Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog
July 10, 2020 By jennifer
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia – Bourke’s 125°F (51.7°C) on the 3rd January 1909. This record* was deleted, falsely claiming that this was likely some sort of ‘observational error’, as no other official weather stations recorded high temperatures on that day.
However, Craig Kelly MP has visited the Australian National Archive at Chester Hill in western Sydney to view very old meteorological observation books. It has taken Mr Kelly MP some months to track down this historical evidence. Through access to the archived book for the weather station at Brewarrina, which is the nearest official weather station to Bourke, it can now be confirmed that a temperature of 50.6°C (123°F) was recorded at Brewarrina for Sunday 3rd January 1909. This totally contradicts claims from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology that only Bourke recorded an extraordinarily hot temperature on that day.
Just today, Friday 10th July 2020, Mr Kelly MP obtained access to this record for Brewarrina, the closest official weather station to the official weather station at Bourke.
He has photographed the relevant page from the observations book, and it shows 123°F was recorded at 9am on the morning of Monday 4th January 1909 – published here for the first time. This was the highest temperature in the previous 24 hours and corroborates what must now be recognised as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia of 51.7°C (125°F) degrees at Bourke on the afternoon of Sunday 3rd January 1909.
That the Bureau of Meteorology denies these record hot days is a travesty. Is it because these records contradict their belief in catastrophic human-caused global warming?
The temperature of 50.6°C (123°F) recorded back in 1909 which is more than 100 years ago, photographed by Mr Kelly today at the National Archives in Chester Hill, is almost equivalent to the current official hottest day ever for Australia of 50.7 degrees Celsius at Oodnadatta on 2nd January 1960. These are in fact only the fourth and third hottest days recorded in Australia, respectively.
Not only has Mr Kelly MP tracked-down the meteorological observations book for Brewarrina, but over the last week he has also uncovered that 51.1°C (124°F) was recorded at White Cliffs for Wednesday 11th January 1939. This is the second hottest ever!
The evidence, a photograph from the relevant page of the White Cliff’s meteorological observations book, is published here for the first time.
Until the efforts of Mr Kelly MP, this second hottest-ever record was hidden in undigitised archives.
It is only through the persistence of Mr Kelly to know the temperatures at all the official weather stations in the vicinity of Bourke that this and other hot days have been discovered.
If we are to be honest to our history, then the record hot day at Bourke of 51.7°C (125°F) must be re-instated, and further the very hot 50.6°C (123°F) recorded for Brewarrina on the same day must be entered into the official databases.
Also, the temperature of 51.1°C (124°F) recorded at White Cliffs on 12th January 1939 must be recognised as the second hottest ever.
For these temperatures to be denied by the Bureau because they occurred in the past, before catastrophic human-caused global warming is thought to have come into effect, is absurd.
At a time in world history when Australians are raising concerns about the Chinese communist party removing books from Libraries in Hong Kong, we should be equally concerned with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology removing temperature records from our history.
If global warming is indeed the greatest moral issue of our time, then every Australian regardless of their politics and their opinion on greenhouse gases and renewable energies, must be honest to history and these truths.
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* This temperature (125°F/51.7°C on the 3rd January 1909) was recorded at an official Bureau weather station and using a mercury thermometer in a Stevenson screen. Hotter temperatures were recorded in 1896 but the mercury thermometers were not in Stevenson screens, which is considered the standard for housing recording equipment.
The feature image shows Craig Kelly MP at The Australian National Archive, Chester Hill, just today examining the Brewarrina Meteorological Observations book.
I have previously blogged on the record hot day at Bourke being deleted by the Bureau here:
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/02/australias-hottest-day-record-ever-deleted/
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I am trying to understand whether the BOM is just incompetent or engaging in malfeasance, either way they have been captured by the green, socialist, warmest movement and therefore nothing the BOM says can be regarded as correct.
The BOM is a Govn’t agency and thus paid to produce “results”.
What’s so disturbing about this is those that cite historical records are considered skeptics. In the USA the NOAA records are so compromised as to being useless but they are still a touch stone for temperature records….. not much different in the rest of the world apparenty. Truth always wins in the end.
In some cases I shy away from acusing someone one of neferious actions. In this case I wound put it to, “The computer says…” syndrome. Many believe that their computer, or computers in general, can’t possibly be wrong. So they blindly repeat what’s on the electronical suthsayer that’s in front of them. It never crosses their minds that “people” are responsible for what shows up on their screen. Never crosses their mind that people are fallible.
Nick Stokes, is the article in this thread factual? If it is, STFU. If it is not, then provide the reason why, or STFU!
You think the BoM are warmist charlatans?
The Canadian equivalent agency trashed all their temps records prior to the 1950s.
Man, it’s gotten hotter since then!
Mann: It’s got hotter since then!
This is the same BOM who refuse to state how they manipulate the temperature record saying’it is too complicated and requires professional judgement’!!!!
Nick?
It should be a criminal offence to delete government-funded data. Simple as that.
I think it is, just about everywhere. I don’t know why some public interest group hasn’t sued to get Mann’s data, it was government funded.
OMG, we are all going to fry! What was that – 1909, oh!
Hottest ever? How’d they rule out the first 4 billion years?
Simply aBOMinable!
In Marble Bar, West Australia, there was a plaque in 1988 claiming the record for the hottest temperature on earth at C 54. Still true? Was it ever?
Thanks everyone for taking the time to read and comment! The 125F needs to be reinstated!
Somewhere in the above thread there is mention of this very hot day at Bourke being a one-off, while the actual trend at Bourke is one of increasing temperatures … but that is NOT the case. Only the homogenised data shows temperatures getting hotter at Bourke. For much of inland Australia there was cooling through much of last century to at least 1960, at some locations longer because of improvements in land management and more trees and irrigation.
If you scroll down to the table with the Bourke data from the next link, you will see how the Bureau adjusts down the earlier temperatures for Bourke, in the creation of the official record. They cool the past, artificially through the application of algorithm.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2020/01/after-the-tragic-wildfires-history-is-rewritten-or-forgotten/
If you consider just the actual maximum temperatures as measured at Bourke, and also Bathurst that also has a very long record, you can see that through much of last century the situation was one of cooling: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/09/absolutely-politically-incorrect-maximum-temperatures-at-bourke-and-bathurst/
The Bourke record ends in 1996, because that is when the weather station was moved.