THREE HOT DAYS October Heat Wave. 01 Nov 1921 102.3 deg F = 39 Celsius. A record-breaking trinity of hot days has occurred. This is how the thermometer has soared during the past 10 days
THREE HOT DAYS. (1921, November 1). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929), p. 4. Retrieved October 31, 2024, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63352463?searchTerm=october%20heat&searchLimits=#
A record-breaking trinity of hot days has occurred. This is how the thermometer has soared during the past 10 days:—
October 21 67
October 22 65
October 23 66
October 24 81
October 23 87
October 26 84
October 27 75
October 28 84
October 29 98
October 20 97
October 31 94
The sting is in the last three. The State Meteorologist (Mr. E. Bromley) said on Monday:— “We have never had three consecutive days running a temperature over 96 deg., in October.
Exactly two years ago on Monday the thermometer touched 102.3, which is the highest ever noted for October, in October, 1914, a couple of hot days ranging near the century occurred.
The average temperature for October is about 75 deg. , and the first three weeks of October was about 4 deg. below normal, but last week the reading averaged about 85 deg. Fortunately the heat was dry. Of course business houses did not complain about the weather, for it livened up trade, and everybody rushed to don lighter wearing apparel. The beaches on Sunday were swarming with hundreds of people, who were having their initial ‘dip’ for the summer.
From an agricultural point of view the dry heat will check any onslaught of rust in wheat. The conditions will cause a rapid ripening of the grain, and improve its quality, but the yield will be reduced accordingly. The conditions are seasonable, but unfortunately there are many late sown crops this year, and further rain would have been acceptable now. The flower gardens have suffered, and sweet peas and roses will soon have spent their bloom.
—’A Change Approaching’—
The Meteorological Bureau issued the following report at 9 p.m. on Monday:—
During the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. to day, light to moderate rain fell generally in Tasmania, and over tho south-western coastal districts and agricultural areas of Western Australia. Continued fine and warm to hot weather was experienced in South Australia to-day; the maximum temperatures ranted from 66 deg. at Cape Northumberland and 79 at Cape Borda to 103 at Eucla and Forbes Bay. The thermometer at Port Augusta rose to 101, and at Snowtown and Kapunda the highest shade readings were 97 and 96 respectively.
In Adelaide the maximum and minimum temperatures were 94.7 and 66.8 respectively. At 9 a.m. to-day eastern Australia was covered by two anti-cyclones, with their respective centres over Tasmania and in south-eastern Queensland. The low pressure disturbance was located over the ocean between Cape Leeuwin and Eucla, while another ‘high’ was seen to be moving over the central part of Western Australia. . At 3 p.m. the ‘low’ was noted as an extended system reaching eastward into the Bight as far as Streaky Bay.
The anticyclone following is moving eastward along the northern edge of the depression, and by 3 p.m. it had produced a shift of wind to the west, accompanied by a fall in temperature of 28 deg. the 3 p.m. temperature being 75 deg. With the continued eastward procession of these two systems tomorrow warm to hot and sultry weather, with northerly winds, will be experienced in South Australia at first, followed later by a cool south-westerly change, with scattered showers and thunderstorms.