Lance called to say he heard BoM lady on TV claim that the 30.0 degrees registered on Wed. 12 Dec at Darwin Airport was the hottest night evah (since 1941) beating 29.7 in 2014. The BoM has short memories when their own data shows Darwin Post Office registered a minimum of 30.2 degrees on 26th Dec 1890.
Also
30.7 degrees on 18th Jan 1928
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=42&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=014016
(if I am reading it right)
Yep Jeff. You are reading it right.
Also at the post office site.
1941 Dec 7,8,9 and 17. @ 30 degrees.
1933 Jan 6, @ 30.1
1928 Feb 24. @ 30.1
Here is the story from 2014 showing they forgot to mention those hotter nights then too.
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-17/darwin-matches-record-night-time-temperature/5972908
The talking head I saw on the TV may not have been from the BoM but the tweet quoted by photo here in the link below sure is. The meaning of record hangs delicately on the word “airport”.
The ABC story has no clue to that.
“Darwin broke an unwanted record on Tuesday night when the overnight minimum temperature reached a balmy 30C degrees.
“This surpassed the previous maximum of 29.7C, making it the city’s hottest night on record, ….”
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-13/dermatology-what-happens-to-your-skin-when-you-sweat/10610704
“The future is certain”! Only the past is misunderstood…..
The media/BoM sure has us on a steep learning curve at present.
Queensland Chanel 7 News tonight advised us that a settlement near Weipa had 200mm of rain in 24 hours which was a one in one hundred year event – WRONG.
The same news item then said somewhere in Victoria had 25mm of rain in 15 minutes which was also a one in one hundred year event – PLAIN BLOODY STUPID.
We have been shown footage of cars driving on wet roads – SHOCK AND HORROR.
We have seen footage of trees blown down – SHOCK AND HORROR.
We have seen footage of people walking with umbrellas – SHOCK AND HORROR.
How gullible is the Australian public?
BTW – Can any of you wise folk advise me of the one in one hundred year rainfall event for 5 seconds?
Here’s the best I can do.
wmo.asu.edu/content/world-greatest-one-minute-rainfall
This BoM page has Australia’s Record Rainfall tables State by State for various periods of minutes. A chart at the end shows the global 1 minute record is 40mm.
Sydney in 1901.
” For 11 minutes the
torrent raged at a rate of 6 inches and 60
points per hour, and at 12 minutes to 11
o’clock, or just an hour after the storm set
in, 6 inches and 40 points of rain had fallen”
I make that as 167.64mM per hour.
For the 11 minutes that is about 31mM but notice it nearly did that rate for the whole hour.
6.4 inches = 162.5mM/hour.
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/72075633
The BoM seem to have forgotten it by 1949.
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/185824258
Hmmm. A very different version of the 1901 event here quoting the same source.
The above story may have been forgotten for good reason.
” In that 20 minutes 140 points fell,
84 of which fell in six minutes, a rate equal to
8.40 in per hour. ”
“https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/185824258
Newspapers. Grrrh.
Yet another version of the Sydney 1901 event.
“For over ten minutes the rain fell at a rate
of six inches and 60 points per hour. Within
an hour two inches and 40 points of rain had
fallen.”
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22851357