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To: Skywatcher who wrote (14244)	6/28/2007 12:56:42 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 36917

That made for the lowest high temperature on a June 14 in 133 years of record-keeping. Feel the chill? As highs go, Thursday's was a record low By STEVE STONE, The Virginian-Pilot © June 15, 2007 When a weather record is set in June, there's a good chance heat is involved. Not so Thursday. Summer lovers found themselves longing for sweaters as the mercury stalled at 66 just before noon at the National Weather Service data station at Norfolk International Airport. That made for the lowest high temperature on a June 14 in 133 years of record-keeping. --------------- Coldest June day in half a century 22.06.2007 IF you thought yesterday was one of our coldest days, you might just be on the money. We will find out at 9am whether the "shocker" broke the record for the lowest June maximum recorded and unless the sun comes out in force this morning, we could shatter the 15-degree record which has stood since June 1961 by more than two degrees. "You can tell your grandkids you lived in Mackay the day temperatures were less than Melbourne," Bureau of Meteorology technical officer Craig Hall joked. "It was nasty." In Mackay, the highest temperature was 11.6 degrees at 3pm. Mackay's average maximum for June is 22 degrees. At 5am, the temperature was just 8.9 degrees and the Apparent Temperature (with the rain and wind chill factored in) was a frosty 5.6 degrees. For people in the Pioneer Valley it was even cooler. The temperature hovered below nine degrees all day and there were reports of a minimum of one degree at Crediton, Eungella, early yesterday. Finch Hatton Gorge resident Warren "Wazza" Swadling, who runs the Platypus Bush Camp, couldn't help but laugh at the expense of a few brave backpackers (English and Canadian) who took a swim in the icy waters yesterday morning. "I saw the expressions on their faces even they though it was cold," he said, huddled in front of his heater and wishing he had a "platypuss coat" to protect him. The temperature didn't make it into the double figures in the region's west. According to Dysart Bakery's Naomi Burness, pies were the order of the day. She said staff had been rushed off their feet baking and selling warm treats, while people in jackets, jumpers and beanies shivered and the thermometer refused to budge above nine degrees, even at midday. Clermont and Emerald were no warmer. Thick cloud is to blame for the cold day with the sun unable to let through a chink of light or warmth. A massive upper trough in central Australia has caused the rain but skies might clear later this afternoon.