widespread global cooling, page-27

hey, here is a sceptic's reply....lets go back 70 years...
and that record stood for Melb, for over 70 years..Until Jan 2009
Black Friday 1939
Conditions
In the days preceding the fires, the state capital Melbourne experienced some of its hottest temperatures on record at the time: 43.8 °C (110.8 °F) on January 8 and 44.7 °C (112.5 °F) on January 10. On January 13, the day of the fires, temperatures reached 45.6 °C (114.1 °F), which stood as the hottest day officially recorded in Melbourne for the next 70 years. (Unofficial records show temperatures of around 47 °C (117 °F) were reported on the Black Thursday fires of February 6, 1851).[1]

The summer of 1938–39 had been hot and dry, and several fires had broken out. By early January, fires were burning in a number of locations across the state. Then, on Friday January 13, a strong northerly wind hit the state, causing several of the fires to combine into one massive front.