The maximum temperature today in Brisbane was 24 degrees C.
The historical average maximum temperature in May in Brisbane is 23.2 degrees C. This year, every day in May except one (Sunday 28 May) has had a maximum temperature above the May average. On Sunday the maximum was exactly equal to the average.
As of today the average maximum temperature for May this year is 25.1 degrees C. The forecast for tomorrow is for a maximum of 24 degrees C.
Last year the average maximum in May was 24.7 degrees C, and three days were below the historical average maximum.
All figures courtesy of the Bureau of Meterology.
Point taken, Paul, but it’s gorgeous weather I must say!
For rainfall they give the 9 and 1 decile amounts as well. Its a shame it doesn’t quote the same for the average temperatures so you can get some sense of how extreme a particular months result is.
enjoy it, Paul.
By the way global temps stopped going up 1998.
JC, 1998 was the warmest year on record, but the next five warmest have been since then, suggesting that it is more likely that 1998 is an outlier. The trend is still pretty strongly rising.
Steve;
Which trend are we talking about here? The trend from since records were kept, 150 years ago or for the last 2 billion years since earth being a ball for fire?
Getting into perspective using temps for the last 150 as a indicator of a trend is pretty gutsy from any perspective.
it’s 2,000,000,000
= 1
_____________ ___
150 x
13,333,333.33
that is 13,333,333.33 150 year periods in the life of the earth.
One can’t deny C02 forcing, but I would be putting all my bets on that indicator, would you?
sorry didn’t come out the way it looked
2,0000,000
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150
= 1/x
The weather was gorgeous today, The Gold Coast Beaches were just `special’, but I appreciate what you are saying and `The Issue of Global Warming’. is a concern for us all. Looking forward to Al Gores new movie, hopefully that will make an impact on American voters.
Somebody should point Jennifer Marohasy to this thread. Apparently one cold May morning in Bris Vegas refutes the general consensus among reasonable people that global warming is real.
Speaking of which, it’s 2.5C here at the moment – and I’m in Queensland too…
The nights have been very cool, but that goes with the change in the weather patterns. Much drier than usual and no cloud, so we get night time temperatures normally associated with the end of June/July.
Yes, Kim, “dry air low in water vapour… allows rapid escape of long wave infra red and maximum rate of cooling at night” (according to a commenter on Marohasy’s site.)
JC if you want to play around with really long-term trends, why don’t you recognize the warming trend starting from 600-700 million years ago, when the earth was a snowball and we had sea ice at the equator. We’re clearly heading for boiling point again when the rain won’t fall because it is steam!
Paul, it worries me that the figures you refer to are from the Bureau’s Regional Office roof. I’m not sure where exactly it is but I assume it is near the CBD. Over time the temperatures could be distorted by the heating associated with city buildings.
Also I’ve noticed that the minimum for the city given on the news is between those for the airport and Ipswich, which is much colder. That is the case for much of the year, but in the colder months the city has the highest minimum of the three. Not sure whether the same pattern applies to the maxima.
Bloody cold tonight, at any rate!
-6 in my neck of Southern Queensland this morning. Marohasy’s right – global warming’s bunk!
“By the way global temps stopped going up 1998.”
No they didn’t. See http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8634