Heat records for September set at many places in NSW and VIC

Last weekend was dominated by the breaking of record high maximum temperatures for September. 61 recording stations in NSW and 35 recording stations in Victoria had their hottest September day on record; some places have had over 120 years of records and few other places had their coldest September morning on record only a week beforehand.

Temperature records tumbled throughout
 Victoria and New South Wales last weekend.

Quite a few other stations broke their previous September record by two degrees. In Victoria Mildura took the prize with a reading of 37.7 as the highest ever September temperature recorded in the State, followed closely by Echuca, 36.0, Swan Hill also 36.0.

In NSW Wilcannia took the State's prize with a reading of 40.5 as the highest ever September temperature, followed by White Cliffs, 40.3 , and then Bourke with 40.0 degrees . No place in NSW has ever recorded 40 degrees during any September in the last 140 years. Walgett's 39.2 broke a September record which had stood since 1882.

Read Peter Nelson’s story on Country News - “Heat records for September set at many places in NSW and VIC.”

'Farce' believers not observing world events or the science

Those who describe global warming as a “farce” are obviously not taking any note of what is happening around the world or what the science says.

Writing in a story headed: “The Planet Just Had Its Warmest August On Record” The Huffington Post says the latest readings continue a series of record or near-record breaking months.

Climatologist and climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr. Gavin Schmidt, told The Post that while the agency's data does indicate that this August was the hottest on record, the difference falls within a few hundredths of a degree compared with previous Augusts.

“Schmidt cautioned against focusing on any one month or year, but instead on the fact that "the long-term trends are toward warming." A very hot August, he said, is just one piece of the data that "point[s] towards the long-term trends," The Post reported.