{"id":646,"date":"2019-10-22T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=646"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T04:27:39","slug":"phenomenal-heat-11-oct-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"PHENOMENAL HEAT 11 Oct 1921"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHENOMENAL HEAT (1921, October 11). Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved October 22, 2019, from http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article174225227<\/p>\n

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PHENOMENAL HEAT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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London, October<\/span> 8.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A great part of Europe has been literally sizzling for the past week, Southern England particularly. The<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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mercury is smashing records. Wednesday’s and Thursday’s temperatures were 5deg. higher than on the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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hottest day in 1920.<\/div>\n
The newspapers are devoting columns daily to the remarkable conditions, which are a subject for picturesque journalism “Chill October,”<\/span> has been re-named “Grill October.”<\/span> At the seaside gaiety prevails,” but in the cities south of the Tyne millions of people are sweltering throughout the day and night.<\/div>\n
There is a mild epidemic of influenza throughout the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Among other effects of the heat <\/span>wave is the cancellation of to-morrow’s Rugby League matches in London owing to the hardness of the ground.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The foundations at St. Norman’s Church, Upwood, famous as the burial place of members of the Cromwell family, have sunk, causing wall fractures.<\/div>\n
The walls of London houses are cracking.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Several prominent racehorses have been withdrawn from Autumn events because it is impossible to train<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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them on the hard ground. Londoners, also Australians in London, are tiring of the oppressive and prolonged<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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summer. Hopes for cooler weather are raised by reports of flood storms in Scotland and the Scilly Islands.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Phenomenal heat<\/span> is reported from Paris, where the temperature has broken the record standing since 1757.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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