{"id":5432,"date":"2023-11-17T02:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2023-11-17T02:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:36:26","slug":"hot-winds-dust-storms-over-whole-of-victoria-17-nov-1948-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5432","title":{"rendered":"HOT WINDS, DUST STORMS OVER WHOLE OF VICTORIA. 17 Nov 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOT WINDS, DUST STORMS OVER WHOLE OF VICTORIA (1948, November 17).\u00a0The\u00a0Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 1. Retrieved November 17, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/27766193?searchTerm=dust%20storms%20victoria&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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MELBOURNE, Tues.-Melbourne\u2019s highest temperature since March 25, dust storms in the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mallee, mists in Bass Strait, and 60 m.p.h. gales at King Island, today were caused by hot northerly winds extending over the whole of Victoria.<\/div>\n
At 1.10 p.m. Melbourne\u2019s temperature was 89.5 degrees, 18.2 above normal and only 0.8 deg. less than on March 25.<\/div>\n
The reading at 3 p.m. was 88 degrees.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Shortly after midday the velocity of the wind in the city reached 57 m.p.h.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Weather Bureau does not anticipate the expected westerly change to cause a sharp drop in<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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temperatures tomorrow.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A major breakdown in communications between Melbourne and all places north of the Mur-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ray occurred about 6 p.m. today, when a severe electrical and wind storm blew down nearly a dozen telegraph poles near Wangaratta.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Late tonight there was still no communication with Wangaratta, Albury, Sydney, and Newcastle.<\/div>\n
With these channels out, the P.M.G. telephone and telegraph sections were faced with no channels to send Brisbane addressed telegrams from Melbourne.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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An old Morse line from Melbourne to Sydney through Mildura, and a circuit to Brisbane through Darwin were brought into operation to clear up arrears of urgent telegrams.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Normally teletype machines are used.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Information on the storm was very meagre in Melbourne because of lack of communications. The Weather Bureau had not received any reports tonight from the affected areas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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An Essendon airport official said pilots had reported a storm near Wangaratta and Albury, but it did not affect flying schedules.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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