Chris Gillham in Perth has been monitoring mean daily temperatures at Perth BoM sites and says Perth Airport 9021 is a shoo-in to have the coldest September mean since opening in 1944. Perth Metro 9225 in Mount Lawley has only been open from Jan 1994 replaced Perth Regional Office 9034 which commenced 1897 and underwent various moves before ending up in East Perth. Progress with temperature updates can be checked at AWN or the BoM.
Chris has a page discussing the history of various Perth weather stations since 1897. I will update as the final numbers are available and hope to include other Perth region sites such as Pearce – Jandakot – Medina etc It is amazing we can have a month like this in the teeth of the vast Perth urban heat island.
Widespread frosts across the Wheatbelt have hit grain crops in a year there have been good rains.
And BoM has been predicting lack of rain and higher temperatures would make grain growing no longer viable across much of the Wheatbelt.
www.wheatbeltnrm.org.au/sites/default/files/basic_page/files/Climate%20Change.pdf
Here are a few other odds n ends re September that caught my eye – I can add to whenever – If readers notice anything of note please add.
Canberra 149.2mm rain in Sep a record since 1978 which was 150.6 – so a whisker off record since 1939.
Adelaide 131.2mm rain in Sep a record since 2001 which was 137.2.
Nuriootpa 139.4mm rain in Sep a record since 1979 which was 148.4.
Giles a miserly 2.8mm rain in Sep.
September 2016 was the coldest recorded since 1897 in the southern half of WA, based on average temperatures at ACORN stations … see www.waclimate.net/september-coldest-2016.html
In addition to the record cold September Chris –
BoM Time Series show each month starting May 2016 in SW WA has a Mean T in the blue zone – that is below the ACORN average.
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=tmean&area=swaus&season=05&ave_yr=0
If you look at Max T the run of cool months starts in April – making 6 cool months to Sept.
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=tmax&area=swaus&season=09&ave_yr=0
Hi Wazsah. Here is another red spot in the middle of a sea of pale blue, East Donnybrook: www.bom.gov.au/wa/flood/southern_coast.shtml
Yes Tom and I see the DAFWA station East Beverley is starring again too on both the 8th and 9th.
www.bom.gov.au/wa/flood/swan_avon.shtml