{"id":1400,"date":"2020-01-22T04:58:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2020-01-22T05:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:02:34","slug":"hottest-day-on-record-in-three-capitals-seven-deaths-many-people-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD IN THREE CAPITALS Seven Deaths: Many People Collapse. Here’s a challenge. I’ve given some search links, now find hot daily or seasonal conditions equaling those in this story. You can’t."},"content":{"rendered":"

HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD IN THREE CAPITALS Seven Deaths: Many People Collapse (1939, January 11). Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 7. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/68533670?searchTerm=seven%20deaths%20many%20people%20collapse&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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READINGS OF UP TO 121 IN MALLEE<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A HEAT WAVE again blistered south-eastern Australia yesterday, and the day was the hottest on record in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, while in parts of the Mallee (Vic.) recordings<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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exceeded 120.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Adelaide thermometers soared to 116.9, while in Melbourne the temperature reached 113 degrees.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At Ivanhoe (N.S.W.) the temperature has exceeded 100 degrees for the past 27 days.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Four people<\/span> died in Melbourne, two in Mildura, and one in Sydney due to the excessive heat, while many<\/span> others collapsed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. – To-day was the hottest day in Melbourne’s history, the temperature reaching a maximum of 112.5 degrees at 3.25 p.m. Five<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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minutes later 113 degrees were recorded in the heart of the city.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At 10 a.m., the reading was 93.1 and at 2 p.m. 106.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Four people<\/span> died from heat in Melbourne, and numbers of others collapsed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But for the low humidity of only about eight per cent., fatalities would have been higher, doctors stated tonight.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The normal January humidity in Melbourne is 49 per cent.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Days of sweltering heat in the country reached their peak with readings of up to 121 degrees. Temperatures were highest in the Mallee, Ultima recording 121 and Berriwillock 120.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Collapsed<\/span> and Died<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ivor Griffiths, aged about 50, of Melton South, collapsed<\/span> from the heat in Bourke street to-day and died on the way to hospital.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ernest Niel (80), of Kensington, collapsed at his home while preparing a<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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bath, and died. Anthony James Smith (19), of William street, City, collapsed<\/span> in the street and died. William M’Grath, North Carlton, collapsed at his home, and died immediately.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MILDURA, Tuesday. – Due to the intense heat to-day, Mrs. E. Cassidy (72), of Koondrook, collapsed<\/span> in a bus near Mildura and died.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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John Foley (53), of Mildura, collapsed and died.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday, – To-day’s maximum temperature of 116.9 at 3.15 p.m. was Adelaide’s highest since records were first kept 81 years ago. Today was the fifth consecutive century,and last night was the second hottest night known.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The minimum temperature was 90 at 2.30 a.m.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. – A record temperature of 106 degrees was recorded at Canberra to-day. This was the first time since records have been kept that there have been centuries of heat<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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on four successive days. It was 102 yesterday and 101 on Sunday and Saturday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Over 100 For 27 Days<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. – Challenging Bourke’s claim to the title of the hottest town in New South Wales, Ivanhoe, in the Far West, to-day recorded a temperature of 100 for the 27th day in<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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succession.<\/div>\n
Broken Hill had a temperature of 113 at 12.30 p.m.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At Bourke to-day it was 105 at 9 a.m. This is Bourke’s 25th successive day of temperatures, exceeding 100 degrees, and the State record of 43 years’ standing has been broken.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Temperatures at Forbes for the past 24 days have averaged 101 degrees. The reading of 112 on Monday and again to-day was the highest for a decade.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At Moree the temperature has been 110 to 116 for some days.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Playing with his children at Reeton, after he had ploughed with the temperature at 108 degrees, Frederick Trasker collapsed<\/span> and died.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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BRISBANE Tuesday. – Queensland, usually regarded as the hot-box of the continent at this time of the year, has been basking in temporate weather during the past few days. At noon to-day<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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it was 84.3, with a humidity of 69 percent., which is normal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Queensland’s hottest noon temperatures were 101 at Cunnamulla and 100 at Thargomindah.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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