THE WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1047, 10 February 1882, Page 2

THE WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA.

• The excessive heat of yesterday (January 19) was of most unusual intensity From the earliest hour of the morning a hot north wind blew without interruption at the rate of about twenty miles an hour until 3 p.m., when, after chopping about several times, it settled into a south-easter. As usual in a high wind the dust enveloped the city, and the sun

seemed to shine down with increased ardour. The highest temperature in the shade duridg the day was HOBdeg., while in the sun it attained to 159deg. This is the highest temperature experienced since December 15, 1876, when it reached 110'7deg. in the shade. This is but little less than the highest recorded during the last twenty-four years, which was on January 14, 1802, when the thermometer marked lll'2deg. in the shade —in other words, only o.7deg. higher than yesterday's record. At nine o'clock last night the barometer was steadily rising, with the thermometer at 77*3deg. The intense heat appears to have been general throughout Australia. At Geelong the glass registered 104deg. in the shade, 122deg. in the sun, shortly after noon. At East Carlton the thermometer in the Shire office registered 120deg., and 142 in the sun. A telegram from Sydney says that the heat there has been excessive, and that a famine in the interior is anticipated. At Albury, New South Wales, during the week ended January 23, the heat was more Bevere than has ever been experienced for so long a time by the white settlers, 112deg. in the sliade*-<kiring day time, and over 90deg.' all night, having been quite common temperature. It is not too much to say that the greater half of the population of the town have been unable to sleep inside their houses for the week. Telegrams from South Australia report bush fires in all directions, and large losses of live stock.