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BOM – Australian Climate Extremes

January 10, 1939 Melbourne was 44ºC. Yesterday it was 22ºC. If this trend continues, Melbourne will be covered with glaciers before the Labor Party gets their next Prime Minster.

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Boulder is surrounded by open space, is growing slowly, and has been cooling since 1950. By contrast, Fort Collins population has increased by more than 10X since 1950, and has warmed several degrees.

Both cities have been cooling over the past 15 years.

The drought of 1914-15 became seared in the memory of Australians, primarily due to the disastrous failure of the wheat crop that year.

The first signs of drought became evident in 1913, when rainfall in western Victoria, central areas of Tasmania, and settled areas of South Australia, was well below average in the normally wet April-July period. Timely rain in early spring then saved the wheat crop and gave good pastoral prospects. But there was to be no such respite the following year, a strong El Niño year. 1914 started off very hot, and southern Victoria suffered from widespread bushfires in February and March. Good rains fell over most of eastern Australia in March and April, but thereafter extremely dry conditions set in over most of the southern half of the country.

Except in coastal NSW, drought became widespread and severe from July to October. Across large areas of the southern states the period May through October 1914 remains the driest such period on record. As conditions worsened, stock were transported as fast as the railways could carry them to more favoured locations, where – naturally – prices for agistment rose substantially. From the Deniliquin district alone over half a million sheep, and thousands of horses and cattle, were moved out. Rivers throughout southeastern Australia fell to extremely low levels. The Murray River at Echuca fell to its lowest level ever recorded to that time, to just 2 percent of its normal flow by December. Downstream of Swan Hill the Murray was reduced to a series of stagnant pools.

By the end of October the national wheat crop was a total failure. In southwestern Australia – often spared when drought afflicts the eastern states – less than half the normal rainfall fell during the critical May-October period, leading to complete crop failure in some districts, and easily the lowest Western Australian wheat yield of the century.

BOM – Australian Climate Extremes-Drought

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December/January so far, is the coldest in the US in 35 years and 4th coldest on record, with no trend since 1895.

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www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_chapter_09.pdf

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Looks like alarmists have a little bit of catching up to do.  188 record minimums and 13 record maximums so far in 2014.