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The CP2 Research radar was a 1970's era radar, which the BoM received as a gift from the NCAR in the United States. The BoM retrofitted it with modern parts which gave it the unique ability to collect data at two frequencies, S and X band. The upgrades also provided state of the art dual polarisation and doppler technologies.
During the heat wave, several records were broken; Tasmania recorded its highest-ever temperature; 42.2 °C (108 °F) in Scamander, and the long-standing Tasmanian record of 40.8 °C (105.4 °F) (recorded in Hobart on 4 January 1976) was broken five times within two days at Flinders Island, Fingal (twice), St Helens and Scamander, [7] while Hopetoun in Victoria recorded the state's highest ...
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station was created in 1976 at Cape Grim, Tasmania; the Cape Grim Air Archive was created in 1978, when air samples started to be collected. The archive is a facility of CSIRO. [2]
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) defined this event as a severe to extreme heatwave throughout Northern Australia and severe to low-intensity in southeastern regions. [ 1 ] According to senior Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) meteorologist Dean Narramore, the heatwave was caused by a weather front that brought a combination of heat, dry air, and ...
The Bureau of Meteorology is the main provider of weather forecasts, warnings and observations to the Australian public. The Bureau's head office is in Melbourne Docklands , which includes the Bureau's Research Centre, the Bureau National Operations Centre, the National Climate Centre, the Victorian Regional Forecasting Centre as well as the ...
Tasmania has a cool temperate climate with four distinct seasons. The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania is 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009, during the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave. Tasmania's lowest recorded minimum temperature is −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) on 7 August 2020, at Central Plateau. [1]
Cape Grim, officially Kennaook / Cape Grim, [2] is the northwestern point of Tasmania, Australia.The Peerapper name for the cape is recorded as Kennaook. [3]It is the location of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station and of the Cape Grim Air Archive [4] which is operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology [5] in a joint programme with the CSIRO.
The maps are bound into approximately six-month folios, 63 of which cover the entire period. There are approximately 10,000 continental weather maps along with 750 rainfall maps for South Australia, 10 million printed words of news text, and innumerable handwritten observations and correspondences about the weather.