1893 : Severe Drought And Heat In Queensland

4 Responses to 1893 : Severe Drought And Heat In Queensland

1. Lex says:

   August 4, 2011 at 9:05 am

   Wow Steven you are digging a lot. You should do one master article where all of these pieces are on one page.
   Keep up the good job.

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2. Ivan says:

   August 4, 2011 at 10:07 am

   …and before that:
   “THE INTENSE HEAT IN ENGLAND IN JULY
   A correspondent writing from Clifton under date July 24, says :—” I have to-day recorded a shade temperature of 91.3 deg. Twice only before to-day, during eighteen years, has the temperature at this place reached 90 deg. On August 2,1856, it was 91.4 deg , and on August 4, 1868, it was 90.2 deg. The dryness of the air has been even more remarkable than the heat, being entirely without precedent during my course of observations. At 3 p.m. the dry bulb thermometer stood at 89.7 deg..”
   ~July 1870
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18749054?

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3. Ivan says:

   August 4, 2011 at 10:16 am

   …and this:
   “MORTALITY IN CONSEQUENCE OF INTENSE HEAT.
   Intense heat has been experienced in New York, causing great mortality. Above 100 infants under one year have died daily during the past week. The deaths occurred mostly in tenement houses. Twenty-one persons are known to have died from heat in Philadelphia.”
   ~Aug 1876
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/42999945?

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4. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   October 20, 2011 at 6:46 am

   Between 1850 to 1970 any warm event is weather and cold was climate. After 1970 any cold event became weather and warm became climate.

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