HEAT WAVE IN SOUTHERN STATES 01 Jan 1942. The maximum temperature was over 104 degrees. The following day it reached 105.6 deg., and stayed over the century mark for eight hours. In Adelaide on Christmas Day the maximum rose to 108.2 deg. = 42.3 Celsius.
HEAT WAVES IN SOUTHERN STATES (1942, January 1). Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 – 1946), p. 2. Retrieved January 2, 2024, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38327473?searchTerm=extreme%20heat%20in%20melbourne#
Melbourne’s Record
Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney are sizzling under a severe heat wave which has lasted since
Christmas Day.
Melbourne experienced its hottest Christmas season for 21 years. On Christmas Day the maximum temperature was over 104 degrees. The following day it reached 105.6 deg., and stayed over the century mark for eight hours.
In Adelaide on Christmas Day the maximum rose to 108.2 deg., and stayed over the hundred for eleven hours—that’s heat.
On the Friday it rose to 106.1 deg., and remained over the three figure mark for nine consecutive hours. From Sydney no actual temperature figures were received, but bushfires around Newport and other parts close to the Metropolitan area were reported. The cause of their starting was the extreme heat.
To avoid giving the enemy useful information, it is not permissible to give weather details, but temperatures can be made known the day after they are recorded.