heat – Page 72 – Real Climate Records

Feb 24

Charles Sturt’s time: so hot that thermometers exploded. Was Australia’s hottest day in 1828? 53.9Celsius

http://joannenova.com.au/2012/07/charles-sturts-time-so-hot-that-thermometers-exploded-was-australias-hottest-day-in-1828-53-9c/ Australia’s hottest day? Not 2010, but 1828 at a blistering 53.9 °C Back before man-made climate change was frying […]

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 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 17

The Arctic is warming at a rate of almost twice the global average. Part 17 in everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else.

https://arcticwwf.org/work/climate/ Without urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming […]

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 05

FEARFUL HEAT AT CUNNAMULLA. 01 Feb 1896. “Yesterday 120.5deg. was reached, and to-day 123deg., the average daily temperature from the 1st instant exceeding 114deg. The official readings at the Post Office are lower,” 50.5 Celsius.

FEARFUL HEAT AT CUNNAMULLA. (1896, February 1). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 – 1939), p. 232. Retrieved February 5, […]

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 […]

Jan 30

Japan Warming Faster than the Global Average. Part 27 in everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else.

https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00067/hot-and-getting-hotter.html The temperature in Japan is rising significantly faster than the global average. The Japan Meteorological Agency’s 2012 Climate Change […]

Jan 29

RECORD HEAT. 24 Jan 1912. Brewarrina 118 deg F = 47.7 Celsius.

RECORD HEAT. (1912, January 24). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 – 1954), p. 8. Retrieved January 29, 2021, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39921546?searchTerm=record%20heat&searchLimits=# […]