"I haven't heard any claims beating this in this supposed summer of all summers", was the message in an email from a reader of this blog and this link that includes:
"There are a small number of towns in Australia whose names have such a potency and such a power of association that they automatically conjure up images. The name 'Marble Bar' is synonymous with mining, isolation and, most importantly, heat.
It is known as 'the hottest town in Australia' a fact which is still recorded by the Guinness Book of Records. For 161 consecutive days to 20 April 1924 the temperature in the town never dropped below 100F (37.8C). This record still stands after nearly seventy years.
And they wouldn't have had airconditioning back in 1924.
As the newcomer to hell said to the devil "Don't try scaring me with hellfire - I'm from Marble Bar".
The statement that the temperature in Marble Bar Western Australia never went below 37.8C in that period in 1924 is incredible because then it never cooled at night
I had been previously informed on that issue of records that many of those old instruments may have had exposure problems. So the famous Cloncurry record measurement is "under review" as Blair Trewin indicates. See reference above. If it's a pub bet as records can be - it's worth emailing the Bureau's National Climate Centre for up-to-date advice their own website notwithstanding.
Again I also say it is well worth reading the following advice on the issue of records (including the comments).
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=175
I am not sure of your point Phil; are you saying that records could be inaccurate?
Caveat:
There are also numerous extreme high temperatures which have been recorded prior to about 1910 using non-standard instrumentation, most notably a reading of 53.1 at Cloncurry in January 1889. It is likely that this will be struck from the official record in the near future. A discussion of the evidence behind this may be found in:
Trewin, B.C. (1997). Another look at Australia's highest temperature. Aust.Met.Mag. 46. 251-256.
(Trewin works for the Bureau !)
http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~blair/extremes/staterecord.html
1.10 EXTREME MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES
New South Wales Wilcannia 50.0
Phil,
I have never stated that "all climate variability will cease" which makes you the nitwit not I.
Louis - are you utterly crazy at crazyworld. Have a look at the maximum and minimum temperature maps for that period. Ask anyone in the street what they think. They might say most of the place seems to have warmed.
If you think CO2 will warm everything equally everywhere and all climate variability will cease you're a nitwit.
CO2 hotpots - are you smoking that Amsterdam hooch?
Ironic,
one selects 1970 to present of the BOM Australia Temperature and we get a hotspot at the QLD/NSW/SA border, plus a cooling in WA.
Definitely a warming unrelated to CO2 but clearly something associated with a geological input.
This is the danger you face phil when you start goading people with your inanities - instead of glossing over your rants we suddenly decide tio look into it lot more closely only to find that Phil has shot himself in his foot again.
Unless of course that part of OZ has a peculiar concetration of CO2 at that locality.
I would rather suspect it might be due to a subsurface hotspot.
This should give you enough data to gallop off on another of your petulant rants?