Talk:Climate of Adelaide

Fork

Isn't this an excessive fork from the main article, I would suggest adding information to Adelaide at a similar level to Canberra, and redirecting this article there.--nixie 03:27, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

It was primarily transferred to get rid of that list. Other than that, what is in here is still in the Adelaide article. I'm hesitant to to integrate the list into the article because it really is not required - and it needlessly increases the article size. - G^t 03:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

But this is a pointless fork, include a link to the BOM adelaide page, pick one here, on the Adelaide page and this page can go. The data on the page is currently entirely unsourced which is also a problem.--nixie 11:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Also agree that this is a pointless fork. I love my weather data, but the notable details here should be in the main Adelaide article. Whats more, although the 2008 heatwave is interesting, its only a record against australian capital cities, thus not terribly notable. I think any of the sourced content should be merged back into the adelaide article, and this page deleted. Two stripe (talk) 11:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Recorded extremes

Besides in the last 31 years, on which dates/years were these temps recorded? JayKeaton (talk) 13:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

"Nine of the 10 warmest years ever recorded..."

I think this is misquoted from the source. The source seems to be talking global temperature not local. The BOM data while showing a trend toward hotter temperatures post 1980 or so does not appear to validate the assertion that "9 of the 10 hottest yearsin Adelaide occured since 2002" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.35.82.174 (talk) 02:49, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

The BoM's Annual climate statement 2018 (published 10 January 2019) states in the "Overview" section: "Only one of Australia's warmest ten years occurred before 2005, and nine of the last ten years have been warmer than average." Bahudhara (talk) 07:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

117.7 F in 1939

The record in 1939 is 117.7 F = 47.6 C. But some official BoM records refer to it as 46.1 C, e.g. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/statements/scs17.pdf . Is there an offset due to different weather stations? And perhaps we should mention that, since as I type, Adelaide has gone past the old record of 46.1. Adpete (talk) 03:30, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Presumably an adjustment was made by the BoM so as to ensure consistency in recording methodology over time - see Long-term temperature record: Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature (ACORN-SAT). Bahudhara (talk) 07:00, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

You're probably right, though some sort of comment from BoM would be nice, since the 117.7 F number is widely circulated. Adpete (talk) 22:16, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

I've added a footnote. Feel free to correct or improve it. Adpete (talk) 01:18, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

The 1939 highest temp still stands as BOM are yet to homogenize the raw data from 24th Jan 2019... as noted, expect the value to change within the next 2 months. Mantasledge (talk) 13:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Official Adelaide Reading

Adelaide's official weather station moved from Kent Town back to West Terrace in 2017 [1]. That means, for the highest maximum on 24-1-2019, the article should use the West Terrace reading of 46.6, not the Kent Town reading of 47.7. That is what is in the "Daily Weather Review" [2], and also secondary sources such as ABC news [3]. Adpete (talk) 22:16, 24 January 2019 (UTC)