{"id":3734,"date":"2021-12-24T03:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2021-12-24T03:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:52:20","slug":"heat-in-melbourne-24-dec-1920-at-10-30-this-morning-the-mercury-topped-the-century-in-the-centre-of-the-city-and-gradually-mounted-till-it-reached-107-deg-at-2-30-p-m-41-6-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"HEAT IN MELBOURNE 24 Dec 1920. At 10.30 this morning the mercury topped the century in the centre of the city and gradually mounted till it reached 107-deg. at 2.30 p.m. = 41.6 Celsius."},"content":{"rendered":"

“HEAT IN MELBOURNE” Sunraysia Daily (Mildura, Vic. : 1920 – 1932)<\/i> 24 December 1920: 3. Web. 24 Dec 2021 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/258578873?searchTerm=Record%20Heat%20december#<\/a><\/p>\n

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December Record for Twenty three Years<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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An unusually high temperature was recorded at Melbourne today. At 10.30 this morning the mercury topped the century in the centre of the city and gradually mounted till it reached 107-deg. at 2.30 p.m. It then commenced to recede, but at six o’clock was still over 100-deg. and<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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two hours later was still abnormally high.<\/div>\n
At Melbourne Observatory the highest reading was 105.9- deg. at 3.30 p.m. Today’s reading<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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was the highest since February, 1919 and never during the past twenty three years has the mercury risen so high during December.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“HEAT IN MELBOURNE” Sunraysia Daily (Mildura, Vic. : 1920 – 1932) 24 December 1920: 3. Web. 24 Dec 2021 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/258578873?searchTerm=Record%20Heat%20december# […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[861,21,131,551,112,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}