The ABC reports Perth endures hottest November day since records began as Western Australia sizzles in the heat. BoM says – “…40.4 degrees on Saturday — the hottest November day since records began in 1897.” What a pack of rubbish!!
Perth has seen hotter days including 40.7 at Bentley Curtin 009161 on 22Nov1978.
Also on 22/11/1978 Perth RO 40.1; Perth Airport 40.2; Upper Swan Research Station 009067 41.2; Pearce RAAF 009053 41.6 All goes to show what an insignificant record the BoM are claiming. Many Perth people would have experienced hotter days in November.
More missing old records? They are getting good at forgetting.
The climate during November 1899
“The highest over recorded in
November was l05 deg.”
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3240384
Of course – the site moved several times so the record is a dogs breakfast – particularly for extremes – see www.waclimate.net/acorn2-wa/index.html – search for “Perth” on the page.
Ken Davis. That is both a good point and website worth looking at. But 41.1 degrees at a site that is still open, closer to the city than the airport and it was just 2003. Is that a short memory?
Swanbourne. BoM site no 009215 November 11 2003.
Perth regional office had a 40.3C (I have no idea what their conversion from F deg to C deg would have been) on 24th Nov 1913 at the Perth Regional Office (closed 1992).
Jo Nova has a bit on BoM temperature conversions here:
joannenova.com.au/2012/03/australian-temperature-records-shoddy-inaccurate-unreliable-surprise/
And, where was the 40.4C temperature recorded?
Warwick, off the topic, but re: Australian Rainfall.
I came across these papers on the internet which you may, or may not, be aware of:
joellegergis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Fenby_Gergis_IJC_2013.pdf
joellegergis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Gergis_Ashcroft_IJC_2013.pdf
Cheers.
Thank you John – I did not have your 2nd link.
Lots of work for next year.
Good luck Warwick. Love your site.
The 40.4c was one of the lower readings in the Perth metro area on 16 Nov 2019, but that is the official site to represent the main Perth metro area for forecasts and records. Many Perth metro sites broke their respective November record last week. Not sure what you are going on about here.
John of C, I suggest that everyone should take anything writen by J Gergis needs to be taken “with a grain of salt”. She was I think the lead author with Prof Karoly as co-author of a paper put on the internet before actual publication that had to be withdrawn because of a significant error in the statistics. She is an out spoken climate alarmist in Karoly’s geography department at Melb. Uni. I believe she claims to be associated with the IPCC. There are some climate alarmists getting back at sitting on the fence and doing some reasonable work but I believe Gergis is not one of those.
Yes Cementafriend Jolle Gergis is indeed an outspoken alarmist or as JoNova described her recently, a UN certified Seer.
joannenova.com.au/2019/08/climate-expert-or-un-certified-seer-joelle-gergis-does-gut-wrenching-grieving-horror-volcanic-rage/
Gergis, Ashcroft and even Karoly are involved with SEA, it’ll save their careers because its damn good work.
I am interested to find proxy studies of MDB climate/rainfall going back a few hundred years maybe a thousand.
I am surprised there have not been studies of cores from lake sediments around the Menindee Mungo region say.
Should be a simple proxy for Darling floods and dry spells.