The BoM enjoys beating up “extremes of climate” – this page of New South Wales highest maximum temperatures for 2nd November 2014 has a string of glaring errors –
Scone SCS might have been transposed from the previous day because SCONE AIRPORT AWS (061363) registered only 26.3. Lostock Dam, Pindari Dam in the far north and Yass also look to have been transposed from the previous day.
Yarras, 60km west of Port Macquarie also looks too high at 29° and is not reflected in the daily contour map below.
So that whole area of light pink and light brown contouring SE of and surrounding Scone looks dodgy. (Hat tip to reader Ian George)
Warick
The story is pretty simple. The thermometer is read only 5 days a week. The value reported was an accumulated one.
Not only will this result in hotter maxima showing up in summer, but cooler minima showing in winter. A fact that a balanced observer might like to point out. sigh
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=2014&p_c=-746540680&p_stn_num=061089
Kind regards
George.