The Puffington Host is still talking about the historic drought in Australia, which the BOM shows as affecting almost 3% of the country over the last three years.
But it sure has been hot there, with two thirds of the country below normal for the last three months.
My personal weather station (horribly sited, made in China etc. etc) is showing this year in Sydney to be running cooler by a degree or so than last year. But weather isn’t climate…
However, I’m seeing a weather pattern I last saw back in the mid 70’s… lots of rain (LOTS of rain), overcast days and things generally cooler.
Welcome back, La Nina.
definately cooler at this time than any other year,lots of lovely rain,sunshiny days the weather is absolutely beautifull,if you listen to the mins there allways less than they ever were.
Wrong. You’re looking at Maximum anomaly’s only.
The Minimum Anomaly shows 3/4 of the country above normal. About 1/2 of the country more than 1 degree above normal.
Interesting indeed.
Yea, it sure gets “hot” at night these days.
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midnight moon.
Of course the minimums have been high. Most of the last three months has had >50% cloud cover at night over Sydney. There has been heaps of clouds and rain during the day.
But then what do I know? I live here and stick my head out the window each day. Maybe I need to be running a Global Climate Model to tell me what the weather should be, so as to conform to the
Global WarmingClimate ChangeClimate Disruption dogma.right on Neil,theres been so many name changes this last one (disruption)sounds rediculous.The fire warnings are now (catastrophic) soooooo scary.
You’re looking at night time temps? That’s when UHI has its greatest effect.
Amino says:
HAHAHAHAHAHA FUNNIEST COMMENT OF THE DAY!!
UHI? Not too familiar with where our major cities are located are you?
Have another look.
Night temp anomaly
Australian Population Distribution
The higher anomalies are in the remotes parts of Australia.
You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried!!
Brendon says:
October 19, 2010 at 10:49 am
Brendon, you imply a negative correlation here, but looking at your two maps, I’d say at best there’s no correlation at all. Have you run any quantitative comparisons to provide evidence for your claim?
For instance, you say the higher anomalies are in the remote parts, but clearly some of the higher anomalies also cover more populated areas.
Really, the only areas supporting your claim of a negative correlation are the southern regions, particularly the southwesternmost region.
What’s funny about this is that often the situation may be backwards from what most people think:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/03/spencer-using-hourly-surface-dat-to-gauge-uhi-by-population-density/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/04/spencers-uhi-vs-population-project-an-update/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/10/spencer-global-urban-heat-island-effect-study-an-update/
Basically, the highest warming rates are in more rural locations.
-Scott
Scott says:
Yeah. I’d tend to agree.
I won’t try to defend my comment that Amino “couldn’t be more wrong if you tried!!”, because I do believe he could be a little bit more more wrong if he really tried his best.
Brendon says:
October 20, 2010 at 1:53 am
Yeah, I pretty much agree with that, LOL.
Brendon it is late August here in Australia and there is snow in Goulburn,i had to have 3 blankets on the other night this is unheard of.i personally will not be arming myself up for warming but preparing for the cold,
i meant october not august,sorry!
Why would anyone go to a government site to back up there answers,you really need to go to more reliable sites.Well before the government sites there is so much real data out there im happy to send some files on the real data thats available before the warmest got the dirty hands on it.
Um, ok. Sydney is one small part of Australia, which is one small part fo the world, but I guess you know that.
So the positive feedback of clouds at night are great enough to more than offset the daytime anomalies.
Good find Neil!
Brendon says:
October 19, 2010 at 4:13 am
Um, ok. Sydney is one small part of Australia
3% is a small part of Australia. But global warming advocates, who, it appears, don’t have anything else to do, say it’s the beginning of the end of the world.
3% of the country? Sounds normal.
But no!! It’s the falling acorn.
Since this part of Australia is nearest the equator this yellow is probably left over warmth from El Nino:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5929/capture1czg.png
With La Nina beginning to take over that area those colors won’t be the same next year at this time.
But the warmists will pull out their different colored crayons. Watch and see.
We now know that all the gages have been relocated to ! next to air cons ! ashphalt or cemented areas,hot water outlets even under the path flight of planes as they take off,cmon lets get real,
Amino tell me if im wrong and anyone else as well
there is no more water/no less water then the beginning of time it simply moves,a dam is built,more ice less ice,movement of islands,one of the poles at one time had no ice so thats why you can find seashells on high mountains they were once underwater!
Our local weather woman here in Adelaide quoted September 2010 as the coldest September in 17 years. It looks like October 2010 could be just as cold. We’ve had lots of rain as well and our reservoirs are full. Just in time for the mega expensive Desal plant to come on-line.
Watering restrictions are being partially lifted starting in December. I would think that the city elders would want to lift all the restrictions and get people to using water at a much greater rate than historical so they can justify the Desal plant before it becomes known as a White Elephant.
I agree,these plants are unneccessary,we just need some holes in the ground to save the rain,too simple,
I lived in Adelaide for 8 years it gets so hot there it burns your nostrils,very uncomfortable.
Yea that’s really funny, made me realise that if we average the water table over a hundred years that’s fine as well. We’ll have to get the drought relief back from the farmers for the last three years.
I feel for the farmers even though they have paid to receive water they never have and yet the government wants to turn us against them for (wasting our water) on what our food production,they should have access at all times,if the gov had said to us hey listen were in a drought but the farmers need the water to grow food and could you all use less i feel everyone would have complied with that instead they are trying to turn us against each other with there silly demands.
Great article, why do they put the #$^@$#%@#^@ dams where it never rains?
Amazing!
If you have foxtell just go to weather and put in your postcode to get dam levels for your area check out the dam levels for all states,perth 98% full,queensland,Adelaide,melbourne,all high levels just poor old NSW about 40% dam level what does that tell you.