A Hot Day in Victoria.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7076, 23 February 1893, Page 3

A Hot Day in Victoria.

' The Age of the 10th inst. bus three columns of items about, a hot day on the 9tb, with a strong wind, a *'biick-fh'lder." The news is headed with an account of the weather in Melbourne It was more like a revelation from another world yesterday than a phenomenally hot day, for when morning broke the town was literally a huge oven, over which the skies hung inverted in flaming sheets of braes. The streets were yellow tornadoes of whirling duet, whilst waves of heat that •eemed almost visible mot the discomfited wayfarer everywhere, and very early in the day many people emphatically professed to have solved the problem of whether life was worth living. The wind was from the north and the heat from every where, and towards 7 o’clock the rays of the sun, which could only now and then be seen, showing fiery red from the blinding hnzs that enveloped it, beat down •till more fiercely. At that hour the thermometer registered 103 degrees of heat in the shade, whilst in the suu the mercury showed 148 deg. The wind was roging along with great velocity, and when matters were at their most unendurable pass the force of it was registered as 55 miles an hour. As may be easily imagined, this had the effect of raising a tremendous sea in the Bay, but all the ships at the wharves and anchorage rode out the gale in safety. Perhaps the extreme discomfort of the weather was experienced in the city and such suburbs as Port Melbourne, Albert Park and St. Hilda, and in the latter place especially existence for some hours became peculiarly disagreeable, whirling clouds of sand and dust filling every open «pace and street. About midday the heat became less painful, and in the city the roaring business that had been transacted in the hotels all the morning began to slacken. By 3 o’clock the worst of the unwelcome visita tion bad been endured, and shortly after a cool wind from the south springing up, the trials of the day were afc an end.