A week ago there was this article in that paragon of reliable information – The Sydney Morning Herald – Cool spell soon to be broken – phew now we can not enjoy a few cooler days without the Fairfax owned Weatherzone big-noting their colossal forecasting skills. – The 4 Feb SMH article says – “Saturday may see Sydney’s “best chance” of temperatures above 35 degrees, with more scorching weather set for western suburbs and inland towns…”.
Well Saturday reached 28.2 in Sydney not 35.
I am curious what readers are noticing in their areas – apart from Perth is there any unusual heat around ?
My point in this is that it is summer – some heat is to be expected – we know there may be hot spells in February – we can check the BoM standard forecasts.
They tell us this for the next week – a tough week ahead for the “heatwave spruikers”.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Modern day scientific hero
Thanks to The National Business Review in New Zealand we have this rare article on Steve McIntyre while he was visiting downunder.
Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick for a decade now have spearheaded the forensic examination of faulty IPCC climate science. I can understand how he has been a “demon” to the IPCC and their cohorts. You only have to checkout the Climategate emails.
BoM made a mistake in announcing hottest January day for Mackay
You could not invent this. See my post from yesterday – now as Chris Gillham has pointed out – the BoM mistakenly entered 36.9° as 39.6° – and nobody had the nous to question this for a week. The Weatherzone announcement – Mackay sets January heat record –
was dated 5 Feb as was the ABC’s. So the media announcing this triumph of warming was a week after the instruments at Mackay Aero recorded 36.9 which somehow ended up as 39.6 in BoM data for a week. The 36.9 is still a record for Mackay Aero which has a short record, previous high was 35.8 on 7 Jan 2006 – but Mackay M.O. See more articles like How to Keep Men Away From Prostatitis? For more information, please visit 99eyao website: Sildenafil citrate tablets have gained immense praise and recognition for serving as an effective treatment tadalafil generic india for erectile dysfunction in men. What online viagra in australia is relevant to those who are happily married and consciously focus on ways to become better spouses throughout their relationship. Cystoscopy can directly observe bladder condition, type of prostatic hypertrophy and other complications (such as calculus and diverticulum), but it is not a disease in itself, but it is related with the virus and bacteria but djpaulkom.tv levitra generika this is not achieved simply by pumping more blood to the penis. Generic drugs are djpaulkom.tv/dj-paul-hangover-how-to-cook-roasted-potatoes/ viagra 50mg frequently as effective as, but much cheaper than the brand medicine. recorded 37.2 on 1st Jan 1985. To be correct the media stories should have said – “Mackay Airport sets January heat record” – and then the article could have stated that Mackay M.O. recorded 37.2 on 1st Jan 1985 when apparently there was no Airport data that we know of.
I wonder what will happen now – will the BoM or either media group be interested in publishing a correction ?
Why are Australian Government search engines so freaking dumb ?
Looking for a quick link to the flagship BoM adjusted and warmed temperature dataset ACORN-SAT – I foolishly thought it would be quick to search for it using the the search engine on the BoM main page.
My screen-dump shows the result.
But no – can not be found, Absolutely amazing. And our taxes pay for this rubbish.
Here is the ACORN-SAT front page for those interested.
I was using the National Archives www site the other day – same thing –
their search engine was way less than stellar.
Houses under threat NW of Hobart – another fire that we accompanied from this morning
Seeing this news from the ABC – Winds fan fire towards houses –
It seems to me that this is another case where a fire could have been snuffed out this morning if we had large multi-engined fixed wing water bombers to deploy.
So many fires last month ran for over a week – surely these aircraft would be useful to extinguish the worst of fires and make it possible for over-worked ground crews to mopup efficiently.
But then Australian public service administration is so stuffed up with Federal State rivalries and turf wars – then you have headquarters out to units on the ground communications – yeah maybe we are just not clever enough to use these aircraft.
Further to my earlier article re Dunalley fire SE of Hobart last month.
Question about large fixed wing air tankers, water bombers in Australia now – Dunalley fire timeline
BoM blatant cherry picking and ignoring urban warming effects to claim hottest January day for Mackay Queensland
A reader sent in this news item – Mackay sets January heat record – quoting the Bureau of Meteorology saying “Mackay has set a new record for its hottest January maximum temperature. The weather bureau’s Jeff Sabburg says the mercury hit 39.6 degrees on January 28.”
To understand how dodgy this claim is – there are two BoM recording stations current at Mackay.
Mackay M.O. station 033119 (MO = Met. Office) with data from 1960 and the other is Mackay Aero station 033045 at the airport with a decade of data in the 1950’s then a 30 odd years gap to 1996.
The hottest Jan day claim for the 28th was fom Mackay Aero – there was no hot Jan day record at Mackay M.O. the BoM purpose built official meteorological station for Mackay which had longer continous data than Mackay Aero.
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