The week of hot weather in Sydney early in February must have raised spirits in the BoM and other followers of the IPCC bandwagon. I would guess that this induced a hyper-excited state that lead to such a shoddy “SPECIAL CLIMATE STATEMENT 27”. Let us remember that the last six months of maximum temperature (day-time) anomalies looks pretty much cool for the vast majority of the continent.
Then along came Cyclone Yasi which coincided with the one week NSW heat wave – January 30th and February 6th.
Here is the max anomaly map for week ending 8th Feb –
note the extensive cool anomalies compared to what is left of the heat wave – I must remember to get a map that ends at 6th Feb.
And the last week available is pretty much cool too.
I don’t know if anyone’s been following Ken Stewart’s attempts to obtain info from BOM; encapsulated here
kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/open-letter-to-tony-burke-mp/
(with previous correspondence linked)
Yep… it certainly has been a tough six months for Australian warmists, and the BoM.
And you know what… studies like the following one, which links floods and droughts to El Nino/La Nina events, simply add insult to injury:
www.news.pitt.edu/news/Abbott-wet-dry-cycles-American-West