Thursday, 1 November 2007 - Monthly Climate Summary for Western Australia - Product code IDCKGC11R0
Western Australia in October 2007
A warm October for WA
The statewide mean maximum temperature was 0.89°C above the long term (1961-1990) average. Large areas in WA experienced 1-2 °C warm anomalies though parts of the south and west coast saw cool anomalies.
The mean minimum temperature across the state was 0.47°C above the long term (1961-1990) average. Parts of the Pilbara, Gascoyne, Central West and a small area around Kalgoorlie registered warmer than normal overnight temperatures with 1-2 °C anomalies, whilst the remainder of WA experienced a close to mean minimum for October.
October 2007 was a close to normal month for rainfall in Western Australia as a whole. Areas of the Kimberley, northern Interior, Gascoyne and Goldfields received below to very much below average rainfall contrasting with above average rainfall in the South and Southeast Coastal districts as well as much of the Pilbara. Thus the mean across the state was near average.
Some extremes and records for
individual locations in WA are tabulated below.
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Extremes
| Hottest
day Highest temperature | 44.1 °C at Curtin Aero on the 13th |
|---|---|
| Warmest days on average Highest mean daily maximum temperature | 40.6 °C at Fitzroy Crossing Aero |
| Coolest days on average Lowest mean daily maximum temperature | 17.7 °C at Albany |
| Coldest day Lowest daily maximum temperature | 10.6 °C at Manjimup on the 27th |
| Coldest night Lowest temperature | -0.7 °C at Norseman Aero on the 29th |
| Coolest
nights on average Lowest mean daily minimum temperature | 5.6 °C at Wandering |
| Warmest nights on average Highest mean daily minimum temperature | 26.5 °C at Troughton Island |
| Warmest night Highest daily minimum temperature | 29.3 °C at Warmun on the 23rd |
| Wettest overall Highest total rainfall | 119.8 mm at Bickley |
| Wettest day Highest daily rainfall | 59.0 mm at Warmun on the 26th |
| Highest wind gust | 100 km/h at Rottnest Island on the 27th |
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Records
| Record highest total October rainfall | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total rainfall for October 2007 (mm) | Previous highest for October | Years of record | Normal
for October | ||
| Esperance Aero | 94.4 | 84.1 | in 1971 | 37 | 46.4 |
| Record lowest October daily maximum temperature | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest daily maximum temperature in October 2007 (°C) | Previous lowest for October | Years
of record | Normal for October | |||
| Esperance | 10.8 | on the 27th | 12.7 | on the 6th in 2005 | 38 | 21.0 |
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Notes
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 10 am on Thursday 1 November 2007. Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes available.
Normals
are long-term means based on observations from all available years of record,
which vary widely from site to site. They are not shown for sites with less than
30 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the mean
of "normal" rain.
Further information
Western Australia Climate Services CentreBureau of Meteorology
Phone (08) 9263 2222
Email climate.wa@bom.gov.au