{"id":281,"date":"2019-09-15T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=281"},"modified":"2019-09-15T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T05:58:37","slug":"heat-waves-at-bourke-6-feb-1906-120-deg-f-48-8889-degrees-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"HEAT WAVES AT BOURKE. 6 Feb 1906 (120 deg F = 48.8889 Degrees Celsius)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Comparison.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We sincerely trust that the very trying time we have experienced for the last five or six weeks will prove to<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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have been the worst that Old Sol could do for us this summer. The ‘Heat Wave’ of 1896 has ? become an<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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historical epoch. Then deaths were recorded day after day for weeks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Young and old succumbed, and terrible tales of suffering were told all over the colony. It will doubtless surprise our readers to learn that the heat for the 38 days ending 25th inst. exceeded that of a corresponding period of the memorabla 1895-6 season in the total \u2014 that is, adding the maximum of each<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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day together \u2014 by 27 degrees. Perhaps a clearer way to put it is to say that the heat for the period from 19th December, 1895, to 25t January, 1896, averaged 107 34 degrees each day, while for the same period, 1905-6, it averaged 108.05 degrees per day. We have not the minimum figures, but we are of opinion that the minimum of the latter period must be considerably Iess than in 1895-6. Then we remember sweltering night after sweltering night, no breeze or a dry hot blast.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The present season, we are thankful to say, has, so far, not been ‘too bad’ as far as the nights have been concerned. The fact that comparatively few deaths have been recorded this summer as the direct result of the abnormal heat \u2014 sad though those few have been \u2014 goes to prove that present conditions have not been so severe as those of the former period, not with standing that the daily average heat has been greater.<\/div>\n
The following tabulated list of maximum readings of the thermometer for the corresponding periods of the two heat waves is of interest : \u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1895-6 1905-6.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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December 19 90 111<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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20 100 112<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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21 94 106<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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22 88 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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23 82 117<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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24 88 118<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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25 93 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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26 104 113<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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27 108 113<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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28 113 93<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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29 104 107<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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30 93 98<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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31 93 98<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 1 98 94<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2 103 101<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3 102 104<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4 106 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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5 106 112<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6 113 115<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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7 118 120<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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8 117 116<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9 113 98<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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10 108 99<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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11 109 103<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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12 110 97<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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113 114 101<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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14 .115 102<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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15 120 103<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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16 118 108<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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17 118 112<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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18 116 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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19 120 115<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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20 119 117<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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21 114 113<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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22 119 105<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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23 118 117<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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24 119 120<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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25 116 108<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Totals … ‘4079 4106<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aroragoa … 107*34 108’05<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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