{"id":6487,"date":"2025-01-14T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2025-01-30T02:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:33:17","slug":"the-heat-wave-14-jan-1896-january-13-will-be-long-remembered-as-new-south-wales-black-monday-the-following-list-shows-how-widespread-was-the-area-of-high-temperature-within-this-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"THE HEAT WAVE. 14 Jan 1896. January 13 will be long remembered as New South Wales’ “Black Monday.” The following list shows how widespread was the area of high temperature within this colony :\u2014 Kiama 117 = 47.2 Celsius"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE HEAT WAVE. (1896, January 14). Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 2. Retrieved January 30, 2025, from\u00a0http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article44132383<\/a><\/p>\n

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THE HEAT WAVE.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[BY TELEGRAPH.]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A Sydney-side ” Black Monday.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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” A Scorcher” Everywhere.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Death and Distress.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SYDNEY, Monday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 13 will be long remembered as New South Wales’ “Black Monday.” Here and there higher readings have been got from the thermometer ; but the people were already exhausted by a spell of terribly severe weather.<\/div>\n
From one end of the colony to the other and from side to side the same story comes\u2014scorching and dazzling or stewing and killing heat. The following list shows how widespread was the area of high temperature within this colony. :\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kiama .. 117<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lawson – … 101<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mulgoa … 113<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Moruya … 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Molong … 102<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Newcastle … 96<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nowra … 114<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nymagee .. 115<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Oberon … 95<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Parramatta … 111<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pambula … 101<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Parkes … 106<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Penrith … 112<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Quirindi … 120<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Robertson … 102<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rmd. Terrace 106<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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St. Mary’s … 109<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Scone. 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Singleton … 104<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Springwood … 101<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tenterfield … 103<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tamworth … 109<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Wagga … 112<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Wollongong… 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Windsor … 107<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Young … 108<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Araluen … 106<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Armidale … 93<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Albion Park… 114<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bellingen … 109<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bathurst … 104.8<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Braidwood … 105<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bourke … 103<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bega … 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bowral … 98<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bulli. 103<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Berrigan … 107<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Broken Hill … 110<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Crookwell … 101<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Cooma … 105<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Camden … 100<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Condoblin … 116<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Candelo … 106<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Clifton … 109<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Cobar. 115<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dapto… … 113<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Deniliquin … 104<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dubbo … 103<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Forbes … 111<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Grafton … 104<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gosford … 105<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Goulburn … 107<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hornsby … 104<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At Ultimo, near the city, a thermometer set under a passion-tree vine<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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registered 123.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Business in the city was almost suspended. Many works were discontinued.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is estimated that during the 24 hours between 19,000,000 and 20,000,000 gallons of water was drawn from the city service ; and the hotel saloons, cool-drink shops, and milk ” palaces ” were the favorite resorts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Even the street urchins neglected the sale of their papers to improve their acquaintance with the ice cream man.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What would have happened if in the evening a southerly ” buster” had not sprung up it is not pleasant to contemplate. The ” buster ” increased to a gale, tearing along at the rate of 53<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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miles an hour ; and what would have been viewed with alarm generally was taken as a godsend in view of the rapidly falling thermometer.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is not very often that the elements interfere with the working of the post office ; but yesterday they did. The delivery of letters was considerably delayed\u2014not that most people cared,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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because they had no hope of doing any business and pleasure was unthought of. Many cab horses were stricken and fell in the street, seriously interfering with traffic. The ‘bus company<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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changed the horses each trip. The deepest regret of the drivers was that they could not be changed also.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The bathing places were chock-a-block. Fifteen hundred people visited Cavill’s baths at Manly, to mention only one resort, and that not the handiest of the many of its kind.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Professor Anderson Stuart, medical adviser to the Government, says it is satisfactory to know that the sanitary arrangements of the city are excellent, so that the heat will not seriously<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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affect the public health. “I was prostrated,” he says, ” while a brother doctor remarked that the weather suited him immensely\u2014he never felt better in his life.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. H. C. Russell, Government Astronomer, says that the primary cause of the heat is the heating of the interior plains on account of the sun shining on them through a clear<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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atmosphere. Under such circumstances, he adds, the temperature of the soil rises frequently to 140.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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