Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes

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Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes

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Re: Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes

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For those who have not seen the NIWA report on the Ranfurly temperature in 1903, see the link below. It is a fantastic reconstruction of the events leading up to this very cold night.

https://wmo.asu.edu/sites/default/files ... report.pdf
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Simon Culling wrote:For those who have not seen the NIWA report on the Ranfurly temperature in 1903, see the link below. It is a fantastic reconstruction of the events leading up to this very cold night.

https://wmo.asu.edu/sites/default/files ... report.pdf
Comprehensive to say the least Simon, I read it from top to bottom and it's clear to see why the -25.6C was accepted without question, very thorough!!
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Very interesting, but maybe I'm just a little bit stupid, but is the majority of the article talking about the 1895 event or the 1903 event? I assume it's the latter, but reading the article, I'm not so sure.
I usually consider myself to have a reasonable level of comprehension, but that article confused me somewhat. But I guess maybe that's why I didn't major in English....
The last weather event with a date quoted including the year is the 1895 event, with following references to dates only using the month.....
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yeah, it is a bit confusing in that respect.its talking about both, but its not always clear which you are reading about..until a few more paragraphs and you go, ah, its that one I am now reading about...lol
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Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes

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Both good reads. That one you linked Brian is definitely a bit hard to follow about which event they are talking about. But having read the NIWA one it is defiantly all the same event.
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It's pretty obvious that what were intitially taken to be Tmax readings at Eweburn were not such - I looked at the CliFlo records before this paper was presented at a conference and the "step change" that occurred later was very clear.
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