Victoria Swelters in Heat Wave
Record Water Consumption RAIN BRINGS RELIEF United Presq Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 11.15 p.m. MELBOURNE, an. 5. Victoria experienced welcome relief from the heat wave which covered the State this week. Thursday night was the second hottest night experienced in Melbourne in 83 years of recorded weather history. Midnight, with a temperature of still 82.3, was the lowest reading, which was 25.6 degrees above the normal night temperature and actually 4.2 degre&s above the normal maximum heat for a January day. A strong northerly arose early in the morning and by 9 a.m. to-day the mercury rose to 91.6, but the maximum was reached half an hour later at 95, after which a change set in and the temperature fell to 75 at 3 p.m., when heavy rain fell for two hours. There was an all-time city water consumption record on Wednesday of 166,000,000 gallons.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 7
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