The Australian Bureau of Meteorology got caught out cheating. They “corrected” temperature readings which went below 10C (14F). Luckily, their minister has “full confidence” in the BOM
BOM scandal: “smart cards” filter out coldest temperatures. Full audit needed ASAP!
In order to distract people and while pretending to do some something about it, they are replacing the weather stations. These weather stations are designed to work in places like the South Pole and the Outback. They measured the temperatures correctly and posted them online. Later, the software rounded up the readings. Nothing to do with faulty weather stations that need replacing.
Naturally, the media in Australia are taking hardly any notice of these events. They insist that last month, July, was the hottest “evah”. Total hogwash. Right now, we are having blizzard warnings in Victoria.
Victoria’s alpine areas are being pummelled by blizzard conditions, with heavy snowfalls setting in as a powerful cold front makes its way across the state
You have to go to the very bottom of our online newspaper to find any reference to this
Hailstorms forecast for city as blizzards sweep ski fields
If the temperature had been a little bit above average for this time of the year, the headline would have been “Heatwave”
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