HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY
PEOPLE PROSTRATED
AMBULANCES BUSY
feYDNEY, 23rd February. The temperature in Sydney progressed steadily yesterday until at noon it hud reached 101.5. It remained in hundreds during the nest three hours with a maximum of 105.3 at 2o'elock.
Tho heat was responsible for ■-. one death, while 50 persons collapsed. Tho ambulances were busy jn many suburbs.- .Fire brigades were ' also busy, though the latter in' some cases received false alarms owing to the extreme heat sotting the patent alarms in operation.
Poultry suffered extensively, and thousands are reported dead in Parrainatta and adjacent districts.
A dust pall made the day dull and caused much additional discomfort and distress both in the city, and in the country. , -
Many places reported the thermometer over 100.- ' -.-'!• , ;
At the weather station in Sydney the outside temperature recorded at 3 o'clock i. the afternoon was 110.5, at which it remained till 4 o'clock, then it dropped steadily to 100' at 7 o'clock and 80 at 10' o'clock.
A thunderstorm at about 9 o'clock brought a few drops of rain, but it soon passed. ', •■ • . ; ' ■
, The promised, southerly had not ar rived this morning,- though the .Meteorologist expects it to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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196HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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