October 2008 the second hottest after Oct 2003

[Jovial Monk]

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/res ... .html#temp

comments?

[mantra.]

These reports are very strange - I know we had the odd hot day in October, but overall the weather has been so much cooler. We haven't had the blistering day after day heat that we normally have around this time of year and the cicadas which normally emerge in November have failed to appear.

[skippy]

Russia is having its warmest winter since 1896, no snow 0-2 degree and quite balmy.

[Hebe]

It was bloody freezing down here and it still is.

[Jovial Monk]

Warming up a bit here, nights still cool.

That report covered Asia etc, not just Australia.

[mantra.]

Russia is having its warmest winter since 1896, no snow 0-2 degree and quite balmy.

It probably feels like a heatwave in Russia with temperatures like that.

It was bloody freezing down here and it still is.

Are you in Victoria Hebe?

I'm up from Sydney a bit and the weather is perfect. As Dita said - warming up a little, but cool nights. We've had just the right amount of rain - and storms have been light and passed through quickly. I hope it stays like this.

[Jovial Monk]

I would love about 10mm of rain to wet the garden down & fill rainwater tanks.

[boxy]

I'm no statistician, but the figures seem to be based on far too short a time of actual observational evidence, and extrapolated over a longer period.

"Consequently, the estimates below, while considered the best available, are still approximations and reflect the assumptions inherent in interpolation and data processing."

[mantra.]

I'm no statistician, but the figures seem to be based on far too short a time of actual observational evidence, and extrapolated over a longer period.

"Consequently, the estimates below, while considered the best available, are still approximations and reflect the assumptions inherent in interpolation and data processing

Hmmmm. You sound like Kevin Rudd boxy. What's that mean in English?

[skippy]

I'm no statistician, but the figures seem to be based on far too short a time of actual observational evidence, and extrapolated over a longer period.

"Consequently, the estimates below, while considered the best available, are still approximations and reflect the assumptions inherent in interpolation and data processing."

Does that mean the figures are wrong?