Historic Cold Sweeps Eastern Australia as an automatic weather station, which is almost always the coldest place in Australia, suddenly went "offline"

Source:

https://electroverse.net/historic-cold-sweeps-eastern-australia/

"Eastern Australia just woke to one of its coldest mornings in recorded history.

A teeth-chattering low of -7.2C (19F) was logged in sub-tropical Queensland (QLD) early Thursday, with many other of the state’s locales shivering through their lowest readings in more than 20 years.

Temperatures hit -4.4C (24.1F) in the town of Oakey, near Toowoomba — its coldest July morning since 2004.

And in Roma, Applethorpe and the Granite Belt, temperatures failed to climb above -4C (24.8F) before the sun came up.

The mercury also plunged across New South Wales (NSW).

In western and southern regions of the state, historic lows of -7C (19.4F) and -8 (17.6C) have been registered.

Missing Station Data 
    I would likely have been reporting on a new ALL-TIME July low this morning, or at least a record challenging one.

Conveniently though, and ahead of the arrival of this week’s powerful mass of polar cold, Thredbo Top Station – an automatic weather station that records observations every 10 minutes, which is almost always the coldest place in Australia– went offline.

Looking at the screen shot below, data from Thredbo Top Station is inexplicably missing from July 18 onward–just as the Antarctic blast entered the region.

On what was forecast to be Australia’s coldest July day in history, the coldest spot in Australia is missing from the observations:

Chalk this one up to ‘conspiracy theory’, I guess.

But what a convenient situation for the warm-mongering Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to find themselves in – who, upon contact, uttered some double-talk about using nearby stations as a proxy (the -9.3C (15.3F) at Perisher?),

but weren’t able to give an explanation as to why the coldest place in Australia is missing observations on the coldest July day in decades, potentially ever."