November’s heatwave record run of days above 30 degrees came to a halt last Tuesday week when the maximum temperature pulled up at 29 degrees — or so it seemed.

But now a review of the day’s temperatures has seen that amended to 30.5 degrees.

It also restarted the clock on the record hotspell, the mark now established at 13 days of more than 30 degrees.

Yesterday the Bureau of Meteorology blamed the demands of television news.

The duty forecaster said the top temperatures were taken at 3pm to meet the afternoon deadline of the news’ services.

He admitted the peak for the day was often some time after that and records were subsequently amended.

Wodonga weather man Mat Poppins said it would come as no surprise to most people on the Border that the recorded top temperature of the day was often off the mark.

He has had a weather station on his Stanley Street barber shop for three years.

“Most people who take an interest in the weather would find it amusing that the top temperature is taken at 3pm — in daylight saving months that is really 2pm,” he said.

“From our experience here the peak is frequently after 3pm and sometimes much later in the afternoon.”

Mr Poppins said he recorded a peak of 35.9 degrees last Tuesday week but allowing for the radiant heat generated by nearby roofs suggested the maximum was closer to 32 or 33 degrees.

Albury Local Internet’s Ross Wheeler says the maximum temperature at his Lavington weather station on the day was 32.2 degrees at 4.32pm.

He has kept weather records for more than two decades — updating the figures in real time via his website for five years.

“It has been a bane of contention for many years that the weather bureau takes the maximum recorded temperature of the day up to 3pm,” Mr Wheeler said.