On January 13, 1939, The Sydney Morning Herald reported:
‘Based on officially recorded maximum temperatures … the registration of 124 degrees (51.1°C) at White Cliffs was the highest recorded in New South Wales since the record for the State, 125 degrees (51.7°C) was made at Bourke in 1909.’
Yet, if you look at BOM’s current records for ‘New South Wales Climate Extremes’, these heat records of the past have disappeared – and nothing 50°C or over is listed.
Amazing. Even the famous magician David Copperfield would have trouble pulling off a stunt like that.
Read more at Spectator AU
Good old BOM, tinkering with the facts as usual. Computers are so very convenient, just change what fits your current ideas and most surely never tell the truth to the public. After all lying is so in vogue these days, let’s ignore history and just go on pretending, change it on the computer and that will certainly make it never have happened. My eldest son and I had a discussion on this last weekend about keeping our our mid 1980’s Encyclopedia Britannica just so we can actually read accurate history, not a current version of it online.