{"id":4496,"date":"2026-10-18T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:34:57","slug":"katoombas-increasing-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/katoombas-increasing-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Katoomba&#8217;s increasing temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Science at the Local Talk (November 18, 6pm, Penrith Library) I have found some more evidence of climate change in the Blue Mountains.\u00a0 To start off, here&#8217;s the graph of average extreme temperatures over the past century or so. This was obtained from the BOM Climate data page. It shows a definite increase, although the range is small.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4498\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Katoomba-temperatures-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to get a graph of the extreme temperatures in Katoomba over time, and it shows a definite increase, even if the range is small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}