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Historic WA early settler weather journals set to help solve climate change ‘puzzle’
Weather journals kept by Australia’s early settlers, detailing daily observations decades before official record keeping began, are expected to shed light on weather variability in one of the world’s climate change hotspots.
Key points:
- The journals, some dating back to 1830, are in the process of being digitised
- Bureau of Meteorology records only go back about 120 years
- The data will offer a valuable insight into Australia’s pre-industrial climate
The handwritten journals, dating back to 1830, provide a detailed picture of weather events in Perth.
It is likely to be the oldest near-continuous record of daily weather observations in the southern hemisphere, made complete by a recent discovery of journal entries between 1880 and…
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