Temperatures

How accurate is the official temperature history for your city or town? Statistical analysis of 3 years of maximum temperature data for Brisbane airport shows the temperatures recorded from the probe in an automatic weather station are … [Read more...] about Bureau Releases Limited Parallel Data from Brisbane Airport

Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology first heard on 3rd February in Brisbane. Unfortunately, mediation has not yet ended, and so there … [Read more...] about March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded

My good friend Patrick Lloyd, enamoured with the new Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT, sent me maximum temperatures for Tasmania as individual annual averages of all the daily values for all 155 weather stations since 1882. He had downloaded these … [Read more...] about Re-imaging Tasmania’s Temperature History, Part 1

A few years ago, I reported that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology changed a minimum temperature at the official Goulburn weather station from a very chilly minus 10.4C to a chilly minus 10.0C on Sunday 2nd July 2017. After we protested, the … [Read more...] about Legacy Electronics Botch Temperature Recordings Across Australia (Part 1)

John William Abbot versus Director of Meteorology was to be heard in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Brisbane, yesterday, Friday 3rd February 2023 – a focus of this series of blog posts. While it was to be a public hearing, and I was to be the … [Read more...] about Hyping Maximum Daily Temperatures (Part 4)

If maximum temperatures are the same, whether measured by platinum resistance probes or mercury thermometers, why does the Bureau make an adjustment of 0.5 °C in the homogenisation of temperatures from Cape Otway Lighthouse? On Friday (3rd … [Read more...] about Hyping Maximum Daily Temperatures (Part 3)