OPPRESSIVE HEAT

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1931, Page 5

OPPRESSIVE HEAT

HESITATION IN AUSTRALIA. TEMPERATURE REACHES 115 DEGREES. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 30. Extreme heat records are reported in many places in the South and the West. Pooncarie, in the far West of New South Wales, had 110 degrees at ten o’clock yesterday morning, rising later to 115 degrees. White Cliffs, the opal field centre, and Wileannia each recorded 111, Wentworth 110, Menindie 109.5, while Broken Hill, with 108 degrees, registered over one hundred for the Uftli successive day. Narrowmine also exceeded the century mark for the fifth successive dny. Many other country records in this State exceeded the hundred. The temperature at SVdney was only 'seventy-seven, but the humidity was very high, and rendered conditions oppressive. 1 Adelaide reports that Tuesday was the hottest day for fifty-one years with .114 6 degrees, and the four previous days were all above the hundred. The water consumption at Adelaide is normally sixteen and a-half million gallons daily, but it jumped to forty millions. , High registrations, many over one hundred degrees in the, shade, were recorded Victoria. Perth noted its eighth successive day bordering on one hundred degrees.