to more imaginative proxies involving lumps of wood and holes in the ground- do not seem to agree with either the Met office, the IPCC nor Dr Mann’s bold assertions, as the record clearly shows wild fluctuations and a certain amount of cyclical behaviour.
This is CET to 1659 with global emissions of CO2 http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0120a7c87805970b-pi
This is the annual mean CET (Central England Temperature) from 1659 as a straightforward graph.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jdrake/Questioning_Climate/_sgg/m2_1.htm
This the same record by month;
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jdrake/Questioning_Climate/_sgg/m2m1_1.htm
As can be seen, throughout the record the temperatures have been warming-centuries before the input of Co2 by man. The period around 1700-1730 shows a particularly notable upturn in temperatures.
The instrumental record showing this notable variabilty is backed up by high quality contemporary observational records. Anyone browsing the diary of Samuel Pepys for January 1660/61-the year the Royal Society was established- would read;
“It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world before here.”
This mild dry winter was followed the following year by a similarly mild but very wet winter. However there were very sharp and extended periods of frost during three of the next five winters. It is said that skating was introduced into England during the winter of 1662/63 and that King Charles II watched this new activity on the frozen Thames.
Here are some additional linear regressions for some of the oldest data sets in the world-all show the same slight warming trend over centuries and climate variability.
http://i47.tinypic.com/2zgt4ly.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/125rs3m.jpg
CET is backed up by various other records which show the latter stages of the early 18th Century warming, such as this one from Uppsala.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/how-long-is-a-long-temperature-history/
We are fortunate with this particular record- from our friend Arrhenius’s home town- to have the botanical garden records as well. These take us back to around 1695. Around 1710 the custodians start to plant outside some quite exotic plants-together with mulberries.
So the temperature rise can be traced back to at least 1690, and if we look further back, before the English Civil War, we know that the coldest part of this second phase of the LIA occurred in the early part of the 17th Century, so we can actually trace that rise from around 1601, which some say was the coldest year in our history.
It would appear that the Giss records -which start at in 1880- merely ‘plug’ into this well documented, gently warming, centuries long trend as a continuation of it -not the start.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
Some might believe that this all suggests that CO2 appears to be a somewhat weak climate driver that is overwhelmed by natural variability, and that our international institutions appear to have inexplicably forgotten their climate history and not be aware that, far from being ‘unprecedented,’ the apparent cyclical nature of our climate explains the current temperature trends very nicely.
Historic instrumental temperature records can be found here on my web site together with a variety of related articles.
http://climatereason.com/LittleIceAgeThermometers/
Tonyb
Jul 14: The Guardian is organizing a debate on climate change in London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/30/guardian-debate-climate-science-emails
George Monbiot for the treehuggers, Doug Keenan for the sceptics.
The Guardian still calls the emails ‘hacked’ in order to try to cast criminal aspertions against the sceptics
We’ll see if they can organize a fair debate
Or if the troops of enlightenment can storm the prison of reason this Bastille Day
More cold weather news on the other side of the continent.
Perth has just had its coldest May since 1995, and the wettest May in five years, according to weatherzone.com.au.
Also, Perth has just shivered through its coldest June in 15 years, according to weatherzone.com.au. Unfortunately not much rain to go with it.
Where is that David Jones of the BOM to tell us we are cooking to death? I think he must be hibernating in his Canberra cave during the winter months. Come to think of it, Penny Wong is also hardly heard from these days. Maybe she’s on her winter holidays in the Maldives checking out the sea levels.
Public service announcement:
It may feel cool in Australia right now in many places, dont worry this is only a psychological mass delusion brought on by listening to denialist misinformation, it has been found by 99.9% of the worlds scientists who all agree with each other about everything that denialists are having a psychosomatic hypnotic effect on the general population wherever they spread their misinformation and doubt.
Please do not believe your eyes, they are lying to you. Temperatures in Australia are near record highs and are set to get higher and dangerous climate change brought on by human pollution of the atmosphere is to blame.
At this very moment Penny Wong and her team are quickly recalibrating every Australian temperature measurement device as quickly as they are able to better represent the consensus so please be patient and above all do not listen to any denialist, we suggest digging a hole and then placing your head in said hole untill the denialist has gone.
Remember the government motto, if in doubt pay more taxes and as you will experience ever more doubt then taxes will rise to combat this heinous effect brought on by doubting denialists and remember above all else, the government is here to help you all even if you do not need it,especially if you do not need it.
C’mon you Ozzies. I thought you were tougher than this. The next ice age is just around the corner and then you will be able to moan about the weather just like poms. Just don’t build any damn windmills. You will need nuclear reactors and lots of them.
As we say up here, sure it is cold, but its a dry cold.
Hiking through snow on June 24, 2010:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olddognewtrick/4734012431/
Henry@ur momisuglyDOUGLAS TODD Old Man & Stephen
I do believe that we are entering a global cooling period
However, somehow I am thinking that we wont have an ice age
simply because to fall into an ice age you need snow covering of most of the earth
(that would send the sunlight back to space instead of being absorbed as heat by earth)
somehow, I am thinking that people wont stand by as the snow piles up around them. I think someone will figure out a plan to get rid of the snow?
Hemnry@ur momisugly Stephen
So what is your proposed mechanism, i.e. what makes the major cloud covers to move towards the equator rather than to the poles?