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Real-Time Extremes
Hottest 31.7 °C Marble Bar, WA
Coldest -4.8 °C Liawenee, TAS
Windiest 50km/h Cape Leeuwin, WA
Wettest (Last Hour) 2mm Montague Island Lighthouse, N

 

Marble Bar, the world's hottest town...160 consecutive days over 100 F

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Australia is a big place. The Brecon Beacons can do all of that on a day in August.

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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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3PM 31,Oct 2016

 

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Hottest 42.1 °C Wyndham Aero, WA
Coldest -2.2 °C Mount Hotham, VIC
Windiest 66.7km/h Scotts Peak Dam, TAS
Wettest (Last Hour) 9mm Glen Innes Airport AWS, NSW

 

Wyndham, the second hottest town in the world (and a mongrel of a place...) 300 consecutive days at 90 F, or over.

 

Have been there when it was 110 F at midnight...

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The Aussie extreme that surprised me the most was waking up to a frost in Queensland when we were far enough north to be close to or over the tropic line. The locals even had pictures of snow.

I haven't been back for a while but I did enjoy having the Aussies bleat on about "The Harsh Australian Climate" only to laugh in their face and ask "Where's the harshest climate in Australia then?".

The inevitable reply was "The Simpson Desert" and I'd ask how long the Simpson would take to kill you if you were dumped there without the right gear. The consensus seems to be somewhere between 2 and 4 days.

The poor boys ere so crestfallen when I pointed out that the same scenario in the Brecons might kill you in 40 minutes.

Wet, cold and windy is a bad combination - a combination responsible with both of my close calls with hypothermia.

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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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The Aussie extreme that surprised me the most was waking up to a frost in Queensland when we were far enough north to be close to or over the tropic line. The locals even had pictures of snow.

I haven't been back for a while but I did enjoy having the Aussies bleat on about "The Harsh Australian Climate" only to laugh in their face and ask "Where's the harshest climate in Australia then?".

The inevitable reply was "The Simpson Desert" and I'd ask how long the Simpson would take to kill you if you were dumped there without the right gear. The consensus seems to be somewhere between 2 and 4 days.

The poor boys ere so crestfallen when I pointed out that the same scenario in the Brecons might kill you in 40 minutes.

Wet, cold and windy is a bad combination - a combination responsible with both of my close calls with hypothermia.

I have seen a frost in Hall's Creek in the Kimberlies.

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Cheers, Bobj.

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We were so poor we had frost in our living room ,we used to sit with our feet in the fridge to warm them up

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The Aussie extreme that surprised me the most was waking up to a frost in Queensland when we were far enough north to be close to or over the tropic line. The locals even had pictures of snow.

I haven't been back for a while but I did enjoy having the Aussies bleat on about "The Harsh Australian Climate" only to laugh in their face and ask "Where's the harshest climate in Australia then?".

The inevitable reply was "The Simpson Desert" and I'd ask how long the Simpson would take to kill you if you were dumped there without the right gear. The consensus seems to be somewhere between 2 and 4 days.

The poor boys ere so crestfallen when I pointed out that the same scenario in the Brecons might kill you in 40 minutes.

Wet, cold and windy is a bad combination - a combination responsible with both of my close calls with hypothermia.

That's not bad weather, that's wrong clothes.

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I have seen a frost in Hall's Creek in the Kimberlies.

Now that's impressive - but clear skies and low humidity is all it takes.

I don't recall exactly where we encountered the frost but we were high up in the GDR on a trip that took in Nimbin, The Black Stump, Carnarvon Gorge, the Stockman's hall of fame, the QANTAS Museum and a shedload of wide open vistas.

Caught Yellowbelly and Spangled Perch and got very frustrated watching big cod chasing yabbies' in the shallows and not being able to get them to bite.

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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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That's not bad weather, that's wrong clothes.

When it's two or three degrees, with horizontal sleet, the only right cloths are PJ's, with an outer layer of bricks.

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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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