THE RECENT HEAT WAVE. 6th Feb 1896
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THE RECENT HEAT WAVE.
The Colonial Secretary of New South “Wales, Mr. J. N. Brunker, on Saturday received a
memorandum from Gundabooka station, on the Darling river, giving the readings of the
thermometer in proper shade at the station homestead (which is within 30 yards of the
river) from January 1 to January 25.
The following is the extraordinary record of each successive day’s temperature from the 1st to
the 25th, inclusive, at this station:—112°, 107°,112°, 114°, “118°, 121°, 123°, 118°, 118°, .115°,
114°,’124°, 117°, 121°, 120°, 128°, 128°, 124^,129°, 126?, 120°, 126°, 129°, 119°, 98°.