Horses Drop in 117 Degrees of Heat ADELAIDE 20 Jan 1934. “Birds were flying into the houses to escape the heat.”
Horses Drop in 117 Degrees of Heat (1934, January 20). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954), p. 7. Retrieved February 1, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248959624/27312737#
Horses Drop in 117 Degrees of Heat
ADELAIDE, Friday.
The temperature here to-day passed the century for the sixth day in succession, reaching a maximum of 103.8 degrees at 1.30 p.m.
At Loxton the maximum was 117.
Horses in teams dropped from exhaustion, and birds were flying into the houses to escape
the heat.