Coldest in Australia in 21 years

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Coldest in Australia in 21 years - 18 Jul 07 - New South Wales woke to
another chilly day on Wednesday. Helped by fresh to strong winds, temperatures
in Sydney are forecast to reach just 13C, making it the coldest day of the year so far.
However, Wednesday morning wasn't as cold as Tuesday, when city temperatures
dropped to a 21-year low.

Further inland there was snow as well as ice.

The Great Western Highway closed on Wednesday morning on a 50km stretch
between Wallerawang, near Lithgow, and Raglan, near Bathurst, because of icy conditions.

The Mid-Western Highway between Bathurst and Blayney was closed because of snow
and ice, and in the Oberon area, half a dozen roads closed for the same reason, including
the route from Oberon to the Kanangra Walls National Park.

No relief from the cold weather can be expected in the next few days, with Sydney
temperatures forecast to rise no higher than 14 degrees until Sunday.
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx ... ame=401003

[caneman]

Coldest in Australia in 21 years - 18 Jul 07 - New South Wales woke to
another chilly day on Wednesday. Helped by fresh to strong winds, temperatures
in Sydney are forecast to reach just 13C, making it the coldest day of the year so far.
However, Wednesday morning wasn't as cold as Tuesday, when city temperatures
dropped to a 21-year low.

Further inland there was snow as well as ice.

The Great Western Highway closed on Wednesday morning on a 50km stretch
between Wallerawang, near Lithgow, and Raglan, near Bathurst, because of icy conditions.

The Mid-Western Highway between Bathurst and Blayney was closed because of snow
and ice, and in the Oberon area, half a dozen roads closed for the same reason, including
the route from Oberon to the Kanangra Walls National Park.

No relief from the cold weather can be expected in the next few days, with Sydney
temperatures forecast to rise no higher than 14 degrees until Sunday.
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx ... ame=401003

Yet, another great reason why we probably need many more years of research to see if GW is in fact just the cyclical nature of Earth.

[x-y-no]

Local does not equal global.

Local or regional cold anomalies do not in any way change the fact that the global average continues to trend warmer.

[caneman]

:roll:

Local does not equal global.

Local or regional cold anomalies do not in any way change the fact that the global average continues to trend warmer.

True about local doesn't equal global, however, this is pretty significant and not to be discounted. We're talking about a continent here and lends credence to a thoery that in the next 5 to 10 years we could be headed for a cyclical cooing down.

[x-y-no]

Why would it lend credence to that?

And it is of course not "discounted." It's included in the global average along with everything else.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Record low temps in Australia - 19 Jul 07 - Southeast Queenslanders
awoke to a record-breaking cold morning.
The Bureau of Meteorology said temperatures fell to a record low at Brisbane
Airport shortly after sunrise, with a temperature of -0.1C.

The previous record for the airport was 0.6 degrees, recorded in 1971 and 1994.

Elsewhere in the region, Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane, recorded a low of -4.8
degrees, just 0.1 degree short of the lowest temperature recorded there, in 1995