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Taking Melbourne’s temperature

5 August 2017

9:00 AM

5 August 2017

9:00 AM

The city of Melbourne has one of the longest surface-temperature records for anywhere in Australia, stretching from 1856 to the present day and utilising only four sites. From 1908 until 2013 the series’ measurements were taken at the junction of Victoria and La Trobe Streets when it was replaced by a site at Olympic Park (which began measurements in 2013).

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