Bourke, NSW is one of less than a dozen stations in Australia with a good long term daily temperature record in the GHCN database. Bourke reached 120F three times from 1878 to 1906, and never got that hot again. Maximum temperatures declined from 1878 until the mid-1970s, and have risen since then.
The last three summers have been almost as hot as 1878 and 1892.
Two of the worst heatwaves occurred in 1896 and 1878. In 1896, the January average maximum temperature was 110F.
The New York Times described it as the worst heatwave on record.
India also was reported to reach 123 degrees in January, 1896.
08 Jan 1896 – HOT WEATHER. – Trove
During the Northern Hemisphere summer of 1896, there was a tremendous heatwave in Europe.
18 Jul 1896 – Great Heat in Europe. – Trove
Another major heatwave occurred in January, 1878 when Bourke had eighteen days over 110F, and two days over 120F.
Not one of the above articles attributed the unprecedented heat to AGW. What the hell did journalists do back then? The good news is, the failure of all those guys in 1896 to use that heat wave crisis to blame humans and demand sacrifice is being made up for by Seth Borenstein. All by himself. And I do mean “made up.”
You gonna mentioned that Europe has apparently been warming faster than climate models projected?
No, because it hasn’t.
Why do you hate poor brown people Ms Ma’am?
Dumb attempt at distraction by the ignorant slur
Climate models are nonsense.
Urban warming is not.
Miss Priss,
Thank you for your representation of climate alarmunism on this site.
So what was going on in 1896 that would lead to heat waves in both the northern and southern hemispheres within the same year? Was solar activity particularly high? Were the AMO and PDO in perfect sync? A massive El Nino?
April, 1896: The first study of the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide is published. Svante Arrhenius presents his findings in his paper, “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground”, the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, as an extract of a paper that had been presented to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on December 11, 1895.
Build it, and they will come.
Looks as though the 11th strongest El Nino ever recorded was happening from July 1896 thru February 1897. That would explain the heat spells in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
I’m going to do a post soon showing correlations between US and Australian heatwaves.
On August 26 a new daily minimum temperature of -1.6 degrees was established on Kolguev Island, easily beating the previous record of 0.5 degrees set 36 years ago.
During night and early morning on Wednesday the temperature in the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions will drop to -1 degree. In the Nenets okrug it will drop to -2, and in the Komi Republic to -2.
https://www.iceagenow.info/new-record-cold-in-european-russia-north/
Imagine! Records broken without the assistance of UHI.
Thank you for publishing these data. I have elsewhere proposed that the austral summer of 1877-1878 may have been the hottest in 200 years, based not only on hot summer weather in the southern hemisphere, but an unequalled warm winter in the American Midwest. Perhaps somebody with better access to old temperature data would follow up on this. Here is a copy of my post (https://notrickszone.com/2019/08/23/earth-surface-temperature-data-too-scant-no-certainty-southern-hemisphere-stations-show-cooling-since-1880/#comment-1302159):
You may want to look at the temperature record of the preceding decade, 1870-1879. I believe that the austral summer of 1877 to 1878 may have been the hottest summer of the past two centuries.
In the American Midwest (winter)it was extraordinarily warm, with St. Paul, Minnesota experiencing the year with no winter:
http://climateapps.dnr.state.mn.us/doc/journal/wint77_78.html
“The winter of 1877-1878 — the so-called winter without a winter — was one of the most extreme and anomalous events in Upper Midwest meteorological history. Average temperatures at the St. Paul Signal Corps station were far above winter normals: 34 F in December 1877 (with an overnight minimum temperature of 45 F on 22 December), 22 F in January 1878, 32 F in February 1878 and 45 F in March 1878. As these values suggest, springlike temperatures prevailed throughout much of the winter, provoking the 2 March 1878 edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press to comment that “….yesterday was the first day of spring, in theory, but in fact we have had the first days of spring nearly all winter….” More at the link.
In Australia, the summer of 1877-1878 may have been the hottest on record:
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/09/homogenisation-of-williamstown-temperatures-draws-attention-to-hot-newcastle-in-1878/
and
http://joannenova.com.au/2015/01/forgotten-extreme-heat-el-nino-of-1878-when-miners-yearned-for-the-years-when-theyd-knock-off-at-44-4c/
South America experienced extremely hot weather:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233922059_The_1877-78_El_Nino_episode_Climate_anomalies_in_South_America_and_associated_impacts
And in India, this was the worst drought since 1871:
https://www.tropmet.res.in/~kolli/MOL/Monsoon/Historical/air.html
Thank you for these data about 1878. I have elsewhere posted the opinion that the austral summer of 1877-1878 was the hottest of the last 200 years (https://notrickszone.com/2019/08/23/earth-surface-temperature-data-too-scant-no-certainty-southern-hemisphere-stations-show-cooling-since-1880/#comment-1302159):
In the American Midwest (winter)it was extraordinarily warm, with St. Paul, Minnesota experiencing the year with no winter:
http://climateapps.dnr.state.mn.us/doc/journal/wint77_78.html
“The winter of 1877-1878 — the so-called winter without a winter — was one of the most extreme and anomalous events in Upper Midwest meteorological history. Average temperatures at the St. Paul Signal Corps station were far above winter normals: 34 F in December 1877 (with an overnight minimum temperature of 45 F on 22 December), 22 F in January 1878, 32 F in February 1878 and 45 F in March 1878. As these values suggest, springlike temperatures prevailed throughout much of the winter, provoking the 2 March 1878 edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press to comment that “….yesterday was the first day of spring, in theory, but in fact we have had the first days of spring nearly all winter….” More at the link.
In Australia, the summer of 1877-1878 may have been the hottest on record:
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/09/homogenisation-of-williamstown-temperatures-draws-attention-to-hot-newcastle-in-1878/
and
http://joannenova.com.au/2015/01/forgotten-extreme-heat-el-nino-of-1878-when-miners-yearned-for-the-years-when-theyd-knock-off-at-44-4c/
South America experienced extremely hot weather:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233922059_The_1877-78_El_Nino_episode_Climate_anomalies_in_South_America_and_associated_impacts
And in India, this was the worst drought since 1871:
https://www.tropmet.res.in/~kolli/MOL/Monsoon/Historical/air.html
BOM data for Bourke, as well as history and “missing data” graph (0 or 1)
I think the “missing data” graph is quite funny.
So much for “upgrading” the system. ;-)
https://i.postimg.cc/G2km1F7q/Bourke_AWS.png
https://i.postimg.cc/q7ZntYb8/Bourke_combo.png
https://i.postimg.cc/zXm15k4v/bourke_missing.png