JoNova (Australia)
Hello Soviet style weather service? On January 3, 1909, an extremely hot
51.7C (125F) was recorded at Bourke. It’s possibly the hottest ever
temperature recorded in a Stevenson Screen in Australia, but the BOM has
removed it as a clerical error. There are legitimate questions about
the accuracy of records done so long ago — standards were different. But
there are very legitimate questions about the BOMs treatment of this
historic data. ‘The BOM has also removed the 40 years of weather
recorded before 1910, which includes some very hot times. Now we find
out the handwritten original notes from 62 years of the mid 20th
Century were supposed to be dumped in 1996 as well. Luckily, these
historic documents were saved from the dustbin and quietly kept in
private hands instead."
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