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Old 1st Aug 2017, 06:01
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Flying Binghi
 
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The BOM initially provided the "facts"...

“The correct minimum temperature for Goulburn on 2 July, 2017 is -10.4 recorded at 6.30am at Goulburn Airport AWS… The Bureau’s quality control system, designed to filter out spurious low or high values was set at -10 minimum for Goulburn which is why the record automatically adjusted.”

Then different 'facts' were provided to the minister...

...“the AWS at Goulburn stopped recording when the temperature fell below -10°C.”...

So which of these 'facts' provided by the BOM is correct ?



"...In short, after initially recording -10.0 in the CDO dataset, this was changed to -10.4 three days later following a blog post ( Bureau Erases Goulburn Record Minimum), an outcry on Facebook, and enquires from prominent journalists..."

More fascinating background here: Bureau Misleads Minister Frydenberg on Goulburn - Jennifer Marohasy





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