EXTREME TEMPERATURE. 105 DEGREES YESTERDAY. = 40.5 Celsius
EXTREME TEMPERATURE. (1935, February 15). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 – 1954), p. 8. Retrieved February 16, 2023, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41524375?searchTerm=extreme%20maximum%20temperatures#
“BLOW” ON TABLELAND.
The record registration of 103 degrees reported in Cairns on Wednesday was toppled yester-
day, when the official weather chart at the Cairns Post Office disclosed a maximum temperature
of 105 degrees.
The abnormal weather conditions which have been in vogue for something like six weeks now are making the lot of the average Cairns resident daily more trying. To make matters worse the nights are affording little relief, the temperature on Wednesday night being well over 90 at 10 o’clock.
Night after night dense banks of clouds have appeared, with a promise of rain, but on every occasion they have dispersed long before morning, and the terrific heat, with intense humidity, has continued.
FIVE TIMES OVER CENTURY.
Since the commencement of the present unprecedented spell of dry and abnormally oppressive weather the century registration has been exceeded on five occasions.
On December 7 the official maximum temperature was 101.5, while two days later it soared to the then record temperature of 102. Then came a spell of comparatively “mild” weather, during which the registrations hovered round the 90-97 mark, with the humidity somewhere in the vicinity of 86 per cent.
On December 29 the mercury again rose to 101, which registration was not exceeded until this week, when the following readings were recorded. Monday, 96 degrees; Tuesday, 94 degrees; Wednesday, 103 degrees: Thursday, 105 degrees.