THE HEAT WAVE.
RECORD TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY. The temperature registered yesterday, 99 degrees, constitutes a record for this district. At 9 o’clock tho thermometer showed 91, and gradually rose until about noon it registered’ the high figure of 99 degrees in tho shade. < This is exceedingly high for Gisborne, when the- cCosc proximity of the ocean and tho two rivers is considered, which naturally conduces to a more humid heat and consequently lower temperature. Some distinction of course must ho made between “in tho shade” as it is on a hot verandah or say in a room on the sunless side (f a house, but even'ill the very coolest room, with t‘he wind blowing through, the glass read 85 degrees yesterday. Popular belief is to the effect that the bush fires in tho surrounding country are in a measure responsible for tho extreme heat. Archdeacon Williams, however, is of the opinion that such is not tho case. In fact, it is just the opposite, as the smoke coming from tho fires to a certain extent shuts off the fierce rays of tho sun
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2067, 19 December 1907, Page 2
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