The ABC reports “In Sydney we’ve seen the hottest year on record with temperatures well above average, and that is how the year is finishing as well, right across New South Wales,” Will comment more when data is in after years end.
The ABC reports “In Sydney we’ve seen the hottest year on record with temperatures well above average, and that is how the year is finishing as well, right across New South Wales,” Will comment more when data is in after years end.
We had similar MEDIA hype in Melbourne, e.g. the “hottest Christmas day in memory”. I guess if you have a warmist agenda then heat waves can be whatever you deem them to be.
As with Sydney, Melbourne’s population (and UHI anomaly) has increased significantly since the mid 1940s to now be more than 5 million. Melbourne’s temperature on Christmas day this year, recorded at the new Melbourne (Olympic Park) station, was 36.3 deg C. Media reports acknowledged Melbourne’s last Christmas day as hot as this year to be 1998, measured at Melbourne Regional Office station. The last hotter Christmas day was in 1952 when it was 36.7 deg C measured at the Melbourne Regional Office station. The Age had this to say at the time.
Some other hot Melbourne Christmas days that seniors may remember:
1946 – 39.5 deg C. The Age had this to say.
1945 – 39.9 deg C. The Argus had this to say.
I also notice a large horseshoe shape of dry continent, splitting rainy monsoon exactly where there is no radar or stations, for the week’s rainfall to 28th December. Those same ‘hotspots’ again?
The month to date rain map shows the ends of your horseshoe Tom.
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/rain/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=percent&period=cmonth&area=nat
No rainfall or temperature recordings from Balgo, like last year at this time. Wet to the North, East and South at other recording centres of Halls Creek, Giles and Rabbit Flat. The low pressure storms covered that whole region.
Perth is having some cool periods this month even the ABC is reporting “Where’s summer? Perth hit with ‘winter-like’ weather”
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-29/perth-cool-summer-weather-hits-beachside-trade/8153374?WT.ac=statenews_wa
Near average over the month.
www.australianweathernews.com/data/DE1_09.HTM
If you look at where the weather stations are for Perth. GPO, Perth airport, Jandakot etc. All will have a component of UHI.
In spite of that minimums throughout the lower SW have been below average. Maximums about average, at least for the handful of stations that I have checked.
Recent (preliminary) Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) values
www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/seasonalclimateoutlook/southernoscillationindex/30daysoivalues/
Looks like an error on 23rd December:
……………Tahiti…Darwin………..SOI
23 Dec 2016 881.29 1006.85 -670.93
www.wunderground.com/history/airport/NTAA/2016/12/23/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Tahiti-Papeete&req_state=&req_statename=French+Polynesia&reqdb.zip=00000&reqdb.magic=1&reqdb.wmo=91938
So it turned out a 2 day “heatwave” for Sydney, we trust they coped.
www.australianweathernews.com/data/DE1_66.HTM
Talk about fake news.
The trouble is even though many of these over hyped “heat wave” weather reports prove to be wrong they nevertheless provide our progressive, Left dominated media with a pretext for repeatedly scaring the living suitcase out of the ordinary punters. A deliberate policy aimed at supporting the preferred narrative of the warmist crowd?