Where is Hottest Place in Australia

The truth lays in the detail it seems - far as I know, Oodnadatta SA holds the official 'town/locality' record for the country's highest temperature - at the other end of the scale, Charlotte's Pass has the lowest. Marble Bar lays claim to record length heat waves, not specific highs it seems.

Where abouts in WA are you Mark ?



Cheers.......Browny

Cloncurry lays claim to the hottest recorded temperature, back in the 50's from memory..

Marc , it allways makes me laugh , the 'official' temperature /rainfall etc , yesterday the official high temp at the 'official' recording station was 35c , it was that on my verandah in the shade at 8am peaking at 42c round 3pm ,,

Hi marc

When we lived at the junction ( gascoyne junction ) in the 70s we used to give marble bar a nudge for the hottest and longest temps.

regards Dave

Hi Marc. Just as an aside the hottest temperature I have experienced was two days at 44 and one at 45 in Dampier WA whilst visiting my brother. We spent most of it in his air conditioned house as we found it so hot. Even the cold water was too hot to use. I don't know how you guys survive those sorts of endless temperatures. Regards,Bob

Guys,
Isn't there a saying,

if you can't stand the heat, get out of it,



come to TASSIE

Baz

Marc,

50.7ºC (123.3ºF) recorded in Oodnadatta, South Australia on 2nd January 1960.

Marble Bar in Western Australia claims a world record by having recorded 160 consecutive days with a temperature of over 100ºF (37.8ºC), from 31st October 1923 until 7th April 1924.

These are officially recognised records but some will quote even greater extremes which were not officially verified. To be accurately reliable for comparisons the thermometers must be contained within a defined Instrument Enclosure. Observations taken otherwise may not be an accurate representation of the true temperature. For example, readings taken on a verandah could be elevated by radiation from the roof cladding.

Hi Marc

As quoted above, these are a few records which appear on the linked website. Of course these are dependent on official weather reporting stations which may have been few and far between when these records were taken, and are still not a comprehensive coverage of the country. Travelling around, locals will tell you of their hottest or coldest day - sometimes outside of the record, but not official. Your climate sounds way to hot for me.

The highest recorded temperature of 53.1 C was at Cloncurry, Qld, on 16 January 1889.

Marble Bar, WA, has the highest monthly average temperature of any locality in Australia. During the summer months, the town averages 41 degrees Celsius.

Marble Bar, WA, recorded the longest period of extreme heat of above 37.7 C. for 160 days from October 1923 to April 1924.

AUSTRALIA FOR EVERYONE

Motherhen

Here's what Wiki says about the Cloncurry record:

"Cloncurry was widely regarded as holding the record for the highest temperature recorded in Australia at 127.5 °F (53.1 °C) on 16 January 1889. Recent investigations have revealed that this temperature was measured in an improvised screen made from a beer crate and that it equated to 47–49 °C under standard conditions".

I reckon they deserved bonus points for improvisation in 1889....

Motherhen is on the ball, seems a lot of tourists don't read the signs.

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Its gotta be the Heatroom at work which we have had set at a constant 60c for last few days checking out some new electronics specification claims.

I went in there a bit just to see how it feels and surprisingly you can hack it for a while - probably physcological though because you know you can just kick the door open and get out when you want.

Gosh Marc, if you could work out the real answer to that one the IPCCC would just love you!

Seriously though, the above replies show how difficult it is to get a definitive temperature record that covers the whole country, over many decades, and with measurement technology that is changing too. How many towns started out with their weather stations/white slatted boxes (Stephensen screens) out on the edge of town surrounded by grass, but the town has now moved out and surrounded the station with concrete and asphalt. What does that do to the temperature readings?

Cheers

Val

Hi all. Fitzroy Crossing is giving Marble Bar a run for its money. They are neck and neck for November with a mean maximum of 40.8 and 41.3 respectively. MB got to 46.2 Whew!!!..... W

I lived in Leinster and worked out at Agnew in '88 and '89. We'd have a couple of weeks straight around the 45c mark. I remember watching the weather on GWN one night and they had Port Hedland listed as having been 51c for the day.

During the '03/'04 cricket season I played a game over the Saturday and Sunday at a place called Yalca on the Murray Valley Hwy between Cobram and Nathalia. (we owned the Katamatite PO at the time) It was 45c on the Saturday and 46c on the Sunday. The ground was extremely lush, it was like living in Cairns again. I thought I was going to have a heart attack while I was bowling. I lasted 3 overs off my normal run up and then it was back to 3 steps only. Following that weekend they introduced heat rules for local cricket, it was hot all over the state.

I remember the week/weekend before Black Saturday it was in the mid to high 40s for 3 days straight.

i do reckon that out on the "Ashburton Downs" flats out of Paraburdoo would have to of been the hottest place i have ever been to .......... it looks hot, feels hot and stays hot at night .......
Seen birds in trees, little that there are out there, drop out of the trees dead from just the heat ...............
It has been hot here to Marc but not that hot and it is humid as hell here, bit of rain around and everything is very green ....
Cheers and "enjoy" the heat .....

MARC, THAT'S IT, WE SHOULD HAVE PROPOSED THE SOCCER WORLD CUP BE ROTATED BETWEEN MARBLE BAR, CLONCURRY AND OODNADATTA - THEN WE WOULD HAVE WON. EVEN HOTTER THAN QATAR!

SORRY COULD'NT HELP MYSELF.

I have lived in Exmouth the last 9 years and it can get hot here, we have over the last 6 years had the following temps of 48.2 in Jan 2003, and the first two days of this year 1st and 2nd Jan were 48 and 49 degrees respectively, considering we are on the coast thats hot.


Cheers
Mark

Marc
I used to work at a minesite north of Marble Bar as a fire assayer and in the summer months the temperature by 9-00am was around 43 in the shade, the area i worked in would often reach 60-65 deg C, fortunately you weren't in that invironment very long but I used to sit outside because it was cooler.
Mike

Marc,
hottest place in Aussie is right here at my place when the missus gets a little peeved with me.

Tell ya a little story about the hot and cold of things. Was down in the bowels of a little mine a few years back, temp was around 37c, now that doesn't seem very hot at all but when you have no air passing you and the humidity is 100% your jocks get very, very wet. That's if you have any on.

Well !!! I am bringing an open cab machine up to the surface, only problem is I have a couple of mates driving up in front of me. They are hell bent on payback (I don't know why they would want to hurt little ole innocent me)

They start turning on the dust suppression sprays, now you say what is wrong with that, no dust just good clean air. I can tell you when it is close to zero on the surface and the air coming down the decline is close to 40kph + the speed of the machine.

Result is I now have an appendage that is measured in millimetres and 2 round things that are the size of a pea.

Now when it gets super hot I just freeze.

Have a good one.

I lived in Cloncurry for several years and it sure can get hot there, however the hottest place I ever lived was the main Ord dam site.

In the early days of the project we were constructing the accommodation village and lived in tents (can you imagine anyone living on site in tents these days?)

We eventually got some caravans, no air con.. I moved into one for one night, and moved back to a tent as it was cooler.

Reckon that place would go close to being the hottest.

Gidday Marc, I grew up in Wyndham, 60/70's an seem to remember my Dad (Bob Mac) telling me Wyndham once held a record of the longest consecutive days over 100deg F but do not know if this still is true.
I drove a truck with Dad out of Halls Creek in 73 taking drum fuel out to the desert for Ray Geo doing siesmic work, we used to go through Billiluna, Chungla Well, Weriado well and cannot remember where to from there. Sometimes we went through the Gregory Lake systems to the old Lake Gregory Homestead which I understand was a southern homestead of Billiluna(which I believe is now Mulan, you may be able to correct me?) I seem to remember the old fellow there used to grow the best tomatoes. Want to go back to that country sometime to look around again, as a 17 year old the desert intrigued me. I passed through again in 84 north bound and was fascinated by the Breadon Hills. When we got to Weriado Well I remembered where we were,I climbed the windmill and could only see water, referred to the RAC map's, we had to back track to a shot line to a fence line to pick up the Chunlgla Well road. Funny story we stopped at Bloodwood Bore and topped up water and the two blokes in our group had a tub up under the overflow and didn't notice the salty water, next morning at Wolf Creek crater, boil the billly for a cuppa tea and a big spit, couldn't drink it, drained the water tanks luckily there was a lot of water in the creeks up to the highway past Ruby Plains if we needed it. You have stirred the memory banks, long service in a couple of years could be on the ittinery?(spelling)
Cheers Rom Mac

Hi All

Thankyou very much for your wonderful and informative responses. Now I have some "research" to do to try and find out which ofthe spots really has reached the highest temperatures.

How lovely it was for a thread to occur without uncalled for heated (no pun) debates and the like. Very enjoyable.

Cheers

off topic but still on about hot places

which capital city has the lowest recorded maximum temperature??

the answer WILL surprise you............................

No Takers?

its Darwin

darwin has never recorded a temperature of even 40 deg as a maximum making it the coldest capitol