Coldest April night record broken twice in Hughenden and Maryborough in Queensland – various cold night records scattered across Australia through May too

The Courier Mail reported 22nd April – Several Queensland towns hit record low April temperatures.
Hughenden Airport broke the coldest night record including the Post Office – on the 22nd April – and then broke that again on the 27th.
Maryborough saw the same pattern with 6.2°C on 22nd and 5.5 on the 27th both breaking the previous record from 1966. Clermont Airport broke the Post Office record with 4.3 on the 27th – the Post office saw 4.6 in April 1999.
On April 30th Kulgera in southern NT had a record April low of 1.5.
Alice Springs on 1st May hit 1.6 making it the coldest 1st of May since 1881 or whenever the Post Office commenced.
On the 14th Eyre in WA hit -2.5 a record low.
The Courier Mail reports on the 14th – Brisbane wakes up to chilly morning as southerly change pushes dry air and cold winds
On the 15th Tamworth AP read -4.5 a record low.
On the 16th Broome AP read 7.7 an equal record low.
On the 16th West Roebuck (near Broome) read 5 smashing the previous record of 7.
On the 16th Marble Bar read 7.5 smashing the previous record of 9.4.
On the 25th Newman AP daily max 14.7 smashing the previous record of 16.
Imagine the BoM media releases if the above were all warm April & May records.
If anybody knows of other records – comment or email them – thanks.

9 thoughts on “Coldest April night record broken twice in Hughenden and Maryborough in Queensland – various cold night records scattered across Australia through May too”

  1. No record lows in Perth, although the last 11 days have been below average lows.

    What is interesting is that because of the size of the synoptic high pressure systems, cold weather in the east almost always means warm weather in the west.

    To have the east and west coasts cold for a period at the same time is very unusual.

  2. 300km south of Perth in Manjimup, most of the month has been below average. Yesterdays minimum anomaly -6. I think this mornings anomaly is going to be about -4.

  3. Add Norseman Aero 012009 to the list, -1.8 = coldest night on the 31st – tied with May 2007 – data only from 1999.
    Just heard on TV Western Sydney has had a cold day – records in parts. I checked Richmond RAAF 67105 which hit 13 = coldest with 28 May 2002 – data from 1993.

  4. At Perth Metro 9225, minima for the month of May averaged at 8.9C. This compares to Perth Metro’s coldest ever May minimum monthly average of 8.8C in 2000, and 8.9C in 2006 and 2010. The May average at 9225 from 1993 to 2014 was 10.6C. At Perth RO which Metro replaced as the primary source for Perth temps because of its similar distance from the coast, the coldest ever May min average from 1897 to 1991 was 9.0C in 1968.

    So rounded to the first decimal, Perth had the equal second coldest May minimum in 118 years. Taken to the second decimal, it was the fourth coldest May for minima since 1897. Perth Metro May 2015 max was 21.3C compared to the station’s May average of 22.4C since 1993 (20.8C at Perth RO 9034 1897-1991, but 21.5C since 1967 when the station was shifted from Kings Park to Wellington St in the central city).

    At ACORN Perth Airport, it was the equal seventh coldest average May minimum since 1945 at 8.8C. At Guildford PO 9022, which was about two kilometres directly north of the current airport thermometers from 1901 to 1954, the average May min was 10.0C and May 2015 had the airport area’s 17th coldest average min since 1901.

    Much closer to the metropolitan coast at Swanbourne, this May the average min was 10.8C, the coldest since the station opened in 1993 (previous coldest 11.1C in 2010). At inland metropolitan Gosnells City, this May was second coldest since its 1991 opening at 10.1C. At Rottnest Island 9193, it was the coldest May average min since the station opened in 1983 (but equal 27th coldest since island recordings started at 9038 in 1880). At inland Northam 10111, this May was equal 14th coldest since 1902 at 6.6C. A few hundred km down the coast at Bunbury, it was the second coldest May minima since 1880 at 7.3C. Almost all WA locations I check aren’t necessarily record-setting but average May min were below their long-term averages, some by 1C to 2C.

    I’ve maintained a rolling annual update since early 2009 of the 32 oldest weather stations from the far north to far south of WA (www.waclimate.net/), and May 2015 saw an average 0.22C drop in the averaged running minimum over the last 12 months. Max slipped 0.08C. Note with min that the minimum thermometer at Wiluna 13012 (one of the 32) has not recorded any temps for the past two months so, for the first time, I’ve had to allow an average of 11 rather than 12 months. I’ve done so because it overestimates rather than underestimates temps. The missing month is May which has a long-term average min that is 4.3C below the station’s annual min average. i.e. it’s almost certainly been cooler at Wiluna over the past year than my 11 month average suggests, which in turn means the 32 station WA annual average is probably 0.23C or 0.24C lower than a month ago. Whichever, 0.22C is the largest monthly increase or decrease I’ve seen for minima since monitoring in March 2009 – although there was a 0.21C decrease in the 12 month running mean min between June and July 2012. In May 2015, quite a few WA stations saw a 0.4C cooling of their 12 month rolling average minimum.

    Note that according to the BoM’s monthly weather reviews (www.bom.gov.au/climate/mwr/), WA mean temps in March were just 0.06C above average, so the cooling trend probably extends over three months. The (super) El Nino is supposed to be happening so this is either a temporary lull before the heat or Mother Nature deciding to frustrate Australian warmists before Paris.

  5. The BoM temperature forecasts for the first six days of winter turned out this way. Interesting that the first couple of days forecast temperatures were further from the actuals than were days three to six.
    The minimum temperature recorded on 1 June, -7.5°C is not a record low but had it come the day before in May it would have been the lowest maximum for May which stands at -7.4°C recorded on 30 May 1994.

  6. Apologies, my comment above refers to the BoM’s weather forecasts for the first six days of winter at Mount Hotham, Victoria it is a follow-up to an earlier comment at:
    “Bob in Castlemaine June 10, 2015 at 11:41 am”

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