bushfires – Page 5 – Real Climate Records

Mar 10

NINE BUSHFIRES RAGE IN VICTORIA 08 March 1950. May bring Victoria’s worst bushfire menace for 12 months

NINE BUSHFIRES RAGE IN VICTORIA (1950, March 8). Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 – 1954), p. 2. Retrieved March […]

Feb 01

HEAT WAVE IN VICTORIA Hottest Day Since 1924. 01 Feb 1926. Forest areas and grazing lands are alight, and the almost consistent wall of fire rages for 50 miles.

HEAT WAVE IN VICTORIA (1926, February 1). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954), p. 7. Retrieved February 1, […]

Jan 01

HEAT WAVE IN SOUTHERN STATES 01 Jan 1942. The maximum temperature was over 104 degrees. The following day it reached 105.6 deg., and stayed over the century mark for eight hours. In Adelaide on Christmas Day the maximum rose to 108.2 deg. = 42.3 Celsius.

HEAT WAVES IN SOUTHERN STATES (1942, January 1). Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 – 1946), p. 2. Retrieved January […]

Dec 27

SYDNEY ESCAPES HEAT WAVE 27 Dec 1945. In Melbourne the highest reading was 104.2 degrees, and in Hobart 101 degrees. 104.2 deg F = 40.1 Celsius.

Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), 27 December, p. 1. , viewed 27 Dec 2021, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17964641?searchTerm=extreme%20heat%20in%20melbourne# Sydney appears to […]

Dec 07

HEAT WAVE IN VICTORIA 07 Dec 1950. At Boort, inland Victoria, the temperature at 2.30 was 104 and still rising. 40 Celsius.

Harvard/Australian citation1950 ‘HEAT WAVE IN VICTORIA’, Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 – 1954), 7 December, p. 1. (DAILY), viewed […]

Dec 01

Record Heat For End Of Spring. 01 Dec 1941. Spring ended yesterday with the hottest November day ever experienced in Sydney. Maximum temperature was 103.2 degrees at 11.40 a.m. 39.5 Celsius. Fire brigades were, called to more than 60 bushfires in 45 suburbs.

Record Heat For End Of Spring (1941, December 1). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954), p. 7. […]

Nov 19

SYDNEY RECORD HEAT. 14 Nov 1936. record high temperatures for November, the heat being accentuated by scorching winds laden with smoke from bushfires. 109 degrees at Bourke, 42.7 Celsius

1936 ‘SYDNEY’, The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), 14 November, p. 8. , viewed 19 Nov 2021, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/141781797?searchTerm=Record%20Heat# […]

Nov 11

The Heat Wave. 104 in the Shade 11 Nov 1905. 104deg F = 40 Celsius. Reports of bush fires reach us from nearly every part of the district.

The Heat Wave. (1905, November 11). Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent (NSW : 1887 – 1932), p. 4. Retrieved November […]

Aug 20

BUSHFIRES. 17 Sept 1940. Bushfires have started earlier than usual this season, and considerable damage has already been done in the Blue Mountains area.

BUSHFIRES. (1940, September 17). Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW : 1885 – 1907; 1909 – 1910; 1912 – 1913; 1915 – […]

Jul 05

WORST IN HISTORY BUSHFIRES DEATH ROLL 21. 14 Jan 1939. The charred bodies of 19 more bushfire victims were found yesterday bringing the death toll to 21 in the most disastrous fires in Victoria within living memory.

WORST IN HISTORY (1939, January 14). The Longreach Leader (Qld. : 1923 – 1954), p. 16. Retrieved July 5, 2021, […]