18 Jan 1896 Hawkesbury Heat 116-118.8deg
Hawkesbury District. The following record
from the Peninsula Observatory (and for which
we have to thank Mr John Tebbutt, F.R.A.S.) is
particularly interesting:—
Yesterday (Sunday) the shade temperature at
this Observatory reached 116.8 degrees, or the
same as that attained on the 6th instant. To-day,
however, the maximum recorded was 118.8 degs,
the highest experienced here since 1862. The
next highest was recorded in 1878 when the
thermometer registered 117.1 degrees. During
the 33 years of my experience I have never till to-
day recorded as high as 100 degrees at 9 o’clock
a.m. At that hour this morning the reading was
102.8 degrees, and at 6 o’clock this evening the
temperature had not sunk below 105 degrees.
