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... On the morning of Thursday, May 27, New Zealand suffered a wave of historical cold.
A powerful Antarctica air mass brought the mercury plunging to -8.8C (16F) at Dunedin International Airport, which is located in the SE of the South Island at an elevation of 1.2 m (4 ft).
This reading ties the all time lowest temperature EVER recorded at the airport (set in both May 1988 and July 2007), in record books dating back to 1963.
According to NIWA
(New Zealand’s official meteorological agency),
-10.1C (13.8F) was recorded at Middlemarch,
a small town in the Otago region of the South Island
cited at an elevation of 213m (699 feet).
This is the town’s lowest autumn temperature since 2001.
An even lower reading was logged at Tara Hills, Otago 466 m (1,529 ft).
Here, a bone-chilling -10.8C (12.5 F) was logged.
Again, this is the weather station’s coldest ever reading in the month of May.
These are incredible lows, particularly for fall, particularly in this time of catastrophic global heating [sarc!].
NIWA said that many towns and cities suffered their lowest May temperatures this morning, and at low elevations, too — not that they explain exactly what they deem ‘low elevation.’
These are not only the first sub -10C readings of the year, but are also New Zealand’s coldest May temperatures since 2001, at least.
However, I’m sure it will be revealed that many more all-time records fell this morning as the preliminary data is verified.
GREENLAND UPDATE (of prior article):
Following on from yesterday’s article re the historic late-season surface mass balance gains on Greenland, the world’s largest island has now posted GAINS that have literally shot the SMB off the charts.
Looking below at the official numbers, courtesy of the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), it is revealed that single day gains of more than 12 gigatons were logged yesterday, May 26.
This is astonishing, unprecedented, and not only for late-May, but also for any time during the snow season.
Yesterday’s (May 26) monster SMB gain [DMI].
It’s unlikely to be a mistake, as it looks to continue the record gains obtained on the previous day; however, the DMI are prone to making the odd error, though usually in the other direction — they have been known to exaggerate warmth.
During the summer of 2019, the DMI admitted it wrongly reported a record high temperature in Greenland.
The institute said a “shocking” early-August temperature of between 2.7C (37F) and 4.7C (40.5F) was logged at the Summit weather station, located some 3,200 m (10,500 ft) ASL at the center of the Greenland ice sheet.
The news quickly spread to every corner of the left-leaning web.
However, just a few days later the DMI posted a tweet retracting that record temp, saying that after a “closer look” it was revealed that the monitoring equipment had been giving “erroneous results.”
By combining measurements with observations from other weather stations, the DMI then estimated that the temperature was more like -2C (28F) — quite a difference, and still only a guess.
“You could say that this is good news from a climate perspective,” Herdis Damberg, one of the Institute’s meteorologists told Danish state broadcaster DR.
“There are probably a lot of people wiping their foreheads saying that it’s pretty good that it wasn’t four degrees.”
In my opinion, Damberg is an idiot — an erroneous reading like this is terrible news from a climate perspective: the damage was done almost instantly when hundreds of MSM outlets, all proponents of the fake climate scare, leaped to publish the scary EOTW data.
In the end though, the DMI concluded that it was actually heavy snow (ironically) that had caused poor ventilation around the thermometers at the site, wrongly boosting the temperature." ...