Burnie (Round Hill) is a weather station located 8 m above sea level, 3 km from Burnie. Its records go back to 1945: 34 years of temperature are available up to 2017, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2017. Over 1991–2020 the annual mean temperature there is 13.5 °C; the 1961–1990 period is not documented well enough to compare. The warmest year of the series is 1988 (14.3 °C) and the coldest 1984 (12.6 °C). The last complete year, 2017, ranks 14 out of 34, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2017, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.19 °C per decade. The station ranks 110 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1945
The first ten years of the series (1982–1993) average 13.3 °C; the last ten (2008–2017) average 13.7 °C, a difference of +0.3 °C. Of the ten warmest years in the series, 7 fall after 1999. The warmest is 1988 (14.3 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 13.8 °C (2014) and bottoms out at 13.2 °C (1998).
Annual rainfall since 1945
On average 950 mm of rain falls per year over the 72 documented years. The wettest year, 1975, received 1482 mm; the driest, 2006, only 402 mm, which is 3.7 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (870 mm per year) is 100 mm (10.3 %) below the 1961–1990 one (970 mm). Over 1991–2020, August is on average the wettest month (111 mm) and February the driest (35 mm). Between 1998 and 2017, 4 years out of 20 exceeded the series average.
Monthly normals: 1961–1990 against 1991–2020
The table compares, month by month, the mean temperature and the rainfall total of two thirty-year reference periods. The difference column shows what the recent period changes compared with the earlier one.
| Month | Temp. 1961–1990 | Temp. 1991–2020 | Difference | Rain 1961–1990 | Rain 1991–2020 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | – | 17.4 °C | – | 43 mm | 49 mm | +6 mm |
| February | 17.5 °C | 17.8 °C | +0.3 °C | 42 mm | 35 mm | −7 mm |
| March | 16.3 °C | 16.5 °C | +0.2 °C | 58 mm | 47 mm | −11 mm |
| April | – | 14.3 °C | – | 78 mm | 59 mm | −19 mm |
| May | 12.0 °C | 12.2 °C | +0.2 °C | 105 mm | 79 mm | −26 mm |
| June | 9.9 °C | 10.6 °C | +0.7 °C | 99 mm | 91 mm | −8 mm |
| July | 9.1 °C | 9.9 °C | +0.8 °C | 136 mm | 107 mm | −29 mm |
| August | 9.6 °C | 10.0 °C | +0.4 °C | 112 mm | 111 mm | −1 mm |
| September | 10.7 °C | 11.0 °C | +0.3 °C | 92 mm | 98 mm | +6 mm |
| October | 12.1 °C | 12.4 °C | +0.3 °C | 81 mm | 71 mm | −10 mm |
| November | 14.0 °C | 14.3 °C | +0.3 °C | 64 mm | 64 mm | 0 mm |
| December | – | 15.8 °C | – | 60 mm | 59 mm | −1 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in January (+6 mm) and the smallest in July (−29 mm).
Records at Burnie (Round Hill)
- Warmest year: 14.3 °C, in 1988
- Coldest year: 12.6 °C, in 1984
- Driest year: 402 mm, in 2006
- Wettest year: 1482 mm, in 1975
- Warmest month: 20.1 °C, in February 2007
- Coldest month: 7.8 °C, in July 1966
- Wettest month: 347 mm, in July 1974
- Hottest day: 33.8 °C, on 31 January 2009
- Coldest day: −2.0 °C, on 14 August 1967
- Heaviest rain in one day: 107.2 mm, on 22 March 1956
1.7 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 35.8 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2017
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.19 °C per decade between 1961 and 2017, about +1.1 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.00 °C per decade: the station ranks 110 out of 227.
Data source and licence
Data source: Bureau of Meteorology (ACORN-SAT) and NOAA NCEI (GHCN-Daily) (dataset “ACORN-SAT v2 daily (homogenised) + GHCN-Daily”), licence CC BY 4.0; Public domain (NOAA NCEI). Last updated: 29 October 2026.
The data for Burnie (Round Hill) are shown as the source publishes them; this site does not correct them. A year is kept only if at least eleven months of measurements are available, and a normal is computed only with at least twenty years of data out of its thirty. Temperatures are rounded to 0.1 °C and rainfall to the millimetre. The station is one of 227 stations in Australia: the overview page lets you compare them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the annual mean temperature at Burnie (Round Hill)?
Over 1991–2020, the annual mean temperature at Burnie (Round Hill) is 13.5 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Burnie (Round Hill)?
Since records began in 1945, the warmest year at Burnie (Round Hill) is 1988, at 14.3 °C on average. The coldest is 1984 (12.6 °C).
Is the climate at Burnie (Round Hill) getting warmer?
Yes: at Burnie (Round Hill), the annual mean temperature rises by 0.19 °C per decade between 1961 and 2017, +1.1 °C in total. 7 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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