Record low temperatures
I don’t like the heat and I welcome unexpected cool weather when it comes in Kalgoorlie during summer. Unfortunately I missed most of the current cool change until today.
Kalgoorlie has received the tail end of a tropical cyclone which became a rain depression across inland parts of Western Australia. That’s not unusual, but the low temperatures are.
Kalgoorlie had a record low February maximum temperature of 15 degrees on Tuesday followed by 15.1 degrees on Wednesday. The maximum today (Thursday) was a new February record low of 14.8 degrees.
We’ve had 63mm of rain so far this month.
According to the Kalgoorlie Miner: Bureau of Meteorology manager of public weather services Neil Bennett said there was some unusually colder weather around, particularly in the Goldfields region.
“To be as low as 15C, that’s really really unusual,” Mr Bennett said.
Cooler winds from the southeast and extensive cloud along with the impact of Tropical Cyclone Nicholas are blamed for the colder weather.
“They (Kalgoorlie and neighbouring areas) have had cool surface winds and little in the way of sunshine because they have had so much cloud cover over the last few days so obviously the temperatures have been very low over a period of time so they are not able to pick up to any great maximum during the day.”
February 2008 Kalgoorlie weather
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
