NO WONDER it was difficult getting out of bed this morning. If you’re desperate for days to get warmer, we have some good news.
Benedict Brook@BenedictBrook
From: news.com.au
July 3, 20173:54pm
Temperatures plummeted across Australia’s south east on the weekend.
WAS it difficult getting out from under the doona this weekend? Did you shiver on the way to work this morning? Well spare a thought for the people of Deniliquin.
The mercury in the NSW town, close to the Murray River, sank to -5.6C early on Sunday morning — that’s the coldest it’s been for 110 years.
It was even more icy further north as winter records were broken across NSW and Victoria — some towns recorded their coldest morning ever.
It’s so freezing, the NSW Fire and Rescue Service has been forced to warn people not to fire up barbecues indoors.
Justin Bieber Delights Cheeky Aussie While Running in Sydney. Credit – Instagram/Mathew Wise via Storyful
Frost was widespread over much of Victoria and eastern NSW on Monday morning. Picture: Sky News Weather.Source:Supplied
But, on the bright side, snow starved ski resorts can look forward to the first dumps for a while.
“Yes, it’s still cold. The average minimum in Canberra is 0C in July so -7C is well below average,” Sky News Weather meteorologist Tom Saunders told news.com.au on Monday.
There should be a slight respite this week with temperatures heading back towards the winter average.
But a front powering its way towards South Australia could see gale force winds with a severe weather warning issued for parts of the state.
A lingering high pressure system has brought clear skies to much of the country’s south east. While that has seen pleasant days, the lack of cloud cover has seen all that daytime heat escape leading to bitterly cold nights.
Early on Saturday morning, the nation’s capital fell to -8.7C, the coldest in 46 years. Three consecutive nights below -7C was also a first for 46 years.
Goulburn fell to -10C on Sunday, it’s coldest start to the day in 17 years. It was only a little better first thing on Monday morning plunging to -9.4C.
Parts of Sydney’s west got down to almost -2C on Monday morning, while the CBD’s 5.4C start to Sunday was the coldest night for two years.
Melbourne’s CBD got even lower on Sunday, just creeping above freezing to 0.8C.
Elsewhere in Victoria, the Latrobe Valley was -4.8C, the coldest for three decades. Sale’s low of -6.6C on Monday was its coldest ever recorded temperature.
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Belated HT to lewispbuckingham, I didn’t realize he was my source originally.
So canberra got down to -8’C that is 2’C than the record. See the planet is warming.
Melbourne’s metropolitan June average overnight low was nearly 2c below the long-term average (1.8c). That is massive!! (I personally discount the city record due to UHI). Not one mention in the mainstream media of course. If it was the other way around, it certainly would’ve got a mention especially from the hysterics at the ABC and Fairfax Media.
“Melbourne’s metropolitan June average overnight low was nearly 2c below the long-term average (1.8c).”
Quite untrue. The average min for June 2017 was 6.8C and max 14.9C.
Data here. The long term average for June , here, is 6.9C and max 14.1.
So the night’s were on average 0.1C lower than the mean, and the days were 0.6C higher than the mean. Does mean warming or cooling?
AGW “theory” (and I use the term in its loosest possible sense in that context) predicts that warming will be most noticeable as an increase in night-time averages. So in answer to your query, it would mean cooling.
Did I read this right the report stated that “snow starved ski resorts can look forward for the first dumps for a while” But historically they are known as the Snowy Mountains
With all that cold water around Oz, I was wondering why we weren’t hearing about cold. I thought the ARC ANGELS of Excellence in Climateering must have got stuck in the ice of G warmimg again and were holding off sounding the alarm. Record cold huh, that’s gotta hurt.
Since the words the snow cover in Australia’s alpine region has dropped by 40%, ref Australian Daily Mail 20th July 2015
plenty cold enough just no precipitation
Well they arent coming in the summer months, winter is the only time you would want to visit
http://members.pcug.org.au/~terryg/Snowdepth%202016.pdf
“Given that the 2016 season coincided with one of the wettest winter’s in Southern Australia it is surprising that the amount of snow did not reach the levels experienced in seasons such as 1981. The 3 metre level was last reached in 1992, before that in 1981, 1969, 1964, and 1956. But has not reached that level in 24 years to 2016. Interestingly , the highest snow depth for 2016 occured in early October, this is usually recorded in August”
I’ve got this new hypothesis I’m working on that explains the change in climate-
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/companies/weve-raised-generation-hopeless-millennials-who-lack-basic-life-and-workplace-skills-and-its-a-big-issue/news-story/f3256c05c19c356002103eb50e50cee1
But I see I’m not alone in exploring this fruitful avenue of research-
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/the-frightening-rise-of-the-regressive-left/news-story/e923498df3bfd198b6f3b4aa10db17f7
and the race is on to feed all the proxies into the supercomputer.
And what’s minus 0.4 degrees C between friends?
http://joannenova.com.au/2017/07/on-sunday-goulburn-got-colder-than-the-bom-thought-was-scientificially-possible-and-a-raw-data-record-was-adjusted/
Jennifer Marohasy just pointed out the the Australian BOM erased the record low temperature of -10.4 C
http://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/07/bureau-erases-goulburn-record-minimum-temperature-set-sunday-2-july-2017/
Ah those tricksters at the BOM, Thank goodness for Jennifer M,
No Xmas card this year Jennifer!!!
Here’s a website I just ran across:
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/number-hot-days-cities-summer.php
I live in Memphis. It says that between 1981 and 2010 Memphis averaged 54 days over 90F degrees per summer. And actually the historical average is 69 days according to Accuweather.
We have had 2 days over 90 this summer. Two. According to the Accuweather historical record, 13 days over 90F would be normal for this date.
The forecast is that the next two will be under 90F so we will be 15 behind normal. Only nine days out of 31 are forecast to be 90F for or above for July when the historic record has an average of 90 or better every day.
When exactly does weather become climate? 1981 to 2010 was already showing fewer days over 90F than the historic record does.
The website says 21 days of 90F or higher is the average for July
Goulburn was actually colder than -10C …..as JoNova explains, the BOM fudged the temp record initially …..
“The BOM got caught this week auto-adjusting cold extremes to be less cold. Lance Pidgeon of the unofficial BOM audit team noticed that the thermometer at Goulburn airport recorded – 10.4°C at 6.17am on Sunday morning, but the official BOM climate records said it was -10.0°C. (What’s the point of that decimal place?) Either way this was a new record for Goulburn in July. (The previous coldest ever July morning was -9.1°C. The oldest day in Goulburn was in August 1994 when it reached -10.9°C).
Apparently this was an automated event where the thermometer recorded something beyond a set limit, and the value put into the official database was the artificial limit. Since colder temperatures have already been recorded in Goulburn, who thought it was a good idea to trim all future minus-ten-point-somethings as if they were automatically “spurious”?
Yesterday, the BOM have acknowledged the error and at first deleted the -10.0 figure, replacing it with a blank space. Then today, after Jennifer Marohasy’s post, they’ve corrected it.”