{"id":143,"date":"2019-08-27T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=143"},"modified":"2019-08-27T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:16:41","slug":"heat-waves-compared-21-feb-1914-116deg-f-46-6667-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Heat Waves Compared 21 Feb 1914 (116deg.F = 46.6667 Celsius)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HEAT<\/span> WAVES<\/span> COMPARED:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Just now, while citizens are wondering if anything worse than the present heat<\/span> wave could be experienced, it is interesting to recall that this wave is but a ripple compared with earlier ones, some of which should still be within the memory of all the community. Wednesday put up a record for the season and registered the highest temperature ever known in Adelaide during the month of February, with<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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three exceptions. On February 12, 1899, the maximum shade reading was 113,6 deg., and on February 1 and 2, 1912, the thermometer showed 112.6 deg. and 112.8 deg. on consecutive days. The record of 116.3. deg. was established on January 26, 1858. ‘ The highest shade temperature of recent years<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Was 114 deg. on December 31, 1904. But when speaking of beat spells, those who\u00a0 think two or three consecutive registerings\u00a0 of 100 or more something of an achievement, must take off their hats to the me-mory of what their ancestors put up with for there was a spell of 10 days in 1858 which will long challenge all-comers, file consecutive daily readings on that occasion<\/div>\n
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January 21 ….93.8
\nJanuary 22 . 103.0
\nJanuary 23 . 110.7
\nJanuary 24 . 1O9.0
\nJanuary 25 . 113.0
\nJanuary 26 . 116.3
\nJanuary 27 . 112.2
\nJanuary 28 . 107.8
\nJanuary 29 . 109.4
\nJanuary 30 . 107.1
\nBut in January, 1908, there were two spells which \u2014 though neither was so severe as that of 1858\u2014 together look very imposing.\u00a0 The month began us follows:-
\nJanuary 1 …. 97.7
\nJanuary 2 .. 105.0
\nJanuary 3 .. 101.9
\nJanuary 4 .. 107.9
\nJanuary 5 .. 108.3
\nJanuary 6 .. 108.8
\nJanuary 7 .. 108.4
\nJanuary 8 …..90.3
\nThen cool weather intervened for three days, after which, another heat<\/span> wave came
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\nJanuary 12 …. 93.6
\nJanuary 13 .. 102.2
\nJanuary 14 .. 107.3
\nJanuary 15 .. 111.5
\nJanuary 16 .. 110.4
\nJanuary 17 .. 110.3
\nJanuary 18 .. 110.5
\nJanuary 19 .. 110.9
\nJanuary 20 .. 92.4
\nDuring the second spell Clement Hill and Roger Hartigan kept the Englishmen in the
\nfield while they put up two or three hundred runs and won a test match for Australia.<\/p>\n

That January month has a mean temperature of 94.7 deg., but February. 1857, holds the record for mean heat.<\/span> Only on three days of that month was. the temperature below 90 deg. The normal mean temperature of February is 86.1 deg., but this month has an average of 93.6\u2014 six days have registered over 100, and five over 105. Only twice previously had there been five or more days in the month of\u00a0 February with a shade maximum of over 105 deg. Such extensive heat<\/span> is not locked for in this month, because the period of daylight now is much shorter than in early January.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/88835222?searchTerm=heat%20waves&searchLimits=#<\/p>\n

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