OCTOBER HEAT Soaring Temperatures 23 Oct 1914
The conditions prevailing in Adelaide are exceptionally hot for October, although up to Friday at noon, when the temperature was 97.1, a new record had not been established, the hottest day ever experienced
for the same month having registered 100.5. That was 55 years ago.
The Weather Office report states:—”High-pressure conditions still exist this morning over the whole of
eastern Australia, the centre of the system lying off the New South Wales coast.
Hot northerly winds prevail throughout this State, the temperature at 8.30 a.m. exceeding 80 deg. at a good many stations. The temperature at Adelaide at that time was 85 deg.. and by noon it had risen to
97.1 deg.