{"id":120,"date":"2019-08-25T05:41:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=120"},"modified":"2019-08-25T05:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:41:39","slug":"heat-waves-fri-feb-8-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Heat Waves Fri Feb 8 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Heat Waves (120deg. F = 48.888C. Birds fell dead from the trees)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read clicked\">&#8220;A. :H.&#8221;Evandale:-The present burst of heat recalls hot days of the past.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Fifty years ago there were some very hot, dry summers. The thermometer hovered round the century frequently. An old diary states that it was 120 degrees in the shade in Adelaide. on January 2, 1867. In those summers children were often afflicted with sore eyes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">A vivid description is given of Black Thursday, which occurred on February 6 1851. It states that the air was charged with smoke and thick black dust. It was so dark that drivers of vehicles had to lead their teams about the streets. All business places were closed, Scaremongers declared it to be the end of the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Australia had never seen anything like this before: nor has it since. The whole of the country was enveloped, and no one seemed to know at the time where the black dust came from. But it had all<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">cleared away before night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">The heat was so Intense that birds fell dead from the trees and many persons were sunstruck.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/129219082?searchTerm=heat%20waves&amp;searchLimits=#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/129219082?searchTerm=heat%20waves&amp;searchLimits=#<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/heatwavesfrifeb81929.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/heatwavesfrifeb81929-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/heatwavesfrifeb81929-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/heatwavesfrifeb81929-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/heatwavesfrifeb81929-1024x554.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/heatwavesfrifeb81929.png 1054w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat Waves (120deg. F = 48.888C. Birds fell dead from the trees) &#8220;A. :H.&#8221;Evandale:-The present burst of heat recalls hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}