Cold outbreak nearly breaks unusual record
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| Well below normal temperatures occurred across most of northern Australia this morning. |
The late May cold outbreak came close to breaking an unusual record today. Each day, the maximum temperature is measured at over 600 stations across the nation, including many in the tropical north. It is a rare event when not a single station records a maximum of 30 or above, yet that happened on each of the 6 days from 30 May to 4 June, a run unprecedented in a record check back to 1967 undertaken by Bureau climatologist Blair Trewin. Today's highest temperature, 28.2 recorded at Horn Island, Queensland, is the second lowest national high temperature in the record books since the tropical observing network became reasonably comparable in 1967. Only 20 June 1995 produced a lower figure, when the national highest maximum was 28.0 recorded at Weipa and Palmerville on Cape York Peninsula.
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