Katoomba Monthly Temp average set to be SMASHED!!! AGAIN!!!
But this really is a smash! :D :D
Last year was the hottest month on record up here (and yes I know we are nowhere near as hot as other places - somewhat cooler in fact). The Jan 2018 mean temp for the month was 27.2°.
Unfortunately there are no Katoomba records for this January (dunno why) so I have to work with Mt Boyce, which, although only ~10-11km away, can have quite different weather to here, such is life in the mountains.
So working off last year for Mt Boyce, the mean for the month was 27.4, also a record. This month, and only up until yesterday, the mean for Mt Boyce is ....wait for it.....waaaait....
28.5°.
Furthermore, the next seven days are all forecast to be over 30°, and putting those forecast temps into my data, the mean for the month will be
29.3°. RECORD SMASHED!
In other words 2.1° hotter than the record set last January.
Now that, ladies & gents, really is a record smashed to smithareens! Even if a single day's temp was broken by 2° it would be quite something, but for a 31 day average to be broken by 2°, that's crazy.
Kuffy, I deleted the bold, but increased the size, so I'm hoping your nerves are ok with that. :D