{"id":681,"date":"2019-10-30T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=681"},"modified":"2019-10-30T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:56:08","slug":"early-heat-wave-record-for-october-26-1914-south-australia-102-2-f-39-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"EARLY HEAT WAVE RECORD FOR OCTOBER 26 1914. South Australia 102.2 F = 39 Celsius"},"content":{"rendered":"

“EARLY HEAT WAVE.” The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929)<\/i> 26 October 1914: 4. Web. 30 Oct 2019\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/59271371?searchTerm=october%20heat&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Very hot weather, with strong northerly winds, prevailed over the greater part of South Australia on Saturday, and the temperature at several places exceeded 100 deg.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the city the mercury rose rapidly, and by midday had reached 100.8, thus beating the previous highest for October which occurred in 1859.<\/div>\n
The temperature continued to mount upwards until 1.30 p.m., when the maximum was reached.<\/div>\n
The instrument then read 102.2 deg.<\/div>\n
Towards evening a slight south westerly change set in, and the temperature fell to 71deg. at<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9 p.m., and reached a minimum of 59.6 at 3 o’clock on Sunday morning. Sunday was fairly warm, the thermometer registering 80.8<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Record heat for October was also experienced in Melbourne and Hobart.<\/div>\n
In the former city, the mercury rose to 99 deg., the previous record being 96.1 deg. on<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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October 30, 1885, and in the latter it reached 92 deg., the previous highest being 91.5 deg. in 1845.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Meteorological Department reported last night:-<\/div>\n
The area of low pressure, which brought on it’s advancing side this heat wave, has passed away to the east. and a “high” is now advancing, it’s centre being situated over the ocean to the south<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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of the Great Bight.<\/div>\n
Accordingly, fine weather, with cool to moderate temperatures may be expected on Monday, with<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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south to east winds.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Our Sydney correspondent telegraphed on Sunday:-<\/div>\n
The weather has been very warm for the past two days throughout the State.<\/div>\n
At Sydney to-day a shade temperature of 92.9 deg. was recorded, while<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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at Parramatta the reading was 98 deg.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“EARLY HEAT WAVE.” The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929) 26 October 1914: 4. Web. 30 Oct 2019\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/59271371?searchTerm=october%20heat&searchLimits=# Very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[217,647,21,85,131,551,406,617,458,616,46,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}