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
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
https://wmo.asu.edu/sites/default/files ... report.pdf
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Re: Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes
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!!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
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Re: Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes
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.Manukau heads obs wrote:https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/broken-re ... ken+Record
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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Re: Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes
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
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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Re: Great read re past cold snaps and record breaking freezes
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.