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“HEAT WAVE Extremes in India
RECORD OF 124 DEGREES
CALCUTTA, Thursday. An unprecedented heat wave in southern India has taken a heavy toll. Thatch roofs ignited under the heat. At Khammamett in Hyderabad, a record temperature of 124 degrees was registered. A temperature of 116 was common over a wide area. Animals and birds are dying in thousands. In Assam, on the contrary there has been heavy rain, and at Cheerapunji, the wettest place in the world, 23 inches of rain fell in one day”

08 Jun 1935 – HEAT WAVE – Trove

Earlier in the year the same area experienced record cold.

“INDIA UNDER FROST
Record Low Temperatures
Many Deaths from Pneumonia
CALCUTTA, January 15. India is feeling the effects of a spell of intense cold that swept North America and Europe, and the Punjab, Sind, and Rajputna, which normally record the highest Indian summer temperatures of 129 degrees in the shade, at present rivers and wells are frozen and the temperature is five degrees below freezing point, which is unprecedented. The cold has caused hundreds of deaths from pneumonia in the north- west and Central India, and it is feared may lead to an outbreak of smallpox and other diseases. Record low temperatures occurred in Calcutta and Bombay.”

17 Jan 1935 – INDIA UNDER FROST – Trove

“Thursday 20 June 1935, page 19
DROUGHT HAVOC IN INTERIOR

Rabbits and Drift Ravaging Land
CLIMATE CHANGE

UNLESS there is an unexpected increase in rainfall, and some means is devised of checking the ravages of rabbits, thousands of square miles of country in Central Australia, Western Queensland, and New South Wales will be abandoned, according to Mr. S. D. Reid, manager for Sir Sidney Kidman, after a 4,000-mile tour of Sir Sidney’s properties in these areas. Mr. Reid said that practically all the properties he visited were suffering severely from drought. Along the Cooper and in the north-western corner of New South Wales the drought had been almost unbroken since 1931.”

20 Jun 1935 – DROUGHT HAVOC IN INTERIOR – Trove

“Thursday 18 April 1935, page 43
DUST STORMS IN U.S.A.
Whole Country Affected FREAK WEATHER EXPERIENCED

Wheat Imports May Be Necessary

The effect of the mid-western dust storms became virtually nation-wide today, when a thin haze was noted over New York, while vast clouds of dust are being swept from the Pan-handle section of Texas across the New Mexico and Arizona, threatening the gardens of Imperial Valley, California, which hitherto was immune. From Kansas City, which is the centre of the eroded area producing the dust storms, a report declares that there is a temporary calm, giving planters a chance to “dig out,” but there is no immediate hope of rain, which is necessary to bind the loosened top soil, and the swirling dust clouds may start again at any moment. From Clayton, New Mexico, the United Press correspondent reported to-day that a wall of dust “at least 10,000 feet high” struck the area. Propelled by a gale, it advanced with ‘the speed of a high-powered motor car.” The correspondent added:— ‘When it struck I was unable to see my hand before my face. The whole area was buried in soil, while drifts of dust against barns and houses rose to a height of two to three feet. Roadways were obliterated.’

Drought conditions on the Great Western Plains are reported by the Department of Agriculture to have been even worse on April 1 than on a similar date in 1934, and unless there is an improvement the United States may be forced to import wheat in the coming winter.”

18 Apr 1935 – DUST STORMS IN U.S.A. – Trove

“Wednesday 8 May 1935
QUEENSLAND’S DISASTROUS DROUGHT.

It is estimated that between 5.000.000 a lid 6,000.000 sheep are bleaching in the dry creeks and plains between Charleville, Tambo. Blackwell, Longreach, Barkleline, Winston and Hughenden owing to the drought. This is Queensland’s greatest setback in the history of her pastoral industry.”

08 May 1935 – QUEENLAND QUEENSLAND’S DISASTROUS – Trove

“Wednesday 8 May 1935, page 3
UNPRECEDENTED WIND AND RAIN STORMS.
STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY.

A state of public* calamity was proclaimed yesterday after five consecutive days of unprecedented wind and rain storms. It is believed that 60 persons have been killed, while unofficial estimates run as high as 400. For the whole district over !,000 persons are homeless. Five hundred buildings have been demolished, including some of the finest architectural treasures. Repeated landslides on the mountainside above the city have occurred. The lower part of the city is flooded.”

08 May 1935 – UNPRECEDENTED WIND AND RAIN STORMS. – Trove

The Netherlands has lots of windmills, so they should be OK without natural gas.

Russia may halt gas supplies to the Netherlands — RT Business News

Saturday 28 September 1935, page 23
HUNDREDS DEAD  IN TYPHOON
75,000 HOMES LOST
Destruction in Japan
A Government communique states that 200 persons were killed in the typhoon that swept over Klouslou Island of the Tokio region on Thursday, The missing number 105 in addition to 52 sailors who are believed to have been drowned when the typhoon caused a collision between four destroyers and an aircraft carrier during manoeuvres.

“Think of the earth, artists think of the earth. All artists think of the earth. That’s why I did it”

Man Tries To Vandalise The Mona Lisa

In 2011, the BBC announced that 2011 was the deadliest year for tornadoes, because people didn’t know how to count accurately before 1950.

Barack Obama: Joplin tornado ‘a national tragedy’ – BBC News

We built the atomic bomb in 1945 and were actually quite good at counting before 1950.

Tornado – an overview (pdf) | ScienceDirect Topics

By 2021, the press determined that the 2011 outbreak was the deadliest in history.

10 years since the deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history

Back in the real world, the 2011 outbreak didn’t rank in the top ten over the past century.

Top 10 Deadliest American Tornado Outbreaks of the Past 100 Years | WatchMojo.com

Microsoft Word – Tornado Outbreak Day Sequences _22nd SLS Oct 2004_ Schneid…

The worst tornado outbreak may have occurred in 1896.

“The tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896 was a series of violent and deadly tornado outbreaks that struck much of the Central and Southern United States from May 15 to 28, 1896. It is considered one of the worst tornado outbreak sequences on record with tornado expert Tom Grazulis stating that the week of May 24–28 was “perhaps the most violent single week of tornado activity in United States history”.[1] There were four particularly notable tornado outbreaks during the two-week period. It produced three F5 tornadoes as well as the third deadliest tornado ever in United States history. A total of 484 people were killed during the entire outbreak sequence by at least 38 different tornadoes which struck Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.”

Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896 – Wikipedia

On May 28, 1972 I testified at a Congressional subcommittee meeting held at Kanab, Utah in support of a wilderness area.

“May 28, 1972
Road, Wilderness Topic of Debate on Glen Canyon

“Seven congressmen, more than 70 witnesses and 350 supporters packed the sweltering Kanab High School gym for the day long hearing”

28 May 1972, Page 12 – at Newspapers.com

People keep saying how bad it would would be if Lake Powell dried up.  I’ve been hoping for that ever since the canyon was flooded almost sixty years ago.

The second hottest July in the US occurred in 1901.

2 Jul 1901, Page 1 – The St Louis Republic at Newspapers.com

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The 1901 heatwave killed thousands of people in New York.