Rate The Climate: Gascoyne Junction, Western Australia
Jan 4, 2022 1:51:26 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on Jan 4, 2022 1:51:26 GMT -5
Gascoyne Junction, Western Australia. Just your typical run-of-the-mill Outback shithole-cum-hellhole convieniently located in the 'sweet spot' of 25*S and 115*E that consistently produces sickening summer heat, prolonged and severe drought and once or twice a decade devastating flooding rains with the passage of ex tropical cyclones.
The town itself is located 175klm inland from Carnarvon on the coast and is sited on the normally dry banks of the Gascoyne River.
As you would expect, the climate has a hot desert Koppen classification.
Although rainfall records have been kept at the location since 1897, the temp records are sparse and often incomplete from year to year. Some digitised records back to the early 1960's, but the largest block of complete max and min temp records are between 1990 and 2010.
The dedicated Aussie weather/data nerd is generally a tad disappointed with the BOM re Gascoyne Junction and the paucity of recordings from the site. I have heard/am lead to believe it is a manual site as opposed to an AWS and the Observers ( volunteers ) are not as ...err... dedicated to accurate and punctual record keeping as an AWS probe. Hence the large chunks of missing data. Indeed, the Bom issues forecasts for the town, but seems like there is no one collecting data atm.
A real shame as Gascoyne Junction is a low elevation river valley site in the 'sweet spot' for extreme heat, and is a likely candidate every summer for high 40c's max temps, indeed that elusive figure of 50c is a possibility. In fact there are consecutive 49c's forecast for Wed and Thur this week.
Anyways, here is some further reading re the extreme variability of rainfall in the region. The Gascoyne River is usually dry ( I have never seen water in it myself ), but when it comes, it comes big time ! 2010 was the big one in the Valley
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Gascoyne_River_flood
So....all this extra info on Gascoyne Junction to help y'all with an informed rating of the climate !
The town itself is located 175klm inland from Carnarvon on the coast and is sited on the normally dry banks of the Gascoyne River.
As you would expect, the climate has a hot desert Koppen classification.
Although rainfall records have been kept at the location since 1897, the temp records are sparse and often incomplete from year to year. Some digitised records back to the early 1960's, but the largest block of complete max and min temp records are between 1990 and 2010.
The dedicated Aussie weather/data nerd is generally a tad disappointed with the BOM re Gascoyne Junction and the paucity of recordings from the site. I have heard/am lead to believe it is a manual site as opposed to an AWS and the Observers ( volunteers ) are not as ...err... dedicated to accurate and punctual record keeping as an AWS probe. Hence the large chunks of missing data. Indeed, the Bom issues forecasts for the town, but seems like there is no one collecting data atm.
A real shame as Gascoyne Junction is a low elevation river valley site in the 'sweet spot' for extreme heat, and is a likely candidate every summer for high 40c's max temps, indeed that elusive figure of 50c is a possibility. In fact there are consecutive 49c's forecast for Wed and Thur this week.
Anyways, here is some further reading re the extreme variability of rainfall in the region. The Gascoyne River is usually dry ( I have never seen water in it myself ), but when it comes, it comes big time ! 2010 was the big one in the Valley
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Gascoyne_River_flood
So....all this extra info on Gascoyne Junction to help y'all with an informed rating of the climate !
