Water Nearly Boiled 14 Jan 1941.”At Surat, where the temperature was 117.” 117 deg.F = 47.222 Degrees Celsius.
WATER NEARLY BOILED. (1932, January 14). The Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 – 1956), p. 33. Retrieved July 9, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70545421/6889982#
WATER NEARLY BOILED.
At Surat, where the temperature was 117, hundreds of poultry died.
So severe was the heat at Mitchell that a tank of water nearly boiled and it was impossible to use it for a long time.