HEAVY RAIN IN SYDNEY

Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1948, Page 5

HEAVY RAIN IN SYDNEY

Rmvveil Wednesdav, 7.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 14, The n.iJdav tempernture in tiydney ■tcday i>7 0b degrees, was the Jowest Jus. lary i oou rending ever reeorded by the Weather Bureau. lleavy rain diemhed the eity all day and the ro were inlerruptions to the electricity Mipply. _ Plooding is threatened on the south •■oast aird in Quceuslaud. Weailuw experts predict tlie possi liilily that the weather eyele will con tinui* until August, precipiatijig tioods 'in a reconl scale. The well-knowji weather foreeastor, M r. inigo .Jones, who predicted tlie preseut » el spell, says there will be a dry jm riol l'oljowed by mure rain abovu January 2U. Xine years ago today Sydney had its all time record hottest day of 113.0 degrees.

The eontimied rain has already cost Now South Wales up to 30,UU0,(JO0 bushels of wheat, worth at least £1 s, ooo, (ino, and ewery sliower nieans i'urther loss. Tlie quality of the re maiiiing wheat has suifered consider ably. llowever, the rain has meant the best season for pastures for 50 years. It is 'daiined that tliis is the longest Deeeiuber-.lanuary wet spell for 71 years. Snow is 1'alling 011 the Australian Alps, and at Mount fvosciusko guests were alile to ski yesterday. A Pa 11 Anierican elipper upproarhiiig the Quueiislaiid eoast I'non San Eraindsco llew thrmigh a snow storm. A storm struek • the waterfront 01 two suburbs of Brisbane, uprooting trees, smashing windows, 'and ripping iron from roofs. Three children and a young woman were in.jnred. At Mudgee a waterspout dashed rowing boats against the sea wall. At (.'ardwell, 75 passengvrs have beon living in earriages of a Brisbane Cairns train since Sunday, and man\ of tliem are runuing short of nioney. 1 he train has Jieen stranded since flood-w aters isolated ('ardwell, and it will be unable to resunie its journey foi at least two days.