WELCOME RELIEF
VICTORIAN HEAT WAVE BREAKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 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 the temperature still at 82.3 degrees was the lowest reading, which was 25.6 degrees above the normal night temperature and actually 4.2 degrees above the normal maximum heat of a January day. A strongnortherly rose early in the morning. By 9 a.m. today the mercury rose to 91.6 degress, but the maximum was reached half an hour later—9s degrees —after which a change set in. 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1940, Page 5
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138WELCOME RELIEF Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1940, Page 5
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