HOT WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2549, 31 August 1893, Page 3

HOT WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.

Says the Edinburgh correspondent of the Otago Daily Times: The extraordinarily dry and warm season we have had this year culminated in a day of overpowering heat on Sunday, June 18. The churches were largely deserted, and even in the streets there wore comparatively few people about during the hottest part of the day. The tar used in causewaying the tram lines bubbled up and in some places trickled away in streams. The thermometer rose to 85-9 deg in the shade—a record which has been exceeded in Edinbargh only five times during the last 72 years. The day before was almost equally hot, On it the heat so twisted the rails on the Dichty viaduct of the Dundee and Forfar district railway that a train had to pull up, and was. detained for two hours Had it left the rails there the results would have been terrible, the viaduct being of a great height. Some of the passengers would not enter the train again,pref erring to walk, On the 22nd the weather changed 3 and rain fell heavily for 30 hours. Sinpe then there have been many heavy showers, but in spite of everything of the kind the country still has a brown look. The rain came too late to save the hay crop, and on account of the scarcity of feed prices", of stock ha.ve, fallen very much. From all accounts, however, the drought has nowhere been so severely felt in Scotland as in England. The rain came just in time to save the turnip crop \n Scotland. During the few days a batter N.E. wind has been ftay_ ing the Edinburgh lieges, making people almost sigh for a return of the hot days, they vveW &Q glad, to be delivered from so recently.