Summer in Melbourne.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2909, 27 February 1893, Page 2

Summer in Melbourne.

The " Age " of February 10 has three I columns of items about a hot day on the i Oih, with a strong wind, a ' brick-fielder.' i The news is headed with an account of | the weather in Melbourne : —It was more | like a revelation from another world yesterday than a phenomenally hot day, for when -morning broke the town was < literally a huge oven, over which the i skies hung inverted in flaming sheets of brass. The streets were yellowtornadoes of whirling dust, whilst waves of heat that seemed almost visible met the discomfited wayfarer everywhere, and very early in tha day manypeople emphatically professed to have solve I the problem of whether life was worth living. The wind was from the north and the heat from eVerywJiere, and towards 7 o'clock the rays of the sun, which could only now and then be seen, showing fiery red from the blinding hage thfifc enveloped jt, beat down still more fiercely. At that hour the thermometer registered 103 degrees of heat in the shade, w.Hilst in the sun the mercury showed 148 degrees. The wind whs raging along with great velocity, and when matters wore at Ihejr most unendurable pass the force, of it wa§ registered as Js*j miles an hour. As may be easily imagined, this had the effect of raisjng a tremendous sea in the Bay, but all the ship's at the wharves and ah r cljorage rode out the gale in safety. Per: haps the extreme cl^cqmfort of the weather was experienced in the city and sugh suburbs as Port Melbourne, Albert Park, and St Kilda, and in the lattar place especially existence for some hours became peculiarly disagreeable, whirling clouds of sand and dust filling evnry open space and street. About midday the heat became loss painful, and in the city the rqarinjj business that had been transacted i'li^Whbleis In the morning L b^gan to slacken.' By 3 o'clock the worst of the unwelcome visitation fyad been endured, and shortly after a cool wind fspm ttye south springing up, th.c trials o| the day were Ht »n end«