HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1930, Page 3

HEAT WAVE

105 AT SYDNEY

lAustralian Press Association)

SYDNEY, Feb. 22. * Sydney swell ereu yesterday, and it is doing the same to-day. L st night- way tire hottest night for two years. The minimum teniperutiu'e t I'Oi.g.i tile liigho was 73 degrees with 84 per cent humidity. That was at lo.:r oVock this morning. Tile midnight temperature was 79 degrees. The thermometer was up to this again at six this morning, and - it climbed quickly till nine o'clock, when the reading was 93 degrees. These are the highest 9 a.m. figures since 1922. At 10 o'clock the thermometer read 95.7 degrees. A wind change from the north-east to the north-west brought a hot hi: st IToiii the interior. The urban p..ptilatio;.s are migrating on masse, where po si'.le, to the beaches.

UP TO 110 DECREES

ONE DEATH, AX'D MANY

COELAPSE

SYDNEY, Feb. 23

Yesterday’s belt wave was responsible i 6l cmie de-.t;!, while iil'ty persons (ollap-td. A , ”.h'daiiccs were lyusy in many of the suburbs.

Tim. fi’-"' brigades wore also ibrnsy, the latter, in some cases, had fa be alarms, owing to the extreme lieat setting the patent alarn s in operation.

Pool cry suffered extensively. Thou sands arc reported dead in the Parramatta and adjacent districts. There was a dust pall, which made the day dull, and caused much additional discomfort and distress both i ’ the ePy and in the country.

Many places have reported the therm e! r ".t over on- hundred. . At the weather station in Sydiie ■. the outside temperature recorded at three o’clock in the afternoon was 110.5 degrees, at which it refnained ill four o'clock. Then it dropped steadily to one hundred degrees at 7 o’clock anu to 80 degrees at 10 o’clock. There was a thunderstorm about turno'clock. This brought a few drops of rain, but it soon passed and the promised southerly had not arrived this (Sunday') morning, though the Meteorologst expects it to-day.

105 AT SYDNEY

SYDNEY, Feb. 23

The temperature at Sydney progressed steadily yesterday until at noon it had reached 101.5 degrees in the shade. It remained in the hundreds for the next three hours, with a maximum of 105.3 at two o'clock. -

Manv scrub fires are reported in the subunban areas.