[UPDATE : This post is incorrect. I incorrectly included stations which had precipitation data back to 1895, but not necessarily temperature data. Ignore everything below, while I do further analysis]
There are 202 GHCN stations in Australia which were active in 1895, and were still active in 2013. They show Australia used to be much hotter, 1900 was the hottest year, and that BOM’s claim that 2013 was the “hottest year ever” was complete BS. It wasn’t even close.
Similar to the US, temperatures in Australia have been trending downwards for over a century. One interesting year is 1966, which was very cold in Australia.
List of stations below :
BIDYADANGA
ROEBOURNE
MARDIE
DENHAM
CUE
MURGOO
CARNAMAH
GERALDTON TOWN
WALEBING
ALBANY
BUSSELTON SHIRE
GOOMALLING
KELLERBERRIN
NORTHAM
BEVERLEY
KOJONUP
NARROGIN
PINGELLY
WAGIN
EUCLA
BALLADONIA
EYRE
DALY WATERS
VICTORIA RIVER DOWNS
KATHERINE COUNCIL
BRUNETTE DOWNS
BARROW CREEK
MOUNT IVE
MARREE (FARINA)
MARREE COMPARISON
ELLISTON
STREAKY BAY
NULLARBOR
HAWKER
YONGALA
GEORGETOWN
MAITLAND
WAROOKA
CAPE WILLOUGHBY
KINGSCOTE
KAPUNDA
ROSEDALE (TURRETFIEL
MOUNT BARKER
STRATHALBYN
EUDUNDA
MENINGIE
MURRAY BRIDGE COMPAR
LUCINDALE POST OFFIC
ROBE COMPARISON
COEN POST OFFICE
MORETON TELEGRAPH ST
PALMERVILLE
BURKETOWN POST OFFIC
CLONCURRY MCILLWRAIT
CROYDON TOWNSHIP
SWEERS ISLAND
MOUNT SURPRISE TOWNS
RICHMOND POST OFFICE
HERBERTON WHITE ST
LOW ISLES LIGHTHOUSE
PORT DOUGLAS - WARNE
CARDWELL MARINE PDE
INNISFAIL
BURDEKIN SHIRE COUNC
ST LAWRENCE POST OFF
PACIFIC HEIGHTS
CLERMONT SIRIUS ST
SPRINGSURE COMET ST
TAMBO POST OFFICE
TAROOM POST OFFICE
BARCALDINE POST OFFI
ISISFORD POST OFFICE
BLACKALL TOWNSHIP
CAMOOWEAL TOWNSHIP
BOULIA AIRPORT
WINDORAH POST OFFICE
BUSTARD HEAD LIGHTHO
SANDY CAPE LIGHTHOUS
CAPE MORETON LIGHTHO
DOUBLE ISLAND POINT
GYMPIE
MARYBOROUGH
NANANGO WILLS ST
SOUTHPORT RIDGEWAY A
MT TAMBORINE FERN ST
CAMBOOYA POST OFFICE
KILLARNEY POST OFFIC
PITTSWORTH
STANTHORPE LESLIE PA
WALLANGARRA POST OFF
MILES POST OFFICE
MITCHELL POST OFFICE
SURAT
BOLLON MARY ST
CUNNAMULLA POST OFFI
TIBOOBURRA POST OFFI
WILCANNIA (REID ST)
BROKEN HILL (PATTON
MENINDEE POST OFFICE
POONCARIE MAIL AGENC
BROKEN HILL (STEPHEN
WENTWORTH POST OFFIC
BREWARRINA HOSPITAL
COLLARENEBRI (ALBERT
GOODOOGA POST OFFICE
WANAARING POST OFFIC
BALRANALD (RSL)
IVANHOE POST OFFICE
CONDOBOLIN RETIREMEN
PEAK HILL POST OFFIC
GILGANDRA (CHELMSFOR
NYNGAN AIRPORT
MUNGINDI POST OFFICE
WALGETT COUNCIL DEPO
NARRABRI WEST POST O
BARRABA POST OFFICE
BINGARA POST OFFICE
WARIALDA POST OFFICE
WALLANGRA (WALLANGRA
GUNNEDAH POOL
QUIRINDI POST OFFICE
BUNDARRA POST OFFICE
DEEPWATER POST OFFIC
GUYRA POST OFFICE
TENTERFIELD (FEDERAT
YAMBA PILOT STATION
KEMPSEY (WIDE STREET
MURRURUNDI POST OFFI
NELSON BAY (NELSON H
NEWCASTLE NOBBYS SIG
JERRYS PLAINS POST O
CASSILIS POST OFFICE
CASSILIS (DALKEITH)
GULGONG POST OFFICE
MUDGEE (GEORGE STREE
OBERON (JENOLAN CAVE
KATOOMBA (MURRI ST)
OBERON (SPRINGBANK)
SPRINGWOOD BOWLING C
LITHGOW (COOERWULL)
COONABARABRAN (NAMOI
COOLAH (BINNIA ST)
CANOWINDRA (CANOWIND
MOLONG (KING ST)
WELLINGTON (AGROWPLO
SYDNEY (OBSERVATORY
PROSPECT RESERVOIR
RICHMOND - UWS HAWKE
MOSS VALE (HOSKINS S
PICTON COUNCIL DEPOT
BEGA (NEWTOWN ROAD)
BRAIDWOOD (WALLACE S
MORUYA HEADS PILOT S
BOMBALA (THERRY STRE
CROOKWELL POST OFFIC
NIMMITABEL WASTEWATE
TARALGA POST OFFICE
TUMBARUMBA POST OFFI
GRENFELL (QUONDONG R
WYALONG POST OFFICE
BERRIGAN POST OFFICE
COROWA AIRPORT
URANA POST OFFICE
DENILIQUIN (WILKINSO
HAY (MILLER STREET)
HILLSTON AIRPORT
LAKE CARGELLIGO AIRP
MOULAMEIN POST OFFIC
NARADHAN (URALBA)
LONGERENONG
ST ARNAUD
BOORT
ECHUCA AERODROME
KERANG
AVOCA (POST OFFICE)
DOOKIE AGRICULTURAL
BEECHWORTH COMPOSITE
EUROA
WOODS POINT
GABO ISLAND LIGHTHOU
WARRAGUL
WILSONS PROMONTORY L
MELBOURNE REGIONAL O
MORNINGTON
DURDIDWARRAH
MACEDON FORESTRY
ALEXANDRA (POST OFFI
CLUNES
LAKE EILDON
HEATHCOTE
MARYBOROUGH
SEYMOUR SHIRE DEPOT
CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUS
FINGAL (LEGGE STREET
LAKE LEAKE (ELIZABET
CAPE BRUNY LIGHTHOUS
HOBART (ELLERSLIE RO
MAATSUYKER ISLAND LI
MOUNT WELLINGTON (TH
BUSHY PARK (BUSHY PA
WARATAH (MOUNT ROAD)
DEAL ISLAND
Steve, tonight I have has two of your threads with a chart showing up on the right side superimposed on the comment listing.
Is it Word Unimpressed or my computer (ubunto with opera)
September 1966
Australian Skiers jubilant as late snowfalls extended the ski season.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/106937071
2014, Australian skiers are again jubilant with substantial late snow forecast this week.
June 1965 – Alice Spring frozen stiff at 23F
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/131830658
What can you find out about the summer of 1974 (besides Tracy) It was very cool that summer.
One event was the beaching of the Sygna on Stockton Beach in a monster storm in 1974. The storm knocked over almost every TV antenna in Newcastle, besides lifting roofing offplenty of houses. I remember cos I delivered papers around town.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/110782971
There was a repeat storm that beached the Pasha Bulka on Nobby’s Beach.
1974 Also had Wagga record floods, Brisbane Record floods, Newcastle monster storm and Cyclone Tracy in one year!
Canberra freezes in November 1965.
Snow fell steadily
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/105872433
I want to hug you! Yes, it was much hotter back then: 100 plus years ago. And your chart also suggests 1960 was a bit of a turning point. So what about two lines… one of cooling to 1960 and then another of warming to about 2002? I suggest why for NSW here… http://jennifermarohasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Changing_Temperature_Data.pdf
I’m very surprised that there were 202 stations active back then and still active today. That is a lot more than I would have thought. You’ve provided a list. Where can we find the data that matches.
Jennifer,
I thought you would like that! It was a huge pain figuring out which of the 20,000 GHCN ASN stations actually had temperature data, and it took me all day yesterday to accumulate the list from here ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/
Important to note that my calculations are not gridded, so they produce a strong bias towards the coasts. There are 1,650 temperature stations in all
If you have any specific investigations you would like done, it is easy for me now that I have the list of temperature stations.
Alarmists at Climate Science . Org are disappointed in Jenn Marohasy and the Australian.
Apparently questioning the “quality controlled” BOM data is not “scientifically legitimate.”
http://www.climatescience.org.au/content/775-questions-over-bureau-meteorology-data
Then again, when I was told that Santa Claus was not real, I too was disappointed.
Over the past 5 years, I watched as the available BOM temp data charts changed from no warming trends in sites not UHI effected (my favourite was Nobby’s Hedland in Newcastle), to almost every site having “warming.” I smelt a rat, and Jenn has been brave enough to have a crack at discovering who the rat is. We now know. As a taxpayer funded organisation, the BOM should put all unadulterated climate data on a government database accessible to all. We paid for it. While the BOM say their adjustments are “quality controlled” and “peer reviewed”, they have lost all credibility. It may be years before they regain it.
The famous explorer, Captain James Ross, who set up the first weather monitoring station in Australia (Hobart) in 1840, would be very “disappointed” that BOM apparatchiks were fiddling with his weather records.
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/05/28/2257898.htm
You can probably add Charleville Queensland to this list.
The Post Office site ran from about 1875 till 1959.
The airport runs from 1942 till current and is most likely quoted, ignoring the overlap
This ones going to be a lot harder for them to ignore.
But you still haven’t “layed a glove” on “our BOM”.
Simply because anybody that counts (read government) is conspicuous in their silence and inaction.
All your getting is a two fingered salute from “our BOM”.
And thats making a lot of people angry.
I wonder if the BOM realize the size of the storm they are creating?
@JenniferM and @TonyH: Humbly, I am in the presence of greatness on this thread.
Thanks to both of you on your great effort exposing these alterations to
the historical records. Huzzaahh!
If these homogenists increase the trends much more, the data will be pateurised, never mind homogenised
or pasteurised
Does that mean the trend will also be sterilised? Completely free of real-life data!
http://www.addinall.net/climate/ausclimate/100yrural/
Extracted from
http://www.addinall.net/climate/ausclimate/100yrural/wstations
Reblogged this on the WeatherAction Blog and commented:
Hottest ever…*cough*
Much like the Northern Hemisphere, Australia was cold in the 1960’s and 1970’s.