{"id":899,"date":"2019-12-04T05:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=899"},"modified":"2019-12-04T05:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T18:32:52","slug":"stock-destroyed-by-cold-unprecedented-december-weather-28-dec-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"STOCK DESTROYED BY COLD UNPRECEDENTED DECEMBER WEATHER. 28 Dec 1907"},"content":{"rendered":"

“STOCK DESTROYED BY COLD” The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 – 1954)<\/i> 28 December 1907: 6. Web. 3 Dec 2019https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/242036196?searchTerm=cold%20december%20weather&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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SHEEP AND CATTLE SUCCUMB.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This Christmas season has already furnished us with two weather records, and now we have to announce a third.<\/div>\n
Christmas Day won the hottest ever experienced in Victoria, and the fall of rain from Thursday evening has been the heaviest over known.<\/div>\n
Now we learn that last night was the coldest in the month of December in the memory of the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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oldest residents in the Diggers Rest district\u2014 60 bitterly cold, Indeed, that large numbers of sheep and cattle perished from exposure to the low temperature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A well-known and reliable resident of the district to-day forwarded to us a memorandum to the effect that this morning sheep and cattle were lying dead In all directions, having perished<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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from the intense cold of last night. Mr John Higgins, whose farm is near the township of Diggers’ Rest, lost seven head of dairy cattle.<\/div>\n
We have no information as to the lowest temperature during the night on the plains, but the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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fact of stock dying in this way is sufficient evidence that the night at Diggers Rest must have been the coldest ever experienced so near Melbourne in December.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The rainfall at Diggers Rest has also been greater than in Melbourne. Up till this morning the record had reached 5 inches 20 points.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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