Posted on 08/22/2010 12:48:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
With all the caterwauling over the record heat in Moscow over a few days due to a blocking high pressure zone, it would seem valuable to revisit a truly exceptional historical heatwave that occurred long before “global warming” became a buzzword.
From The Australian Bureau Of Meteorology, something the Aussies might remember and remind their MP’s of, given the recent downfall of labor to the climate policies they are pushing. It is still a stalemate, but it’s down to a few people.
From Wikipedia: The record for the longest heat wave in the world is generally accepted to have been set in Marble Bar in Australia, where from October 31, 1923 to April 7, 1924 the temperature broke the 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) benchmark, setting the heat wave record at 160 days.
CO2 was 305 ppm at the time. Imagine the press coverage if this happened now. From The Australian Bureau Of Meteorology:
The Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-24
source: http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/temp1.htm
“Day by day maximum temperatures at Marble Bar over the period 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924. At the peak of the heatwave – between late December and late February – many days approached or exceeded 45°C”.
The world record for the longest sequence of days above 100°Fahrenheit (or 37.8° on the Celsius scale) is held by Marble Bar in the inland Pilbara district of Western Australia. The temperature, measured under standard exposure conditions, reached or exceeded the century mark every day from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924, a total of 160 days.
Temperatures above 100°F are common in Marble Bar and indeed throughout a wide area of northwestern Australia. On average, Marble Bar experiences about 154 such days each year. The town is far enough inland that, during the summer months, the only mechanisms likely to prevent the air from reaching such a temperature involve a southward excursion of humid air associated with the monsoon trough, or heavy cloud, and/or rain, in the immediate area. This may sometimes be associated with a tropical cyclone or a monsoon low. In the record year of 1923-24 the monsoon trough stayed well north, and the season was notable for its lack of cyclone activity. (In fact, the entire Australian continent was untouched by tropical cyclones throughout the season, a rare event in the 20th Century). The rainfall recorded at Marble Bar during the record 160 days was just 79 mm, most of it in two heavy, short-lived storms that developed after the heat of the day. Only a further 12 mm of rain fell before the following December. Severe drought prevailed across the Western Australian tropics, and stock losses were heavy. With no rain to speak of, and minimal cloud, there was nothing to relieve day after day of extreme heat.
The highest temperature recorded during the record spell was 47.5°C on 18 January 1924. There have been higher temperatures at Marble Bar, with the highest recorded being 49.2°C, on 11 January 1905 and again on 3 January 1922. But temperatures in other Western Australian towns have been higher: in a remarkable late-season heat-wave in February 1998, Mardie recorded a maximum of 50.5°C (on the 19th) – the highest temperature in Western Australia, and the second highest ever recorded in Australia using standard instrumentation (Oodnadatta, in South Australia, recorded 50.7°C on 2 January 1960). Several other recordings above 49°C were reported in the northwest on the days preceding Mardie’s record, and at Nyang, the average maximum over the entire summer exceeded 43°C. As in 1923-24, very dry conditions accompanied the extreme heat.
h/t to Steven Goddard
With this website....reading the comments ...for those that have the time....will always be highly informative.......
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78 Responses to World’s Worst Heatwave – The Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-24.....so far.
... for temperatures above 0 degrees Centigrade ...
to be converted to Fahrenheit is to do C x 1.8 + 32 = F.
Thus 40 degrees C becomes 40 x ( 2 - 0.2) + 32 = 80 - 8 +32 = 104 degrees F...
Notice the use of ( 2 - .2 ) replacing 1.8 so that you can calculate it without use of a calculator.
Ponder that....
Someone from the AGW temple needs to address this.....
Here’s the formula to use, if you visit northern Canada or Alaska in the winter:
-40* C = -40* F
To convert -50* C to Fareinheit:
Take the difference from -40* — in this case -10* C
Multiply by 9/5 (or 1.8) = -18*F
Add (-40* F +(-18* F) = -58* F
■January 1896 - 437 people died ■January 1908 - 246 people died ■February 1921 - 147 people died ■January 1927 - 130 people died ■January 1939 - 438 people died ■February 1959 - 105 people died ■January 1973 - 26 people died ■February 1981 - 15 people died ■February 1993 - 17 people died ■February 2004 – 12 people died.
Hmm....Death valley will beat that every year...not that far away from here.
A few hours away via the Interstate 15.
Thanks.
In the pre-industrial era, horses were the primary source of power. Those heat waves must be attributed to equine flatulence.
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
That article takes Greenhouse Theory at face value and by the criterion set up in the theory itself finds no evidence of warming on the basis of greenhouse effect.
The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'
It Is Impossible For A 100 ppm Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Concentration To Cause Global Warming
Those four articles each show that Greenhouse Theory has no basis in reality due to a direct conflict with the known laws of physics. No wonder the smoking gun "hotspot" can't be found.
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
That article pretty much puts the kibosh on any serious trend of planetary warming from any cause. Think about it. If there is absolutely no sign at all of rising sea levels how could the planet be warming? Beyond the centuries long slow warming of the earth and rising of the seas of course. But that is only a few millimeters per century due to the inter-glacial period we are in.
A cold day is warmer than freezing?
hahaha. Good one.
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Jimbo says:
Too often we lose sight of the past and precedence of such events. Too often there is the conclusion that we experience “unprecedented heat waves”…… – Anthony
This is what I keep reminding alarmists about, the past:
Global death toll from extreme weather events is declining
http://www.thegwpf.org/the-observatory/1378-indur-m-goklany-global-death-toll-from-extreme-weather-events-declining.html
The world’s worst natural disasters going back 900 years
http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html
Top ten world’s worst natural disasters
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2009/01/29/top-ten-worst-natural-disasters.html
The world’s the deadliest nautural disasters recorded
http://www.armageddononline.org/the-worst-disasters.html
Disaster overview
http://www.deathreference.com/Da-Em/Disasters.html
Famines since 440 BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
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Epic disasters
http://www.epicdisasters.com/
Has There Been An Increase In the Number of Natural Disasters?
“So have there been more natural disasters in recent years? In a word, NO.
What we have, rather, is an increase in our ability to detect hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes.”
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Ten worst floods in history
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/flooding/tenworst.shtml
Five worst forest fires
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/forestfires/tenworst.shtml
Ten worst hurricanes in history
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/hurricanes/tenworst.shtml
Ten worst tornadoes in history
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/tornadoes/tenworst.shtml
Ten worst avalanches in history
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/avalanches/tenworst.shtml
Ten worst landslides in history
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/landslides/tenworst.shtml
Worst natural disasters in history
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/worstdisasters.shtml
That is handy....thanks.
Great work there.
I love the State....had an Aunt out around Grand Junction and Grand Mesa.
Man O man, I didn't realize there were so many famines.
Nope, born and raised in CO. I’m in Estes Park now and for most of the last 20+ years. Gosh, I haven’t been to Grand Mesa since I was about 5. I ought to go see that again.
Thanks for the ping!
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