HEAT WAVE ENDS. Dec 18 1942 Maximum temperature of 101.1deg = 38.3Celsius. In the tropics Whim Creek was again the highest with 113deg. = 45 Celsius.
HEAT WAVE ENDS. (1942, December 18). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved December 18, 2024, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47358630?searchTerm=Record%20Heat%20december#
Close to December Record.
The heat wave which ended with a maximum temperature of 101.1deg on Tuesday was close to the record for December but failed to equal it on Wednesday by the narrow margin of 0.3deg. The record periods of 9 successive days in December on which the temperature exceeded 90deg occurred in 1909 and 1931.
On Wednesday the temperature in Perth did not exceed 89.7deg. During the week which ended at 9 am on Wednesday the mean maximum temperature in Perth for the period was 98.2deg, which is 17deg above the average for the month. The mean minimum was 71.5deg, which is 10.6
above the average for December.
A report issued by the Weather Bureau yesterday stated that, although cooler conditions were general over the south-western divisions on Wednesday, temperatures were still high throughout the re- mainder of the State except on the coast. On the Coolgardie goldfields
readings of 108 and 109 were almost general and the century was considerably exceeded in the northern and eastern agricultural areas and the Gascoynes.
In the tropics Whim Creek was again the highest with 113deg, Marble Bar registering 112. Cape Leeuwin recorded only 72 and Albany 74.
During the week which ended at 9 am on Wednesday the only rain fall in excess of 20 points was as follows: Wyndham, 139 points; Anna Plains, 64: Coomberdale, 57; Roebourne, 38; Kondinin, 37.