Little relief for Darwin as record cold continues
Press Release, Thursday June 30, 2011 – 13:47 EST
After a record cold May and now a record cold June, Darwin is struggling to thaw out and there’s little relief in sight, according to weatherzone.com.au.Combining daytime and nighttime temperatures, the city averaged just 22.5 degrees, a whopping two-and-half degrees colder than the long-term average and three degrees colder than June last year.
The previous coldest June was in 1949 when the average temperature was 22.7 degrees. The only other colder month in about 71 years of records was in July 1965, when the average was 22.5.
Nights have been the clincher, the coldest on record for June. Overnight minimums averaged 16.1 degrees, almost four degrees below than the long-term norm of 19.9. The previous June record for low minimums was 16.8, in 1949. There was only one colder month in the last 71 years, in July 1965, when the average was 15.8.
Days were the second coldest on record, for any month. On average, days were one-and-a half degrees colder than the long-term norm, averaging 29 degrees, compared to 30.6. The previous record was in June 1949, when the average was 28.7.
h/t to Scarlet Pumpernickel
Darwin doesn’t like heat:
http://appinsys.com/globalwarming/climgraph.aspx?pltparms=GHCNT100AJanDecI188220100900110AR50194120000x
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.” – Charles Darwin
“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.” – Charles Darwin
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” – Charles Darwin
If I recall an earlier discussion correctly (on WUWT), this is the Darwin of temperatures-rising-by-6-degrees-per-century fame.
Anyway, it just shows how inconsequential certain changes in temps are, as I am 1.000% sure 22.5C is just the same as 25C as far as every living being is concerned
Yeah, theyr’e hardly struggling to thaw out at 22.5C! Poor sods, must be hellish!
VENTING HAS BEGUN…. DOOM