HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY. 16 Mar 1915. “This month has so far proved the hottest March experienced in Sydney. To-day was a decided scorcher. The thermometer went to 100.7 degrees in the city, while in the western suburbs higher readings still were recorded. Parramatta had 104 degrees.” That’s 40 degrees Celsius in March. Imagine how “unprecedented” that would be if it happened now.

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HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY. 16 Mar 1915. “This month has so far proved the hottest March experienced in Sydney. To-day was a decided scorcher. The thermometer went to 100.7 degrees in the city, while in the western suburbs higher readings still were recorded. Parramatta had 104 degrees.” That’s 40 degrees Celsius in March. Imagine how “unprecedented” that would be if it happened now.HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY (1915, March 16). Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), p. 10. Retrieved March 29, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/33593685?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&searchLimits=#
HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY
Sydney, March 8.
This month has so far proved the hottest March experienced in Sydney. To-day was a decided scorcher.
The thermometer went to 100.7 degrees in the city, while in the western suburbs higher readings still were recorded. Parramatta had 104 degrees.
It was a very dry heat, with an exceptionally low percentage of humidity. Much dust was carried by blistering westerly and north-westerly winds.
A change had been promised for to-day, but the Weather Bureau officials say this change has unexpectedly been held up at about Moruya.
For to-morrow the forecast is more hot winds with prospects of a cool change, which is so much desired in Sydney.
It was oppressively hot in the city to-night. Inland too the weather is hot and dry.
A temperature of 105 degrees is reported from Bourke and 106 degrees from Jerry’s Plains.
Sydney. March 8.
To-day’s exceedingly hot weather was accompanied by a record number of fires in the surround-
ings of Sydney.
In twelve hours the fire brigades in the metropolitan area received fifty-two calls, of which thirty-eight came in eight hours. Many of the outbreaks were in the bush, and besides resulting
in the destruction of thousands of acres of scrub and much fencing they perilously endangered a large number of dwellings. It was only by the gallant efforts of volunteers, in addition to the labours of the firemen, that many families were not rendered homeless.
At the western side of Manly three shops were burned to the ground. The damage is estimated at £5000.
A telegram from Newcastle states that very extensive bush fires caused the destruction of a railway bridge on the northern railway lines, and that passengers on the Brisbane express mail train had to be transhipped from one train to another.