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Saturday, May 18, 2019

Albany, Australia weather station fraud -- authorities "lose" and "abuse" temperature data for record cold day ... to report a warmer month of April 2019

The southern coastal city 
of Albany, Australia, 
was "robbed" of 
its lowest (coldest) ever 
April maximum temperature,
5 degrees C. lower (cooler)
than the prior record in 2014
at the same location !

Albany Airport is an 
ACORN weather station 
that contributes to the 
Australia national average.

The BoM’s official average 
maximum temperature 
at the airport for April 2019, 
without any listing shown
for April 19th, 2019 
is 22.2°C. 

If the 10.4°C 
for 19th April 
was included, 
rather than "lost",
the April average 
would have been 21.5°C.,
0.7 degrees C. cooler

Meaning that the
Australian Bureau 
of Meteorology's 
convenient "loss"
of the coldest April day 
ever recorded at the
Albany Airport, 
made that weather
station's monthly 
average +0.7°C 
warmer than 
it really was.






























On April 19, 2019, 
Bluff Knoll, to the 
north of Albany, 
experienced its 
earliest recorded 
snowfall,  while 
Albany Airport 
was experiencing 
its coldest April day 
ever.

Half hourly observations 
screenshot (last chart)
shows the airport 
thermometer 
struggled to get 
to a 10.4°C maximum 
at 11am, on April 19, 2019.

Maybe a few decimal 
points higher, sometime 
between the 9.0°C at 10.30am 
and 8.9C at 11.28am.





10.4°C was 
the lowest
April maximum 
ever recorded
at Albany. 

The prior
records were 
   12.2°C 
in 1928 at 
Albany township 
dating back 
to 1907, 

   15.4°C 
in 2014 at the 
current Albany 
Airport, and 

   12.9°C
in 1970 at the 
previous airport 
screen that operated 
from 1965 to 2014.




Bureau of Meteorology "lost" 
those cold observations, 
and Climate Data Online shows 
no maximum temperature 
for Albany Airport on April 19,
or the following four days.

Lowest April maximum temperature 
records were set at currently operating 
weather stations in Rocky Gully, 
North Walpole, Shannon, Katanning, 
Bridgetown, Lake Grace, Collie East 
and Busselton Aero.






Over the three nights 
from April 20th to April 23rd, 
many new April 
minimum temperature 
records were set
at currently operating 
weather stations 
in Rocky Gully, Ongerup, 
Katanning and Newdegate, 
( with North Walpole having 
its coldest ever night at 
6.3°C on April 20th, but then 
setting a new record at 6.2°C 
the following night, April 21, 2019 )

There was no media mention 
of these record cold days and nights.

Record hot Australian days and nights 
always get lots of media attention.





Further south, 
in the city of Albany 
itself, someone 
also "forgot" to take 
temperatures 
on April 19, 2019
on what was 
very likely 
the city’s 
coldest ever 
April day,

Instead the BOM 
has inserted 25.1°C
for April 19,
perhaps copied 
from April 18
at the airport:








The true maximum temperature 
in the City of Albany on April 19th 
is unknown, but it wasn’t 25.1°C. !



Albany Airport had no ( "lost"? )
observations from April 20th 
to April 23rd.

If the Albany airport had 
the same daily maxima 
as Albany itself, 
on those days
(14.5°C, 20.4°C, 24.9°C, 21.1°C), 
Albany Airport's
ACORN weather station
April maximum 
would have been 21.3°C, 
which is 0.9°C cooler 
than the official 
monthly average 
maximum of 22.2°C.

In summary,
Two locations have been robbed 
of their coldest ever April day:
 – Albany Airport ,where there 
is no temperature for April 19th,
and 
-- The City of Albany, with a 
fictitious 25.1°C.,
at least +14 degrees C. hotter 
than the nearby Albany Airport
on the same day, 
based on real time screenshots 
of data now claimed to be "missing" !