{"id":4950,"date":"2023-03-25T03:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2023-03-25T03:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:07:50","slug":"victorian-heat-wave-record-for-march-at-mildura-11-march-1940-the-highest-recording-n-melbourne-was-102-5deg-and-victorias-hottest-town-was-mildura-which-established-an-all-time-march-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4950","title":{"rendered":"VICTORIAN HEAT-WAVE. Record for March at Mildura. 11 March 1940. The highest recording n Melbourne was 102.5deg, and Victoria\u2019s hottest town was Mildura, which established an all-time March record of 109deg. 42.7 Celsius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIAN HEAT-WAVE. (1940, March 11).\u00a0<i>The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 &#8211; 1954)<\/i>, p. 12. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/46361598?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&amp;searchLimits=#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/46361598?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&amp;searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">MELBOURNE. March 10. -With phenomenal weather conditions over almost the whole of southern Australia, Victoria simmered today in temperature exceeding 100deg.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">Wilson\u2019s Promontory, with a maximum temperature of only 65deg., was the only part of Victoria today where the maximum was below the century.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">The highest recording n Melbourne was 102.5deg. and Victoria\u2019s hottest town was Mildura, which established an all-time March record of 109deg.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">There is no change within sight and State-wide bushfire warnings were issued tonight by the Weather Bureau.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">Many fires were reported today and, if conditions continue, there may, with a hot northerly wind, be serious danger tomorrow in several areas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIAN HEAT-WAVE. (1940, March 11).\u00a0The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 &#8211; 1954), p. 12. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/46361598?searchTerm=march%20heat%20wave&amp;searchLimits=# [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[187,21,44,1254,952,1273,46,1272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950"}],"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=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}