On Aug 16, 7:05*am, Steve wrote:
However, bear in mind that the coldest max they are talking about
is.....

"Climate scientist Georgina Griffiths of the National Institute of
Water and Atmospheric Research said yesterday was the coldest day ever
recorded in Auckland.

The temperature got up to only 8.2C - compared with the previous
lowest high of 8.7C, on July 4, 1996.
My brother in law who lives in NZ is a climate change denier. *This
little lot is going to play right into his hands.

Steve

Never mind, we all have stupid people in families or extended
families. Actually, Griffiths is only correct in a narrow technical
sense. The records cited are for Auckland Airport, and they do not
extend back past the 1960s.

At Albert Park in central Auckland, which is significantly warmer than
the airport, a maximum of only 7.8C was recorded in July 1930. Albert
Park records ceased after 1989. {Thanks for nothing, the Friedmanite-
Rogergnomes who made the "reforms" which closed a lot of stations and
caused discontinuities in some important records}. So yesterday was
certainly not Auckland's coldest time over any reasonable time span
since records were first measured in the 1850s (values from that
century are treated with caution for the main Auckland site for that
time though). Undoubtedly Auckland would have had days colder than
7.8C prior to 1930.

(Reposted as earlier try seemed to fail)