No doubt people in the media will be seizing on the high temperatures of today as evidence of global warming. One of the ironies of the global warming hysteria is that higher than normal temperatures are offered as "proof", while record lows are dismissed with the retort "weather isn't climate." I guess that's what you call an asymmetric argument.
I've been keeping more-or-less daily records since we arrived in Narrabri in 1991 and I just went back through my database, sorting through the August maxima. Our long term average maximum is 22 degrees. Here are the top dozen temperatures:
24/8/09 32
23/8/09 31
23/8/95 31
24/8/95 30
27/8/95 30
30/8/95 28
29/8/04 28
21/8/95 28
16/8/96 28
30/8/08 28
26/8/94 28
31/8/02 28
According to weatherzone.com the highest ever August temperature at Gunnedah was 31.1 in 1880. Given that temperatures in Narrabri are typically 1 or 2 degrees warmer than Gunnedah on any given day, that would indicate a temperature of about 32-33 degrees here on that day.
Of course all of this means absolutely nothing, but it is interesting nonetheless.
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