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Does David Copperfield work at the Bureau of Meteorology?

13 July 2020

2:18 PM

13 July 2020

2:18 PM

On January 13, 1939, The Sydney Morning Herald reported: ‘Based on officially recorded maximum temperatures ….. the registration of 124 degrees (51.1°C) at White Cliffs was the highest recorded in New South Wales since the record for the State, 125 degrees (51.7°C) was made at Bourke in 1909’.

Yet, if you look at BOM’s current records for ‘New

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