Hottest Day Ever in Australia Confirmed: Bourke 51.7°C, third January 1909
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Weblog
July 10, 2020 By jennifer
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was lengthy thought to be the most well liked day ever recorded in Australia – Bourke’s 125°F (51.7°C) on the third January 1909. This file* was deleted, falsely claiming that this was seemingly some type of ‘observational error’, as no different official climate stations recorded excessive temperatures on that day.
Nevertheless, Craig Kelly MP has visited the Australian Nationwide Archive at Chester Hill in western Sydney to view very outdated meteorological statement books. It has taken Mr Kelly MP some months to trace down this historic proof. By entry to the archived e book for the climate station at Brewarrina, which is the closest official climate station to Bourke, it could possibly now be confirmed that a temperature of 50.6°C (123°F) was recorded at Brewarrina for Sunday third January 1909. This completely contradicts claims from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology that solely Bourke recorded an awfully extreme temperature on that day.
Brewarrina Meteorological Observations E-book, January 1909 — photographed by Craig Kelly MP. Be aware 123F recorded at 9am on 4th January 1909.
Simply immediately, Friday 10th July 2020, Mr Kelly MP obtained entry to this file for Brewarrina, the closest official climate station to the official climate station at Bourke.
He has photographed the related web page from the observations e book, and it exhibits 123°F was recorded at 9am on the morning of Monday 4th January 1909 – revealed right here for the primary time. This was the very best temperature within the earlier 24 hours and corroborates what should now be recognised as the most well liked day ever recorded in Australia of 51.7°C (125°F) levels at Bourke on the afternoon of Sunday third January 1909.
The Meteorological Observations E-book for Bourke for January 1909 information 125°C for third January. Photograph taken on 26th June in 2014 on the Chester Hill archive by Jennifer Marohasy.
That the Bureau of Meteorology denies these file scorching days is a travesty. Is it as a result of these information contradict their perception in catastrophic human-caused international warming?
The temperature of 50.6°C (123°F) recorded again in 1909 which is greater than 100 years in the past, photographed by Mr Kelly immediately on the Nationwide Archives in Chester Hill, is sort of equal to the present official hottest day ever for Australia of 50.7 levels Celsius at Oodnadatta on 2nd January 1960. These are the truth is solely the fourth and third hottest days recorded in Australia, respectively.
Not solely has Mr Kelly MP tracked-down the meteorological observations e book for Brewarrina, however over the past week he has additionally uncovered that 51.1°C (124°F) was recorded at White Cliffs for Wednesday 11th January 1939. That is the second hottest ever!
The proof, from the related web page of the White Cliff’s meteorological observations e book, is revealed right here for the primary time.
This photograph from the White Cliffs Meteorological Remark E-book exhibits the second hottest temperature ever recorded in Australia utilizing customary tools in a Stevenson display.
Till the efforts of Mr Kelly MP, this second hottest-ever file was hidden in undigitised archives.
It is just via the persistence of Mr Kelly to know the temperatures in any respect the official climate stations within the neighborhood of Bourke that this and different scorching days have been found.
If we’re to be trustworthy to our historical past, then the file scorching day at Bourke of 51.7°C (125°F) should be re-instated, and additional the very popular 50.6°C (123°F) recorded for Brewarrina on the identical day should be entered into the official databases.
Additionally, the temperature of 51.1°C (124°F) recorded at White Cliffs on 12th January 1939 should be recognised because the second hottest ever.
For these temperatures to be denied by the Bureau as a result of they occurred up to now, earlier than catastrophic human-caused international warming is assumed to have come into impact, is absurd.
At a time in world historical past when Australians are elevating considerations in regards to the Chinese language communist social gathering eradicating books from Libraries in Hong Kong, we must be equally involved with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology eradicating temperature information from our historical past.
If international warming is certainly the best ethical subject of our time, then each Australian no matter their politics and their opinion on greenhouse gases and renewable energies, should be trustworthy to historical past and these truths.
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* This temperature (125°F/51.7°C on the third January 1909) was recorded at an official Bureau climate station and utilizing a mercury thermometer in a Stevenson display. Hotter temperatures have been recorded in 1896 however the mercury thermometers weren’t in Stevenson screens, which is taken into account the usual for housing recording tools.
The function picture exhibits Craig Kelly MP at The Australian Nationwide Archive, Chester Hill, simply immediately inspecting the Brewarrina Meteorological Observations e book.
I’ve beforehand blogged on the file scorching day at Bourke being deleted by the Bureau right here:
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/02/australias-hottest-day-record-ever-deleted/
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