{"id":6446,"date":"2025-01-21T02:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2025-01-21T02:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:59:26","slug":"the-heat-records-21-jan-1908-dimboolas-since-the-1st-to-the-8th-inclusive-are-90-101-101-101-102-102-100-105-74-79-83-90-97-103-107-110-110-etc-43-3-celsius-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6446","title":{"rendered":"THE HEAT RECORDS. 21 Jan 1908. Dimboola\u2019s, since the 1st to the 8th inclusive, are, -90, 101, 101, 101, 102, 102, 100, 105, 74, 79, 83, 90, 97, 103, 107, 110, 110, etc. = 43.3 Celsius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE HEAT RECORDS. (1908, January 21).\u00a0<i>The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 \u2013 1954)<\/i>, p. 3. Retrieved January 21, 2025, from <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/72806519#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/72806519#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">(To the Editor of the Horsham Times.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Sir,-The official readings of the Horsham Meteorological Observatory appear to read exceedingly high when compared with those of towns further north, and in previously hotter<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">district.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">At one time Dimboola possessed a very bad reputation as a hot place,- but now, it occupies a back position, and is quite a charming resort as compared with 120 degrees.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">In view of the late controversy at the council table it would be interesting to compare Horsham\u2019s readings, both ,the authorised and Ryan\u2019s corner, with the authorised readings at Dimboola.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">I guess that. Ryan\u2019s corner and Dim seems strange that the towns further north should just be a degree or two above or, below Dimboola, whereas Horsham\u2019s\u2019 \u201cauthorised\u201d goes up like a balloon.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">If it would interest your readers a comparison could be made of the three readings. Dimboola\u2019s,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">since the 1st to the 8th inclusive, are, -90, 101, 101, 101, 102, 102, 100, 105, 74, 79, 83, 90, 97, 103, 107, 110, 110, etc.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">This record is not taken in a beautifully cool municipal hall, like Warrnambool\u2019s, but in the Government shade box. We write to try and establish Diniboola\u2019s prestige as a heat rival to our now formidable antagonist, Horsham.-Yours, etc.,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">\u201cCOOL.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HEAT RECORDS. (1908, January 21).\u00a0The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 \u2013 1954), p. 3. Retrieved January 21, 2025, from [&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":[1742,1741,21,1417,351,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446"}],"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=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}