HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY 24 Mar 1899. 90.4deg. in the shade 32.2 Celsius.
HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY. (1899, March 24). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 5. Retrieved March 28, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9508432?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&searchLimits=#
HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY.
A heat wave raced Sydney to-day, causing the thermometers to register 90.4deg. in the shade. This heat, though much less than was recently recorded in the southern capitals, was far more enervating, owing to the huge percentage of moisture in the atmosphere.
Mr. Russell says that only a dozen times in the history of the colony has a higher March temperature been recorded in Sydney, and if the lateness of the month is taken into account,
to-day’s heat will go very close to constituting a record.
In the evening a cool change set in from the south.