Adjusted! Another degree shaved off Darwins history — (at this rate, in 50 years Darwin won’t even be tropical)

Graham Lloyd and Jen Marohasy scorch through the BoMs latest revision of Darwin.

On the 1st of January 1910 the maximum temperature recorded at the Darwin post office was 34.2 degrees C, then it became 33.8 C, and now it was, is, 32.8 C. (What's the past tense of something that is now, but wasn't then? We don't even have grammar for this.)

Look what they've done to history Mum

The Bureau of Meteorology has no interest in the hot pre-1910 era which just gets chopped.  And even if they did include it, after they've adjusted it, it wouldn't be hot anymore anyway.

Remember the Federation Drought? No one else does either.

Temperature is whatever you want to make it.

Mean maximum annual temperatures as measured at the Darwin Post Office and airport shown with the new remodeled ACORN-SAT Version 2, which is the new official record for Australia.

"What the Bureau has done to the historical temperature record for Darwin is indefensible. " -- Marohasy

 

As Marohasy explains, Darwin matters because it had some of the best and earliest data for the vast northern reaches of Australia:

Graham Lloyd, The Weekend Australian --

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