Oct 16

PHEW!! RECORD OCTOBER HEAT 31 Oct 1921. 97 deg F = 36 Celsius

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106631729?searchTerm=october%20heat&searchLimits=#
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At Adelaide the air temperature on Saturday reached 98 degrees from a minimum of 66.2 degrees, and on Sunday it rose from a minimum of 71 degrees at midnight on Saturday to 97 degrees at noon Sunday.
The solar radiation thermometer on those two days reached 150.2 degrees and 162.0 degrees respec-
tively; the latter being the absolute highest temperature in the sun ever recorded in October at Adelaide.