Weather Chat Thread

Would be unreal, if, you know, Gascoyne Junction actually had a weather station that worked.

They have  a real dodgy manual one.

www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW6047.latest.shtml

11.15am local time in WA.... +47c at coastal Geraldton and Carnarvon !

With the near +50c max temps in WA yesterday, I thought I'd post up the yearly records in Australia dating back to 1957 ( BoM digitised records )
Also showing the altitude of these sites....mostly at low altitude as one would expect given the DALR of between 0.7c-1.0c drop in air temp for every 100m of altitude.

So the hottest places in Australia per year since 1957:
Mardie - 14 times
Roebourne - 5 times
Birdsville - 5 times
Onslow - 4 times
Emu Creek - 3 times
Leonora - 2 times
Tarcoola - 2 times
Mundrabilla - 2 times
Fitzroy Crossing - 2 times
Moomba - 2 times
All the other towns on the list once only.

Most northerly hottest place - Camballin, WA ( 17.99*S )
Most southerly hottest place - Penrith Lakes, NSW ( 33.72*S )

2024 - 49.9c ( Carnarvon, 4m asl )
2023 - 49.5c ( Roebourne, 11m asl )
2022 - 50.7c ( Onslow, 11m asl )
2021 - 47.9c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
2020 - 48.9c ( Penrith, 26m asl )
2019 -49.9c ( Nullarbor, 63m asl )
2018 - 49.3c ( Marble Bar, 18sm asl )
2017 - 48.2c ( Tarcoola, 123m asl )
2016 - 47,8c ( Emu Creek, 111m asl )
2015 - 49.2c ( Roebourne, 11m asl )
2014 - 49.3c ( Moomba, 38m asl )
2013 - 49.6c ( Moomba, 38m asl )
2012 - 47.5c ( Birdsville, 47m asl
2011 - 49.4c ( Roebourne, 11m asl )
2010 - 49.2c ( Onslow, 11m asl )
2009 - 49.0c ( Emu Creek, 111m asl )
2008 - 49.2c ( Onslow, 11m asl )
2007 - 48.6c ( Hyden, 299m asl )
2006 - 48.5c ( Birdsville, 47m asl )
2005 - 48.0c ( Marree, 50m asl )
2004 - 48.5c ( Ivanhoe, 85m asl )
2003 - 48.9c ( Roebourne, 11m )
2002 - 48.0c ( Marble Bar, 182m asl )
2001 - 48.0c ( Wudinna, 86m asl )
2000 - 47.0c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1999 - 48.2c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1998 - 50.5c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1997 - 48.4c ( Emu Creek, 111m asl )
1996 - 47.5c ( Emu Creek, 111m asl )
1995 - 47.4c ( Roebourne, 11m asl )
1994 - 48.2c ( Roebourne, 11m asl )
1993 - 48,4c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1992 - 48.2c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1991 - 48.8c ( Gascoyne Junction, 144m asl )
1990 - 48.8c ( Birdsville, 47m asl )
1989 - 46.7c ( Marble Bar, 182m asl )
1988 - 49.0c ( Marla Bore, 323m asl )
1987 - 48.2c ( Birdsville, 47m asl )
1986 - 48.8c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1985 - 48.7c ( Nokanena, 60m asl )
1984 - 47.1c ( Nanga, 20m asl )
1983 - 48.6c ( Mundrabilla, 20m asl )
1982 - 48.5c ( Tarcoola, 120m asl
1981 - 49.0c ( Birdsville, 47m asl )
1980 - 48.1c ( Carnamah, 268m asl )
1979 - 49,8c ( Mundrabilla, 20m asl and Forrest, 156m asl )
1978 - 48.0c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1977 - 49.2c ( Mardie 11m asl )
1976 - 47.3c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1975 - 47.2c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1974 - 47.4c ( Camballin, 45m asl )
1973 - 48.2c ( Marble Bar, 182m asl )
1972 - 49,5c ( Birdsville, 47m asl )
1971 - 49.4c ( Madura Station, 100m asl )
1970 - 48.3c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1969 - 47.9c Fitzroy Crossing, 114m asl
1968 - 48.6c ( Eneabba, 229m asl )
1967 - 47.6c ( Marble Bar, 182m asl )
1966 - 46.5c ( Fitzroy Crossing, 114m asl )
1965 - 47.6c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1964 - 46.8c ( Marble Bar, 182m asl
1963 - 48.9c ( Mardie, 11m asl )
1962 - 47.8c ( Murgoo, 303m asl )
1961 - 47.2c ( Marble Bar, 182m asl )
1960 - 50.7c ( Oodnadatta, 117m asl )
1959 - 48.3c ( Onslow, 11m asl )
1958 - 47.8m Leonora, 376m asl
1957 - 47.8c ( Leonora, 376m asl )

So how common is a 49c ( the old 120f ) max temp in Australia ?
Well, despite the great unwashed being convinced of +50c temps "for weeks on end at Woop Woop Station out beyond the Black Stump when i was a kid....", the answer is 'not common at all....' and going back through the digitised BOM records to 1957, I can only find 59 such temps recorded.
There are a few others in the list prior to 1957, with the stand outs from the historic Jan 1939 heatwave.... Wilcannia 50.1c, Menindee 49.7c and Kyancutta 49.3c

50.7c - Onslow, WA 2022
50.7c - Oodnadatta, SA 1960
50.5c - Roebourne, WA 2022
50.5c - Mardie, WA 2022
50.5c - Mardie, WA 1998
50.3c - Oodnadatta.SA 1960
50.1c - Wilcannia, NSW 1939
49.9c - Carnarvon, WA 2024
49.9c - Nullarbor, SA 2019
49.8c - Shark Bay, WA 2024
49.8c - Eucla, WA 2019
49.8c - Emu Creek, WA 1998
49.8c - Forrest, WA 1979
49.8c - Mundrabilla, WA 1979
49.7c - Menindee, NSW 1939
49.6c - Moomba, SA 2013
49.5c - Roebourne, WA 2023
49.5c - Forrest, WA 2019
49.5c - Port Augusta, SA 2019
49.5c - Birdsville,QLD 1972
49.4c - Birdsville, QLD 2024
49.4c - Roebourne, WA 2011
49.4c - Emu Creek, WA 1998
49.4c - Madura Station, WA 1971
49.4c - Marree, SA 1960
49.4c - whyalla, SA 1960
49.3c - Geraldton, WA 2024
49.3c - Marble Bar, WA 2023
49.3c - Onslow, WA 2023
49.3c - Birdsville, QLD 2019
49.3c - Marble Bar, WA 2018
49.3c - Moomba, SA 2014
49.3c - Kyancutta, SA 1939
49.2c - Keith, SA 2019 ( the most southerly +49c max temp in AU ( 36.11*S )
49.2c - Kyancutta, SA 2019
49.2c - Roebourne, WA 2015
49.2c - Emu Creek, WA 2014
49.2c - Onslow, WA 2011
49.2c - Onslow, WA 2010
49.2c - Onslow. WA 2008
49.2c - Mardie, WA 1977
49.2c - Oodnadatta, SA 1960
49.2c - Marble Bar, WA 1922
49.1c - Emu Creek, WA 2024
49.1c - Eyre, WA 2024
49.1c - Tarcoola, SA 2019
49.1c - Red Rocks Point, WA 2019 ( the hottest temp ever recorded at a site located on the beach facing an Ocean )
49.1c - Marble Bar, WA 2019
49.1c - Onslow, WA 2018
49.1c - Walgett, NSW 2014
49.1c - Emu Creek, WA 2010
49.1c - Roebourne, WA 2008
49.1c - Moomba, SA 1972
49.0c - Tarcoola, SA 2019
49.0c - Marble Bar, WA 2015
49.0c - Birdsville, QLD 2013
49.0c - Leonora, WA 2013
49.0c - Mardie, WA 2010
49.0c - Emu Creek, WA 2009
49.0c - Port Hedland, WA 2008
49.0c - Roebourne, WA 2008
49.0c - Marla Bore, SA 1988
49.0c - Birdsville, QLD 1981
49.0c - Marree, SA 1972

I'm fuckin' tired of this tropical crap weather. Temps 6-10°C above average for ages now... I hope we have a cold March and April. Another cold sunny April would be just great. 

The Bureau heatwave service was pioneered by John Nairn.
Have a read of the science underpinning the 'Extreme Heat Factor'.
Gotta remember the BoM copped a shitload of critisim re forecasting the Black Saturday fires in 2009 and really do the arse covering thing nowadays with heat and fire danger forecasts
www.cawcr.gov.au/technical-reports/CTR_060.pdf

Some other reading:
news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138802

Lmao. They don't state what the dewpoint or humidity was, and act as if an air temperature of 62C was recorded. While I do not doubt the legitimacy of this, weather reporting needs to improve.


www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/holiday-hotspot-issues-urgent-heatwave-32384485

Coldest temp by state in the 2023-2024 cold season:

Alaska:            -66

Montana:         -54

Wyoming:        -46
Idaho:             -45
South Dakota:  -41

Washington:     -39
Colorado:         -39
North Dakota:  -37
Nebraska:        -34

Minnesota:       -28
Iowa:              -28
Oregon:           -26
Illinois:            -25
New Mexico:    -23
Wisconsin:       -23
Missouri:         -23
Kansas:           -22
Utah:              -22
Nevada:          -20

Arizona:          -19
Maine:            -19
Tennessee:      -18
Indiana:          -17
Michigan:        -16
N. Hampshire: -16
Vermont:         -16
New York:       -16
Arkansas:       -15
California:       -14
West Virginia:  -13
Kentucky:       -13
Virginia:          -12
Maryland:       -10
Mississippi:     -10
Oklahoma:      -10

Ohio:                -9
Pennsylvania:    -9
Alabama:          -7
North Carolina: -7
Massachusetts: -4
Texas:              -4

Georgia:           1
Louisiana:         2
New Jersey:      2
South Carolina: 4
Connecticut:     4
Rhode Island:   8
Delaware:        9

Florida:           18

Hawaii:           27

Coldest in the US: North Pole, AK (-66 on February 3rd)