Canberra’s coldest mornings since 1965

By On July 9, 2012 · 13 Comments
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Canberra has shivered through its coldest stretch of winter mornings in 47 years.

The mercury dropped to a chilly minus 4.8 degrees at 6.51am this morning, topping off eight consecutive mornings below minus 2.3 degrees.

The eight-day cold spell, with an average minimum temperature of minus 4.9, is the coldest string of July mornings since 1965. The all-time record was in July 1962, when the average temperature over an eight-day period was minus 7.

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2012/07/canberras-coldest-mornings-since-1965/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canberras-coldest-mornings-since-1965

Thanks to Robert van deLeur for this link

 
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13 Responses to Canberra’s coldest mornings since 1965

  1. Desert Dweller / David C. says:
    July 9, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Interesting…I recall 1962 was also known for some record cold winter readings months earlier in the northern hemisphere winter (-8F El Paso, -12F Las Cruces…neither in Montana or Vermont). I wonder what the solar activity was then?

    • F. Guimaraes says:
      July 13, 2012 at 8:25 am

      1962 was at the end of the strong cycle #19, the strongest of the XX century! The fact that temperatures were not reflecting the solar radiation immediately is a reflex of previous colder periods. In 1964-65 started cycle-20 which was much lower than the previous, but still much stronger than the present one.
      The present cycle-24 is even lower than cycle-14 at the beginning of the XX century, it compares to cycle-5 (Dalton minimum) or possibly the Maunder minimum 350 years ago.

  2. John the 1st says:
    July 9, 2012 at 9:27 pm

    Can anyone explain why solar flares are increasing in intensity? I realize there are fewer but the ones that are popping seem to be doozies.
    Any theories/explanations?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2170985/The-suns-solar-flares-getting-stronger–latest-hot-spot-size-15-Earths-strung-together.html

    • Ron Greer says:
      July 10, 2012 at 12:59 am

      John,
      We are approaching the solar maximum , and this kind of thing can be ‘expected’, but what is remarkable is that so far, this has been one of the feeblest solar maximums for a long time and it may be indicative of a longer and deeper solar minimum in the offing.

  3. Sharyn says:
    July 9, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    Unfortunately it wasn’t cold enough to get rid of the red witch our ‘Selected’ and unelected Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and her watermelon – green on the outside, red in the middle – communist cohorts, the Greens.

    • laurel says:
      July 10, 2012 at 5:13 am

      yeah, dammit all the pollies just broke up and went home. if a few of em had copped the extreme cold maybe theyd have rethunk warmist views..
      nah, slap me, they are TOO STUPID to do that in face of growing evidence of NO Warming..and too gutless to stand up and go against the LIAR and the greens obsession with hating all humans.

  4. Cheryl from Oz says:
    July 10, 2012 at 2:37 am

    Obviously the carbon (dioxide) tax is working. And we all thought Gillard and the Greens did not know what they were doing! /sarc off

  5. Dave Neff says:
    July 10, 2012 at 9:05 am

    I think 1962 was the last year of above ground nuclear test. After that the nuclear treaty between the West and the East required below ground testing. So all the nuclear powers at the time – USSR, USA, Britain, France, and China exploded several bombs. The result was a mini nuclear winter.

    • Italics Mine says:
      July 15, 2012 at 12:11 pm

      Just curious to know if all those silly macho games of exploding bigger and better nuclear bombs had any long-lasting effects to us (or anything else in the cosmos).

  6. SteveSadlov says:
    July 10, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    That little basin reminds me of Paso Robles or Ashland. Looks like the Wx is similar. When there is an (Ant)arctic outbreak the cold air really fills in. This looks like a pretty bad outbreak (really a series of them). It’s not all the far past the Solstice so unfortunately for the people of Australia the worst may be yet to come.

  7. F. Guimaraes says:
    July 13, 2012 at 8:10 am

    “… since 1965 …” is an important mark to keep in mind.
    The records show that temperatures used to be colder then and solar radiation too, so much that some people here have called those times “little ice age”, which technically speaking it was not.
    We have had 4 and 1/2 years of low solar radiation since 2008, even lower than then, and the temperatures are already going back to those levels, with the trends showing that soon they will be even lower.
    If we look in the direction of the Sun we’ll have all the essential answers about climate.


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