{"id":5355,"date":"2023-10-24T04:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2023-10-24T04:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T17:20:40","slug":"three-hot-days-october-heat-wave-01-nov-1921-102-3-deg-f-39-celsius-a-record-breaking-trinity-of-hot-days-has-occurred-this-is-how-the-thermometer-has-soared-during-the-past-10-days-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5355","title":{"rendered":"THREE HOT DAYS October Heat Wave. 01 Nov 1921 102.3 deg F = 39 Celsius. A record-breaking trinity of hot days has occurred. This is how the thermometer has soared during the past 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

THREE HOT DAYS. (1921, November 1).\u00a0The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929)<\/i>, p. 4. Retrieved October 24, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/63352463?searchTerm=october%20heat&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

A record-breaking trinity of hot days has occurred. This is how the thermometer has soared during the past 10 days:\u2014
\nOctober 21 67
\nOctober 22 65
\nOctober 23 66
\nOctober 24 81
\nOctober 23 87
\nOctober 26 84
\nOctober 27 75
\nOctober 28 84
\nOctober 29 98
\nOctober 20 97
\nOctober 31 94
\nThe sting is in the last three. The State Meteorologist (Mr. E. Bromley) said on Monday:\u2014 \u201cWe have never had three consecutive days running a temperature over 96 deg., in October.<\/p>\n

Exactly two years ago on Monday the thermometer touched 102.3, which is the highest ever noted for October, in October, 1914, a couple of hot days ranging near the century occurred.<\/p>\n

The average temperature for October is about 75 deg. , and the first three weeks of October was about 4 deg. below normal, but last week the reading averaged about 85 deg. Fortunately the heat was dry. Of course business houses did not complain about the weather, for it livened up trade, and everybody rushed to don lighter wearing apparel. The beaches on Sunday were swarming with hundreds of people, who were having their initial \u2018dip\u2019 for the summer.<\/p>\n

From an agricultural point of view the dry heat will check any onslaught of rust in wheat. The conditions will cause a rapid ripening of the grain, and improve its quality, but the yield will be reduced accordingly. The conditions are seasonable, but unfortunately there are many late sown crops this year, and further rain would have been acceptable now. The flower gardens have suffered, and sweet peas and roses will soon have spent their bloom.
\n\u2014\u2019A Change Approaching\u2019\u2014
\nThe Meteorological Bureau issued the following report at 9 p.m. on Monday:\u2014
\nDuring the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. to day, light to moderate rain fell generally in Tasmania, and over tho south-western coastal districts and agricultural areas of Western Australia. Continued fine and warm to hot weather was experienced in South Australia to-day; the maximum temperatures ranted from 66 deg. at Cape Northumberland and 79 at Cape Borda to 103 at Eucla and Forbes Bay. The thermometer at Port Augusta rose to 101, and at Snowtown and Kapunda the highest shade readings were 97 and 96 respectively.
\nIn Adelaide the maximum and minimum temperatures were 94.7 and 66.8 respectively. At 9 a.m. to-day eastern Australia was covered by two anti-cyclones, with their respective centres over Tasmania and in south-eastern Queensland. The low pressure disturbance was located over the ocean between Cape Leeuwin and Eucla, while another \u2018high\u2019 was seen to be moving over the central part of Western Australia. . At 3 p.m. the \u2018low\u2019 was noted as an extended system reaching eastward into the Bight as far as Streaky Bay.<\/p>\n

The anticyclone following is moving eastward along the northern edge of the depression, and by 3 p.m. it had produced a shift of wind to the west, accompanied by a fall in temperature of 28 deg. the 3 p.m. temperature being 75 deg. With the continued eastward procession of these two systems tomorrow warm to hot and sultry weather, with northerly winds, will be experienced in South Australia at first, followed later by a cool south-westerly change, with scattered showers and thunderstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THREE HOT DAYS. (1921, November 1).\u00a0The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929), p. 4. Retrieved October 24, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/63352463?searchTerm=october%20heat&searchLimits=# […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[217,560,60,21,112,559,458,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355"}],"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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}