Global media swoon over the dodgy claim by GISS that 2014 was hottest evah.
GISS have a rich tradition of adjusting temperature data to show more warming –
My animations show how GISS recently adds warming adjustments to Australian data – Melbourne as well as Alice Springs, Adelaide, Broken Hill and Willis Island.
Other articles on GISS going way back.
At your Giss maps link set the season to Sep, Oct, Nov, 2011 with a 250 km smoothing radius and you’ll see the entire continent of Australia is devoid of data. Giss uses mostly Ghcn data. I wrote an article a couple months ago about data handling at Ghcn and mentioned Australian data. You may be interested. Here is a link.
wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/03/ncdcs-ghcn-fumbles-data-handling/
I suspect their homogenization algorithm couldn’t handle the cool temperatures in those months, so they deleted the entire season.
Both Ghcn and Giss are upholding the typical standards of most government organizations and have been manipulating the data for years.