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).
more at ABC Radio
CodeTech says:
June 30, 2010 at 1:23 am
I’m not buying it.
They’re saying the clear skies overnight are the cause for losing daytime heating. But… we all know that clouds, being merely water, can’t possibly hold in heat. Not only that, but we also all know that CO2 is a much more effective blanket, holding in heat.
So, ignore the thermometer (climatologists do, and what’s good for them is good for me) and realize that this is actually a sign of a nearing tipping point of hyper-global heating.
I hope that was sarcasm …
You say CO2 ‘holds in heat’?
Well then, if such is supposed to be the case, then explain why all the Arctic and Antarctic ice which has trapped CO2 within its matrix isn’t melting in vast rivers of water?
And do tell how –with all that ground-level CO2– that there’s any such thing as frost forming on the ground?
“Anyone browsing the diary of Samuel Pepys for January 1660/61-the year the Royal Society was established- would read….”
For those seeking such a worthwhile divertissement, this is where to find Pepys diaries
http://www.pepys.info/fire.html#anchor600522
Far more interesting than the current witterings of the trolls!
Henry@Stephen Fisher
sorry, I see that you did try to propose a mechanism, it is just that I do not understand how you think it works,
i.e. what causes the movement of the clouds towards the equator and what causes the movement of the major jets more towards the poles. You say it is pressure difference caused by temp. difference?
But then we are back to where we were or where we came from: the energy from the sun is constant, no matter what.
Pleasant 36C in California
The ETS has started here lots of people on talk back raido 99% think its a rotten tax.
The price of c02 has been set at $25 a ton. Some power prices have gone up 12% which means that we could pay some were between 0.24c-0.30c per kwh + GST.
its A SAD DAY IN NEW ZEALAND FOR THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON.
Mark.R says:
June 30, 2010 at 11:22 am
The ETS has started here lots of people on talk back raido 99% think its a rotten tax.
The price of c02 has been set at $25 a ton. Some power prices have gone up 12% which means that we could pay some were between 0.24c-0.30c per kwh + GST.
its A SAD DAY IN NEW ZEALAND FOR THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON.
Old saying: When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Not knowing precisely how your government operates down under, allow me this: Short of not actually repealing that machination (ETS), you should have your government tax the power companies at the same rate as your increase, and then have those increases rebated back to you, either directly or through tax breaks.
If the power companies are going to play stupid games in order to make money hand-over-fist, then you tax the bejesus out of them to the tune of their rate increases.
Sooner or later –probably sooner– they’ll wake up and quit playing the carbon-come con game.
tallbloke says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:19 am
But it can’t be anything to do with the sun being quiet… nononononononono
Cold winters 2008-9 2009-10
[–ETC., ETC.–]
VILLABOLO SAYS:
Our Sun has been cool for the past few decades.
Also the decrease in sunspot activity started before 2008.
And why are you emphasizing Winters and ignoring Summers? You know, like ignoring several hundred deaths in Australia when it had temperatures of 115F in Melbourne as well as record temperatures of 122F in South Africa. I guess those sunspots reappear during the Summer.
They must really be out in force right now but only over Africa and recently India and Pakistan.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100615_globalstats.html
Cherries, cherries, I love cherries!
Enneagram says:
June 30, 2010 at 7:15 am
This flunks so many sniff tests I went to http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm to figure out what happened.
You copied the header from the recent records section, but the data from the all-time Min & Max section., and added the (°C), Max(°F) headers yourself.
The columns above appear to be really location, all-time Min(°C), all-time Max(°C)
-10°C is obviously not 42.2°F, nor is it a sensible diurnal change.
If you were trying to list recent records, you better find a different web page. The “recent” records listed there are for all of 2010. It has no records for the last few days.
Temperatures´records at the other side of the pond:
CHILE
Santiago -6.8 37.5
Valparaiso -3.8 37.7
Arica 1 33.6
Puerto Montt -7.1 34.7
Temuco -8.1 39
Los Angeles -5.7 41.6
Punta Arenas -16.4 30
Balmaceda -28.3 33.4
Ollague -37
Coyhaique Alto -37
Puesto Viejo -40* * unofficial
Evangelista Island -8 23
Robinson Crusoe Isl. 3 28
Mataveri(Easter Isl.)7.2 31.1
PERU
Lima Airport 8.7 33.9
Iquitos 11 39
Cuzco -9 30
Arequipa -4 30
Tacna 0 33.5
Pucallpa 8 40
Neshuya 41.1
Mazo Cruz -25.2* * unofficial temperature of -27.7C also recorded
Chuapalca -28.2* *
Good heavy frost in South Island New Zealand this morning. A bit of drizzle yesterday means ice on the driveway. Not particularly unusual for winter during la Nina – cold and wet combined for weeks on end, but unpleasant. Even the recent immigrants from the UK are complaining about the weather!
Ski fields have opened a bit earlier than usual – if you’re keen on skiing. Apparently very good cover.
Henry Pool says:
June 30, 2010 at 10:51 am
Henry@Stephen Fisher
….But then we are back to where we were or where we came from: the energy from the sun is constant, no matter what.
That’s a TRICK, since TSI is TOTAL, all wavelengths.
This is interesting:
http://www.xearththeory.com/introdis_earth_electromagnetic_coil_transformers_step_up_down.html
This one too:
http://www.xearththeory.com/introdis_earth_electromagnetic_coil_transformers_step_up_down.html
And, last but not least:
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=ah63dzac
Richard_the_I says:
June 30, 2010 at 5:47 am
Always remember, and never forget:
Every temperature anomaly that is ever-s0-slightly above average is proof of global warming;
Whilst every weather event that is a record-setting, below normal temperature is normal fluctuation and has nothing whatsoever to do with climate.
VILLABOLO SAYS:
GLOBAL Warming is just that, Global. The statistical average of the whole GLOBE. Yet I understand how some do not want to acknowledge the veracity of satellite data. So we’re not supposed to believe that this January through May of 2010 was the warmest overall. Nope. It’s all a conspiracy.
villabolo says:
June 30, 2010 at 11:48 am
VILLABOLO SAYS:
Our Sun has been cool for the past few decades.
Also the decrease in sunspot activity started before 2008.
And why are you emphasizing Winters and ignoring Summers? You know, like ignoring several hundred deaths in Australia when it had temperatures of 115F in Melbourne as well as record temperatures of 122F in South Africa. I guess those sunspots reappear during the Summer.
They must really be out in force right now but only over Africa and recently India and Pakistan.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100615_globalstats.html
Cherries, cherries, I love cherries!
Since you’re so inclined to talk about warm weather, and disinclined to discuss cold weather, then in light of there being said cold weather, you’ll please explain how it would be quite cold in one place yet very warm in another?
It wouldn’t have anything to do with weather station siting, would it?
No, of course not. Not in your perfect world of propagandizing AGW …
Henry chance says:
June 30, 2010 at 6:34 am
Hide the decline. Joe Romm is scouring the lesser 48 and finding a record high temp or two. They were dead silent during the winter when thousands of cattle froze to death in Mongolia.
VILLABOLO RESPONDS:
No, they weren’t dead silent. There was no need to specify Mongolia when AGW were emphasizing the entire colder than usual region which was only a small fraction of the entire Earth.
First, Mongolia is a cold desert. Second, the colder than average temperatures during the Winter of 2009/2010 affected up to 15% of the Earth’s surface area. The other 85% was in the typical range for Global Warming.
The entire Southern Hemisphere was sizzling with 122F in South Africa, heat waves in Brazil and Australia.
The Arctic Sea was 10F warmer than normal.
CHERRIES, CHERRIES, CHERRIES, CHERRIES!
Don’t fail to see the forest for the trees.
Enneagram says:
June 30, 2010 at 7:15 am
Record temperatures Australia 2010:
AUSTRALIA………..C°……F°
Canberra Airport -10 42.2
Brisbane Airport -0.1 40.2
Brisbane City 2.3 43.2 etc.
I don’t remember the formulae for converting between C and F but I think Hansen has been involved in converting to the F temps above. As I remember 32degrees is freezing for Farenheit. How can -10C convert to 42.2F?
“GLOBAL Warming is just that, Global. The statistical average of the whole GLOBE. Yet I understand how some do not want to acknowledge the veracity of satellite data. So we’re not supposed to believe that this January through May of 2010 was the warmest overall. Nope. It’s all a conspiracy.”
I have no problem with the satellite soundings. But the soundings go back to only 1979. Big deal. I never get excited about the “coldest Sept or the Warmest Feb since…” because true climate science looks at time periods much long than 30 years. If one wants to be truthfull, it one should look at periods that go back 200-400 years. And if one looks close enough, one could see periods where there was enough climate variation (in both temp and precip) to warrant a closer look. Goiing back 1000 years, this period of abrubt climate variation occured during the Little Ice Age (for the mid-lattitudes), and the MWP for the subtropics and tropics. Much of this climate variation caused untold humand suffering (devastating droughts in the sub-tropics during the MWP, and famines in the mid-lattitudes during the LIA).
So when an Alarmists posts that 2010 was warmest year ever, what they really mean is that 2010 was the warmest year since 1979. And even then, there are many caveats.
It’s interesting how much steam has run out of the Alarmist’s narrative. They are essientially relegated to chasing monthly Artic ice anomalies. Even Dr Mann is giving the game up (for now, anyway). In 20 years, AGC (Anthropogenic Global Cooling) will be all the rage. And the nonsense goes on….
Rhoda R says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Just copied from the linked source
http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
Conversion formula:
C°= F°-32/180
VILLABOLO SAYS:
GLOBAL Warming is just that, Global. The statistical average of the whole GLOBE. Yet I understand how some do not want to acknowledge the veracity of satellite data. So we’re not supposed to believe that this January through May of 2010 was the warmest overall. Nope. It’s all a conspiracy.
So a simple answer to this question would be nice:
When was the last time you (VILLABOLO) wrote and complained to the press that local weather is not Global Warming? Seeing as though you are so serial about all of this you should be shouting it from the roof tops everytime they get the facts wrong.
Or should I google your name and see how many times you complained to the press?
Or posted your bigotted comments on certain websites?
You never did complain did you? Because it suits your AGENDA.
Troll away, you will win no converts here.
Reply: Stop the food fight please. ~ ctm
Rhoda R says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:33 pm
You are right: First column is Min. and second column is Max.
villabolo says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:32 pm
“[…]
There was no need to specify Mongolia when AGW were emphasizing the entire colder than usual region which was only a small fraction of the entire Earth.[…]”
What do you mean with “AGW were emphasizing the entire colder than usual region”? Do you mean that Mongolia only appeared so cold because it was so hot everywhere else?
“”” Gerard says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:53 am
Kyneton (500m Elevation) in Central Victoria is usually cold in winter but Monday was exceptionally cold starting out at -4.5 and with a max of 7.1, yesterday was even colder with a max of 5.1 brrr with strong northerly winds most unusual as the cold winds generally come from the south. I say thank God for global warming otherwise it would be really cold! “””
You’ve got places in Victoria that have 500 metres elevation ! ?
Wow; you blokes are just about in outer space !
I thought the reason it never rains in Australia, was because it is so bloody low, that the clouds jut blow right on across, and never hit anything that pushes them high enough to precipitate.
But you are on the crusty side of the pizza anyway; along with my Kiwi Mates; so it isn’t supposed to get cold down there.
My big Sister lives in Glen Waverley; so she probably has to wrap the pipes at night to stop them freezing up.
Rotorua, New Zealand, we have a heavy frost this morning (with beautiful clear blue skies). Further south it is even colder.
What better way to celebrate the first day of NZ’s very own ETS!
It is interesting to note that, of the 4 winters I have experienced in Rotorua, the locals have claimed with 3 of them that they were the coldest for years. The winter before last we had snow fall once, which they said was the first time in about 20 years. Last winter it snowed 3 times. This winter is shaping up like the last two.
Geoff Sharp says:
June 30, 2010 at 7:24 am
“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.”
As long as it stays in South Australia and does not reach North Australia, that`s that`s the Melbourne minimum for you.
J.Hansford says:
June 30, 2010 at 4:30 am
“Bluddy freezing up here in Tropical Nth Qld too!….. 28C durin’ th’ day and a freezing 16C at night…. If it keeps this up I’ll probably have to put a shirt on….. ;-)”
read; June 30, 2010 at 3:50 am
villabolo says:
June 30, 2010 at 12:14 pm
VILLABOLO SAYS:
GLOBAL Warming is just that, Global. The statistical average of the whole GLOBE. Yet I understand how some do not want to acknowledge the veracity of satellite data. So we’re not supposed to believe that this January through May of 2010 was the warmest overall. Nope. It’s all a conspiracy.
You’ve been called out before on this matter, but continue to bloviate.
What about all of those poorly sited weather stations which produce false high temperature data?
What goes on now in the S. Hemisphere is what will most likely happen in the N. Hemisphere come December.
The Literary record says this is what will happen, during times of sleepy Solar Cycles, and it’s happening.