australia – Page 28 – Real Climate Records

Feb 22

Australia Is Heating Up Faster Than The Rest Of The World. Part 13 in everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else.

https://www.popsci.com/australia-heating-faster-rest-world/ Like a shrimp on the barbie By Lydia Ramsey January 27, 2015. Her face should be red as a […]

Feb 22

ABOUT HEAT WAVES. 22 Feb 1899. New South Wales is perspiring, groaning, and griting its teeth under a succession of violent hot sandstorms. Reports from forty-eight places show temperatures ranging from 105deg. to 123 deg. in the shade. 50.5 Celsius

ABOUT HEAT WAVES. (1899, February 22). Riverina Recorder (Balranald, Moulamein, NSW : 1887 – 1944), p. 3. Retrieved February 22, […]

Feb 19

DRY TIME IN VICTORIA. 10 Feb 1939. Water Famine in Bendigo.

DRY TIME IN VICTORIA. (1939, February 10). The Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW : 1873 – 1954), p. 2. Retrieved February […]

Feb 18

Heat Waves Compared. 21 Feb 1914. 116deg.F = 46.6 Celsius. The BOM 2020 heat record was beaten 8 times in 1858 and 6 times in 1908.

HEAT WAVES COMPARED. (1914, February 21). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 – 1954), p. 38. Retrieved February 18, 2021, from […]

Feb 12

IS THE CLIMATE CHANGING? 23 Feb 1901. “Our records of forty or fifty years, if gone through thoroughly, would show you that every variety of summer has been experienced—the long dry, hot summer, as well as the short cool summer, and the intermediates.”

IS THE CLIMATE CHANGING? (1901, February 23). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), p. 24. Retrieved February 26, […]

Feb 10

Torres Strait & Gulf face climate change oblivion. 12 Dec 2007. “You don’t have to be a scientist,” he said, “not when you see metres of beach disappearing every week.” Almost 900 metres have disappeared since 2007? Show us where.

Torres Strait & Gulf face climate change oblivion (2007, December 12). Torres News (Thursday Island, Qld. : 1957-2015), p. 1. […]

Feb 08

ADELAIDE SHIVERS. RECORD COLD FEBRUARY DAY. ADELAIDE, February 27. 1939. “Never before has South Australia known a summer of such extremes.” January 117.7 deg F = 47.6 Celsius.

ADELAIDE SHIVERS. (1939, March 4). The Northern Herald (Cairns, Qld. : 1913 – 1939), p. 18. Retrieved February 8, 2021, […]

Feb 06

EXCESSIVE HEAT IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, January 23 1896. The highest record was in January. 1862, when the shade temperature reached 111.2deg.; in 1876 110.7deg. was reached, and 110.5deg. in the summer of 1882. 43.7 Celsius.

EXCESSIVE HEAT IN MELBOURNE. (1896, February 1). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 – 1939), p. 232. Retrieved February 6, […]

Feb 04

Horses Drop in 117 Degrees of Heat ADELAIDE 20 Jan 1934. “Birds were flying into the houses to escape the heat.” 117 deg F = 47.2 Celsius.

Horses Drop in 117 Degrees of Heat (1934, January 20). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954), p. […]

Feb 02

THE HEAT WAVE. 112.5 in the Shade. No Respite. 02 Feb 1912. “Although this temperature is excessively high it is by no means phenomenal,- for upon 15 occasions during the last 55 years the mercury has risen to a higher reading than this, the maximum having been 116.3 in January, 1858.” = 46.83 Celsius.

1912 ‘THE HEATWAVE.’, Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 – 1912), 2 February, p. 2. (SPECIAL SPORTS EDITION), viewed 02 […]