Dear old Bureau of Meteorology up to usual tricks claiming a hottest evah record hot night for Sydney but ignoring the UHI. The record is not worth the paper it is printed on due to the huge urban heat island UHI.
Sydney weather: Overnight temperature is record high for December, BOM says.
AWN lets you look around the region and see that the night of the 14th was warmest in the Sydney core stations, Obs Hill 27.1, Airport 27.5, Parramatta 27.5. Note RICHMOND RAAF (067105) at 23.6 further west in the UHI – the record there for Dec is 25 in 2000. The earlier RICHMOND RAAF (067033) 1928-1994 has 25.5 in 1990 as the record Dec night. All pointing to this warm night event being nothing special – unless you want to beat up global warming.
