Hottest overnight temperature on record in Melbourne
Well it seems to be occurring quite regularly, last night we had the Hottest overnight temperature on record in Melbourne at 32.3 degrees at 5.57am.
So by the time we started Boot camp at 6.00am it was almost at the temperature when we cancel the session.
It seems with climate change, we are experiencing these record breaking weather conditions with greater frequency, it was only in Spring last year that we experienced the warmest overnight temperature on record at 30 degrees at 6.00am
The current highest recorded daily minimum temperature (from midnight to 9.00am) was perviously 30.6 set in February 1902, so at 9.00am today, a teenee wenee bit warmer at 30.8.
So what’s next, 25 degrees overnight in Winter?
Hopefully Victoria will be ok with regards to the threat of catastrophic fires in the country areas with no more record breaking overnight minimum temperatures.




January 18th, 2012 at 7:51 am
I am curious to know – if the previous high was in 1902, how is this anything to do with global warming. Did they worry about it. Back then? Obviously not.
January 18th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
The whole thing about climate change/global warming is more about the overall volume of changes rather than isolated events, ie the changes in flooding Australia is experiencing and the frequency of these events.