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Wednesday, 19 December 2001

MEDIA RELEASE - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL OFFICE

Adelaide's cool start to summer equals 37-year-old record

Adelaide has had one of the coolest starts to summer on record.

For the first time this month, Adelaide's maximum temperature was today higher than 30 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature to 3pm was 33.6 degrees. For the first 18 days of December this year, daily maximum temperatures did not reach 30 degrees. The average maximum temperature for the period was only 22.8 degrees - 4 degrees below the long-term average of 26.8 degrees for December.

The last time this occurred was in December 1964, when, for the first 18 days, the maximum daily temperatures was below 30 degrees. The average temperature for the whole of December 1964 was only 21.4 degrees.

The coolest start to summer on record was in 1907, when the first 19 days of December remained below 30 degrees.

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Rick Millard, tel: (08) 8366 2689.

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