{"id":3991,"date":"2022-03-02T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2022-03-02T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:09:00","slug":"march-1-begins-heat-wave-07-mar-1942-the-first-day-of-march-marked-the-beginning-of-a-burst-which-quickly-dried-up-any-germ-of-an-idea-that-summer-was-over-109-deg-f-42-7-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"MARCH 1 BEGINS HEAT WAVE. 07 Mar 1942. The first day of March, marked the beginning of a burst which quickly dried up any germ of an idea that summer was over. 109 deg F = 42.7 Celsius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 1 BEGINS HEAT WAVE (1942, March 7). <i>West Coast Sentinel (Streaky Bay, SA : 1912 &#8211; 1954)<\/i>, p. 4. Retrieved March 2, 2022, from <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/168358119?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&amp;searchLimits=#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/168358119?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&amp;searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-info\">\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"19838337\" data-x=\"4006\" data-y=\"1985\" data-w=\"798\" data-h=\"554\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">February was a wonderfully cool month. There were one or two warm days, but nothing like the usual run of exhausting heat.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">However, Sunday, the first day of March, marked the beginning of a burst which quickly dried up any germ of an idea that summer was over.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">The temperature on that day reached 104 deg. Monday was even hotter, the mercury climbing to 109 deg., while Tuesday and Wednesday again saw 104 deg.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read clicked\">Hot nights did not bring relief at Streaky Bay, where the recordings were made.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 1 BEGINS HEAT WAVE (1942, March 7). West Coast Sentinel (Streaky Bay, SA : 1912 &#8211; 1954), p. 4. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1255,21,877,1254,285,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991"}],"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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}