{"id":5753,"date":"2024-02-15T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2024-02-15T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:30:09","slug":"heat-causes-14-deaths-124-degrees-at-white-cliffs-sydney-thursday-12-jan-1939-124-deg-f-45-5-celsius-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5753","title":{"rendered":"HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS 124 Degrees At White Cliffs SYDNEY. Thursday. 12 Jan 1939. 124 deg F = 45.5 Celsius"},"content":{"rendered":"

HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS (1939, January 12).\u00a0News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 \u2013 1954)<\/i>, p. 7. Retrieved February 15, 2024, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/132166258?searchTerm=heat%20causes%2014%20deaths#<\/a><\/p>\n

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FOURTEEN\u00a0deaths<\/span>\u00a0and many collapses were caused by the\u00a0heat\u00a0<\/span>wave yesterday and today.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Deaths<\/span>\u00a0were:-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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John Clines, 80, of Cobar; William Holding, a pioneer resident of Wentworth; Peter Griffiths. 68. of Chullora; William Williams 76, of Wilcannia; Rowley Moulds. 50, dairy hand of Windsor; Mrs Dinah Mendes, 80 of Wagga; J Felthouse. pensioner, of Billabong, nee Urana; James Williamson, 21, of Dural (killed in a fall when he collapsed while working). R. Reid from Ravensfield Station. near Ivanhoe; a man named Goodman, or Darnick Siding near Ivanhoe: Mrs Donald McDonald, of Hillston; Henry George Hewitt, of Hunthawang Station near Hillston; Michael Hayes of Hillston; and Francis Pitts. Mycumbene Station Bolligal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Inland towns are still roasting and looking hopefully for a break in the\u00a0heat<\/span>\u00a0wave, which may come at the weekend.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sydney today became hotter as the humidity eased off under the pressure of a southerly which sprang up last night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Yesterday\u2019s highest temperature in the State was 124 deg at White Cliffs, only one degree below the State\u2019s all- time record held by Bourke.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A thermometer in one Bourke hotel was registering 122 deg at 10 a.m today. Ivanhoe\u2019s night temperature remained at 110 deg. until early this morning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ivanhoe\u2019s temperature early today was 108 deg.- the thirtieth successive day over the century.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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About 40 of the New South Wales Weather Bureau\u2019s 95 inland reporting stations have in the past three days broken their all-time temperature records.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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