"Swathes of Australia have registered an unusually cold month of June, particularly Western Australia.
Perth –capital and largest city of the state of Western Australia— is shivering through one its coldest starts to winter on record following the invasion of a string of polar cold fronts tossed-up from Antarctica.
Data from the warm-mongering Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) show the mean temperature for June –a combination of maximums and minimums
– was just 12.9C (55.2F) — a reading which makes this the second coldest June ever recorded, and the coldest for 26 years–since 1995 (solar minimum of cycle 22).
Bureau climatologist Yanhui Blockley said the anomalously-low mean was driven by a powerful cold air mass in late June that was dragged up from the Antarctic.
“[It] brought a period of not just cold nights,” said Blockley, “but daytime temperatures in the mid-teens.”
The mass of cold polar air led to a string of record-breaking nights where the registered lows were among the coldest on record for the city — Perth Airport, for example, dropped to 0.5C (32.9F) on June 21, its lowest mark since 2015.
Freezing lows were felt elsewhere across the state, with towns in the Central Wheatbelt, and Great Southern regions all regularly plunging into sub-zero territory (C) throughout the month.
Many regions –too many to list here– also experienced their coldest June average maximum temperatures on record, these included the Wheatbelt town of Dalwallinu, the World Heritage Site of Shark Bay, and the eastern Wheatbelt town of Lake Grace.
In June, the Perth metro recorded 5 consecutive nights where temps dropped below 5C ...
With regards to rainfall –a hot topic Down Under– despite a dry June, overall figures for the year are “looking healthy”, reports abc.net.au.
Year to date rainfall stats for Western Australia show it’s been an average to above-average year for most of the state; but those cunning climate alarmists have all bases covered:
the flooding that occurred in Western Australia’s north this month – where a heavy cloud band released nearly a years’ worth of rain in the space of hours over the town of Exmouth – is just as much a sign of CAGW as the drought-conditions in Southwest."