Thought I would start a thread on 'Historic News Articles about Climate Change' so as not to clutter up the 'Interesting news articles about AGW' thread. Post about climate, ice-melt etc.

NOTE: Only post 'historic' news articles here please. Supply links only if you wish.

To start the ball rolling;


"WORLD HEATING UP."
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"ICE DISSOLVING AT POLES."
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"SEA WILL RISE 40 FEET."
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(Communicated.)

The world is gradually becoming both warmer and drier. One day the great Polar icecaps may melt - raising the level of the oceans from 40 to 50 feet, and wiping half of England from the map.

These suggestions were made by Sir Douglas Mawson (the famous Polar explorer) and Dr. C. E. P. Brooks (of the British Meteorological Office), who is a leading authority on the effect of Polar conditions on climate.

"This warm-up process is slow," said Sir Douglas. "In fact, all we may expect is a rise in average temperature of 2 or 3 degrees Fahr. each 1000 years."

ICE AGES.

We are approaching the end of the Pleistocene ice age. The ice has left the British Isles, most of Scandinavia, and most of Iceland. But it lingers around Greenland and still covers the Poles. In time it may all melt, and there will be no ice — even at the Poles. Such periods have probably occurred
several times in the earth's history.

Dr. Brocks declared: The present masses of ice at the Poles have an area of about 3,500,000 square miles and their average thickness approaches 2000 feet. If all this ice melts the level of the ocean will rise from 40 to 50 feet.

CONDENSATION.

"The smaller the amount of ice the drier the world's climate will tend to become, as ice is one of the chief causes of the storms that 'bring us rain.' If the sea were to rise 50 feet many large and important parts of England would cease to exist."

SUBMARINES.

All central London and most of the suburbs along the Thames Valley would be under water. Essex and Suffolk would have a new coast line, running, as a rule, several miles inland from the present one, and the Norfolk Broads would become part of the North Sea. In place of the Wash there would be a huge inlet covering the Fen country, and Cambridge, Lincoln, and Doncaster would become seaside resorts.

Not much would be left of East Riding, of Yorkshire, and Lancashire, too, would become a mere shadow of its former self. Holyhead would rise in solitary glory from what had been Holy Island, and the sea would as relentlessly flow over most of Anglesey. Cardiff and Longhnor would be badly embarrassed by a new and broader British Channel, the Severn Estuary would run up to Worcester and a new estuary would cut Somerset in half.

EXCEPTIONS.

Of England's southern counties only Cornwall and Devon would escape, for Dorset, around Pool, Hampshire, near and including Southampton and Portsmouth, and Sussex in its western corner would all be submerged, while the Isle of Thanet would once again be cut off from Kent.



Cairns Post - Saturday 3 February 1934

Science Answers The Poser: Are Our Seasons Changing?

"Funny weather we've been having these past few years." We often say this in idle conversation, but how right are we? Are the seasons really changing?

Last summer in Sydney it was so cold that ice cream sales dropped 50 per cent below normal. Melbourne had similar trouble.

From April 1 to the end of July this year, Perth had 63 wet days compared with an average for the period of 56.

The seasons have become so mixed in Queensland that retailers are seriously considering the alteration of traditional dates for launching seasonal selling campaigns.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has tangled with the question of our apparently changing seasons and produced answers for at least the south-east portion of Australia—portion of South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales.

In those regions over the past 35 years the days have been growing cooler and the summers wetter.

Researchers found that average maximum day temperatures over the last 35 years have been between 2deg. to 4deg. lower than in a previous period.

Not So Exciting

This looks a very exciting discovery until the scientists point out that a couple of degrees hardly matter a jot. On a warm day, try to pick the difference between 79deg. and 81deg. and you will see the point.

The C.S.I.R.O. measured over a span of 70 years. Take a wider span of 90 years and you find that in Melbourne over the first 58 years of that period the average temperature was 58.5deg. The average over the whole 90 years was 58.5deg. Exactly the same.

Sydney can sing a similar song to this. For the last 50 years the average mean temperature had been 63.5deg.; for the 50 years before that it was 63deg.

Our seasons are changing a trifle, but only a negligible trifle.

What makes us mistake that the change is considerable is the outpourings of old-timers who remember "endless sunshine" in their youth and forget the rainy days.

To discover significant climatic change you must study centuries and not decades. Then you'll find that the world has been slipping in and out of "little ice ages" for several thousands of years.

Slow Process

At the moment we are slipping out of one. The process is very slow and undramatic in any period much less than a century. Few effects are visible in Australia, but there are significant changes going on in the northern hemisphere. Europe has become about 2 deg. warmer in the past 50 to 100 years. The glaciers are slowly melting and receding. Ships can move over the White Sea for a month more each year than they could formerly. Russia's North Sea lanes are now open eight months a year instead of three. In Greenland, melting ice is uncovering farms abandoned by farmers when an ice age developed in medieval times. Cod, herring, and other fish are moving far into northern waters to the delight of the Eskimoes.

Since 1850, half the water in the great Salt Lake in Utah, U.S.A., has evaporated.

All this represents the first big climatic movement man has been able to measure with accurate immediate observation.

What has caused the heating up? You can take your pick of a hatful of answers.

Mixed Theories

Most popular is solar radiation — the sun getting hotter — but don't insist on an explanation.

Johns Hopkins University experts suggest that the carbon dioxide gas sent into the atmosphere by the coal and oil we burn forms a gas envelope round the earth and prevents the heat waves that come from the sun from bouncing back again.

Also, there is the proposition that subterranean heat is mainly responsible. Most of this heat will ultimately be released in volcanic eruptions. Meanwhile, it quietly warms the earth, melting glaciers and ice.

Relatively slight temperature changes in the northern hemisphere can considerably alter climate. But in the southern hemisphere, big temperature variations would be necessary to make a marked difference. We have no local ice to melt.

We are, however, affected by what happens to the Antarctic ice cap to our south.

It is only over very, very long periods that climate varies greatly on the earth.

Sixty million years ago the climate on this planet of ours was just about the same as it is now. Scientists say they can guarantee this calculation to within 5 per cent either way.

The Atom Bomb

Backyard climatologists in Australia felt they were on to something big after the atom bomb exploded at the Monte Bello Islands last year.

Although it was summer, Sydney promptly froze. Melbourne's normally windless December turned on 60 m.p.h. gales. It was too cold to swim at Perth's surfing beaches.

This surely was climate gone crazy. But did the A-bomb cause the conditions?

The scientific answer is that to keep one moderate hurricane going you would need the energy of up to 50 atom bombs per second for a period of up to a week.

Anyhow, why should we complain so much about our weather and climate?

Our coldest capital city is Canberra, which averages 44deg. in winter, and holds the record low recording of 18deg.

Call that cold? Moscow is the coldest capital in the world, averaging 14.7deg. London is 40 deg., and Paris 38deg. The coldest spot anywhere is the Siberian village of Verkhoyansk, where temperature was once 95 deg. below zero.

The coldest ever recorded in Australia was 8deg. below at Charlotte Pass in 1945.

If your complaint is that our climate gets too hot because the average summer temperature in our capitals is 72deg., be grateful you don't live in Azizia, Libya, the hottest spot on earth, where 136deg. has been recorded.

In World Class

Should rain be your pet aversion, we have a few spots in the Commonwealth you might well dodge. They are in world class.

Crohamhurst in the Blackall Range, Queensland, collected 35.7in. of rain in 24 hours in February, 1893. Only one other place in the world has ever beaten that effort.

To settle that trouble-making argument about which of our capital cities has the most pleasant climate, investigators recently compared them on a points system. Points were awarded for humidity, wetness, hotness and coldness.

If one city had won in all sections, it would have had the least humidity, least wetness, and would have been the coolest in summer and warmest in winter. And it would have had a total of 24 points.

No capital won in all sections. Adelaide, however, came top with 18 points.

It has least humidity and wetness and was middle in the list for coolness in summer and warmth in winter.

Perth and Hobart both came second with 15 points. Brisbane and Melbourne were equal fourth with 13 points.

Sydney ran a bad last with 10 points.

Still it's not much good worrying about the weather. We've got to take it just the way it comes for nothing we can do can alter it.



The West Australian - Tuesday 18 August 1953

ADELAIDE HEATWAVE

Adelaide, Friday. - After the second prolonged heat wave within a month, in which on one Thursday, the shade temperature reached 110.3 degrees; Adelaide is now revelling in a cool change.

Northern Territory Times - Friday 22 January 1932



Adelaide Heatwave
ADELAIDE, Wed.— Maximum temperature of 109.6 at 1.50 p.m. yesterday gave Adelaide its third successive century in one of the hottest March bursts on record.

The Daily News - Wednesday 4 March 1942

Heatwave Continues

The heat wave on the south-west coast intensified yesterday, Perth's maximum rising to 98.2, 17 degrees above normal, and 2.5 higher than the previous day.

Guildford recorded 103, Maylands 100. Maximum at Northam was 101, at Mullewa and Walebing 100.

Highest reading was 107 at Marble Bar.

Even as far south as Collie, the temperature rose to 99.

Bridgetown recorded 96, Manjimup 93.

Night and early morning readings were very high, Perth's minimum of 72 being almost two degrees higher than on the previous night.



The Daily News (Perth) - Friday 11 December 1942

In Greenland, a secret air base

Mail London Office

Commander Courtland Simpson, leader of Britain's new combined services polar expedition, has just arrived back in London.

He paid a two-day visit to a secret air base in Greenland.

He is making final arrangements for airdrops of food and fuel to the 25 explorers taking part in the expedition — the biggest and most import ant since Captain Scott's, in 1912.

The expedition, which will stay in Greenland for two years, includes scientists who will measure the thickness of the great Greenland ice cap known to be at least two miles deep in places.

Said Simpson: "Recently the glaciers have been melting at an in creased rate. We want to guage the exact speed of thawing. We have calculated that if the entire icecap should eventually melt, the sea-level throughout the world would rise 17 ft."

"This would flood every port and thousands of square miles of land. The Danes are particularly in terested as they adminis ter Greenland and quite a lot of Denmark is less than 17 ft. above sea level."

The team will also try to prove that Greenland is not the world's biggest island. Sounding tests may show it to be a scattered ring of mountainous islands.

The exploration will cost £65,000.



The Mail (Adelaide) - Saturday 28 June 1952

HEATWAVE IN U.S.A.

Six Deaths Caused

An unprecedented heat wave has been recorded in the Mid-West, resulting in six deaths and many prostrations.

Some schools in Indiana were closed today, and thousands spent the day on the beaches instead of attending their occupations.



The Daily News (Perth) - Friday 16 September 1927



Heatwave in U.S.A.

NEW YORK, Saturday.-A heat wave extended south and westward, covering two or three States, and causing 150 deaths. Temperatures in excess of 100 were reported. Many communities in Boston wore worst sufferers, 30 deaths resulting.



Advocate (Tas) - Monday 12 July 1937

An egg was fried on the sun-heated pavement in a New Jersey (USA) town during a recent heat-wave.



Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) - Wednesday 26 September 1928

HEAT WAVE.
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U.S.A. IN THE GRIP
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Many Deaths Reperted
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NEW YORK, Saturday.

The United States of America is in the grip of a heat wave, which is taking toll of life, particularly in the large cities, with the thermometer still mounting. Nogales, Arizona, reported a temperature of 112, while New York, with 91 and a high humidity, saw much suffering, particularly due to congestion in the subways owing to the strike. Thousands are sleeping in the parks and crowding the beaches in an effort to get relief. Three persons are already reported dead, and hundreds prostrated. Chicago reported 93 degrees, 10 persons dead and many prostrated. The heat in many places in the Middle West was accompanied by tornadoes. A storm swept through Indiana, Southern Michigan, resulting in six deaths. The New England States also suffered much from heat, 98 degrees being reported at Springfield, Mass.


Sunday Times (Perth) - Sunday 11 July 1926

Europe, U.S.A. Hit By Heat-wave

From Our Staff Correspondent And A.A.P.

LONDON, July 4.- Western Europe and North America sweltered yesterday in a heat-wave.

Reports from big cities told of day-long queues outside bathing pools and of mass treks to the country and seaside.

Maximum shade temperatures were:- Lisbon, 100.4 degrees; Paris, 82.4; Holland (inland), 79; Berlin, 68.

Chicago. 102.4; Cleveland, 98; and New York, 95.

London today began its 21st day without rain. Weather experts say that there is no immediate sign of the drought ending.

Electricity rationing has been reimposed in northern Italy, because the drought has lowered rivers and reservoirs supplying hydro-electric plants.

Car manufacturers at Detroit, U.S.A.. said walk-outs by employees during the week because of the heat resulted in a loss in production of nearly 10,000 cars.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that a plague of locusts, covering 3,000 square miles, was eating its way over grazing lands in Nevada.

Another horde was devastating farm land in California.

Drought in the north-east of the United States has caused losses estimated at 20 million dollars.


Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday 5 July 1949

THE ICEBERG POLICE.
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Protecting Atlantic Shipping. By Stanford Tate.
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THE iceberg police are now getting ready for the season. As soon as the first iceberg enters the Atlantic shipping lanes, a patrol cutter will leave Norfolk, Virginia, for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to begin the annual task of protecting trans-Atlantic traffic from the iceberg menace.

The International Ice Patrol was established after the Titanic's collision with an iceberg in 1912, a disaster that cost 1,500 lives. The expense of maintaining the patrol is shared by fourteen maritime nations in proportion to the tonnage flying their flags. America provides the cutters and the men. At first only one small coast guard cutter was allocated to this duty, but now there are four - three available for active duty and one in reserve. At the height of the ice season there are always two cutters on duty.

Arctic icebergs are born at the average rate of about 2,000 a year in Greenland. which is little more than a vast ice factory. An average berg contains about half-a-million cubic feet of ice. Reckoned in cubic feet, the annual ice output of Greenland reaches astronomical figures. Rivers of ice flow slowly down the valleys and debouch into open fiords where the ice runs into the water, preserving its continuity with the parent mass until the surge of storm waves separates a piece from the glacier.

The birth is accompanied by a thunderous roar that echoes and re-echoes among the deserted heights, and the berg adjusts itself to its new centre of gravity sometimes with such force that a wave 20 feet high is created. The berg then floats away to join the mighty procession that, propelled by the Arctic Current, skirts the coast of Baffin Land [Baffin Island?] and Labrador, and finally swings past Newfoundland into the Gulf Stream.

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FORTUNATELY not all the icebergs born in Greenland reach the Atlantic Ocean. Some linger on the way, playing hide-and-seek in bays and inlets. Bergs that swing too close in shore usually ground in the shallow water and stay there until they disintegrate.

The number of icebergs that reach the Atlantic is governed to a large extent by the presence or absence of fringe ice along the coast of Baffin Land. If the shore line is icebound, this obstacle fends the bergs off and keeps them in deep water. If the coast is free from ice, the set of the current tends to carry the bergs in shore.

April is the month of maximum ice off Newfoundland. In May, June and July the bergs continue to drift slowly southward across the five steamship tracks until, eventually, they enter the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, when rapid dissolution begins.

Few icebergs ever melt entirely away. Most of them sink, a curious statement in view of the known fact that ice is lighter than water. It must be remembered, however, that an iceberg while attached to its parent glacier scrapes slowly over miles of land, picking up rocks, boulders, and earth, all
of which become firmly embedded in its substance. In the Gulf Stream an iceberg loses mass very quickly, particularly at the water-line where waves are continually fretting at the ice. Finally there comes a moment when the remaining ice can no longer sustain the weight of the solid matter frozen in it. Then the iceberg, or what is left of it, founders.

Some icebergs obstinately avoid the Gulf Stream. They circle slowly and persistently in a large ocean eddy formed by the junction of the Arctic Current with the Gulf Stream. Such icebergs become "growlers" or low-lying masses of rotten ice so weathered and dirty that they are virtually invisible except in bright sunlight. The name "growler" derives from the noises' emanating from them, the wash and rumble of the sea in underwater caves, the groaning and grumbling as pieces of ice break off.

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ONE section of the Ice Patrol, the scientific staff, stays on duty all the time, transferring always to a vessel on active service. The most important member of this department is the oceanographer. His task is the location of bergs before they drift within dangerous distance.

Various instruments are used. A salinity machine is usually able to detect an iceberg at a distance of two miles. Composed as they are of fresh water ice, the melting bergs surround themselves with fresh water, which being lighter than salt water, remains on the surface. Any diminution in the salt content of the sea is a fairly reliable indication that bergs are in the neighbourhood.

Another instrument works on the same principle as the hydrophone, which is used for the detection of submarines. "Growlers" can be detected by the ear alone, but the noises made by younger bergs are picked up under water and amplified. Various attempts have been made to destroy bergs that loiter in the steam ship lanes and will not "move along." The coastguard cutters carry guns and these are occasionally used to blow a berg to pieces but the method is very expensive. Dynamite and other explosives are pitifully inadequate against the huge bulk of an iceberg. More recently experiments have been made with thermit, a mixture of aluminium powder and iron oxide.

The special quality of thermit is the terrific heat it generates when ignited. This is believed to convert the solid ice into its component gases of hydrogen and oxygen according to one theory, and the mixture explodes. Certainly a charge of thermit ignited in an iceberg sends flaming gases hundreds of feet high. The effects are not immediately apparent. The iceberg is split and cracked in all directions but it does not at once fall to pieces. Its disintegration is completed by the action of the sea.

Few bergs are destroyed. The normal procedure is to watch every one that drifts into the steamship lanes and to issue wireless bulletins giving its latitude and longitude at frequent intervals. This information enables ships to steer clear of icebergs. The success of the method may be estimated from the fact that there has been no death in a collision with ice since the establishment of the International Ice Patrol.


The West Australian (Perth) - Saturday 18 February 1939

HEAT WAVE IN U.S.A.

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RELIEF IN EASTERN STATES BY BREEZES FROM ATLANTIC
(Reuter's Message.)

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Vancouver, June 8.
A message from New York states that the backbone of the heatwave in the eastern States was broken on Monday by breezes from the Atlantic, temperatures falling as much as 40 degrees in five hours. A total of 149 deaths on Sunday brought the total to over 400. Relief also came the the Middle-West, but the storms did considerable damage in several States.



Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) - Tuesday 9 June 1925

"Estimate of the Global Change in Temperature. Surface to 100mb, between 1958 and 1975", JK Angell & K Korshover, Monthly Weather Review April 1977




http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493%281977%29105%3C0375%3AEOTGCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2


These are the radiosonde stations used:


These are the determined surface observations, and comparison to previous studies:

WILL EARTH GET WARMER?

Scientist Has New Theory

More than eighteen years of observing the fluctuations of Arctic weather conditions in the fifty-eight Soviet scientific stations in the Far North, writes the Moscow correspondent of the "Observer" (London), lead Russian meteorologists to a forecast of warmer winters and hotter summers for the North and South Poles.

They believe that the earth is entering a new cycle of warmer weather.

A series of curious discoveries have been announced in support of this theory. It has been noted that year by year, for the past two decades, the fringe of the Polar icepack has been creeping northward in the Barents Sea.

As compared with the year 1900, the total ice surface of this body of water has decreased by twenty per cent.

Various expeditions have discovered that warmth-loving species of fish have migrated in great shoals to waters farther north than they had ever been seen before.

Recession of the Barents Sea ice fields have been verified in recent years by numerous vessels of the Soviet mercantile marine plying between Murmansk and Spitzbergen.

These phenomena had at one time been attributed to a supposed swerve in the course of the Gulf Stream which had brought an increased volume of warm waters to the Polar basin. Russian scientists are now inclined to correlate the changes to the general warming up of the planet.

The Gulf Stream theory does not explain the rising temperature of the waters of Baffin Bay and the Bering Straits, according to Soviet experts. It does not seem to account for the fact that the rivers of Norther Siberia freeze over later and thaw earlier than they did two decades ago. Nor does it explain the fact that the zone of Arctic subsoil, which has been rigidly frozen since the Glacial Age, is receding northward in Siberia so that at the city of Mezina it is now forty miles farther north than it was in 1829.

There is also the unexplained phenomenon of the rise in air temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere at Bombay, Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town.

"Remarkable Changes"

"Our generation is living in a period when remarkable changes are taking place almost everywhere throughout the world," writes Professor L. Berg, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. "'Certainly these widely distributed phenomena cannot be due to the action of the Gulf Stream, which, however, naturally receives its share of the greater general warmth."

The slow thawing of the Arctic is given as a partial explanation for the record voyages of Soviet ice-breakers to northern latitudes, which have never before been reached by navigating vessels. The Sadko in 1935, in ice- free water of the North Kara Sea, steamed to 82 degrees, 42 minutes of northern latitude—an all-time record.

The Yermak, which at the opening of the century was unable even to penetrate the fringe of ice-fields jamming the South Kara Sea, last year sailed northward in the Laptev Sea, turning back only after it had exceeded the Sadko mark by twenty-four nautical miles, at 82 degrees, 6 minutes.

The general warming of the earth seems also to account for the loosening up of the huge cape of ice on the roof of the world.

Floating Laboratory

This was shown in the drift of the Papanin Ice-Floe Expedition, which for nearly a year studied Arctic conditions from its precarious floating laboratory. The party of four youthful scientists in their spectacular drift from the North Pole to the Greenland Sea found that the Polar ice-pack is moving approximately twice as fast as expected from earlier observations.

Again, research buoys, dropped into the Kara Sea to study Polar sea currents, indicated a movement to the coast of Greenland and Iceland two to three times more rapid than recorded movements several decades ago.

This gradual loosening of the Polar ice-cap has led such Arctic experts as Professor Vise to forecast that the ice-breaker Sedov, now adrift in the Polar ice-pack following a course similar to but more northerly than that of Nansen's Fram, will be carried along much faster than the Fram, shortening the crossing of the Arctic Ocean to a little over two years.

1938 Records

The Fram took three years. Professor Vise believes that the Sedov, which was trapped in the icefields north of the New Siberian Islands more than a year ago, should reach the Greeland Sea by the end of this year, carried by the same ocean stream that bore the Papanin party.

The strange weather records of 1938 seem to fit the picture of a slowly warming earth.

In England, March and December of last year were the warmest of the century during which records have beent kept at Greenwich.

In December, Moscow was gripped in a protracted cold spell and temperatures fell at times to 50.8 degrees below zero. Centigrade. During the same month, Soviet scientists, wintering at the observatory on Rudolf Island, 560 miles from the North Pole, reported a temperature well above the freezing point.


Examiner (Launceston) - Tuesday 25 April 1939

AMERICAN HEAT WAVE

A heat wave spread throughout the United States on Monday, bringing a five-day death total to 507.
In the mid-west the temperatures were all above 100 degrees, with a maximum of 112.


Examiner (Launceston) - Wednesday 25 July 1934

Heat Wave Kills Sheep

BUNDABERG, QLD, Wednesday:
A heat wave has caused heavy mortality among sheep which were being sent by train from the north to Brisbane.
It was impossible to truck cattle from Bundaburg yesterday and today owing to the heat.


The Argus (Melbourne) - Thursday 11 January 1934

NEW ZEALAND HEAT WAVE.

WELLINGTON, Dec. 4.— The abnormal heat continues here, particularly in South Island.
Riversdale, in the southern district, reports 94 degrees, and Gore, 90.
A horse died from sunstroke at Garston.



The West Australian (Perth) - Wednesday 5 December 1934

The Heat Wave

The heat wave - so phenomenal in APRIL - was less marked yesterday.

It is quite abnormal, and in distinct contrast to the position in the real summer months, when Cairns citizens were using blankets and top coats at night, whilst Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth were sweltering, with the temperature above the century, week after week.

It is stated that a comet is within the realm of influencing the earth's atmosphere.



Cairns Post (Qld) - Wednesday 11 April 1934

HEAT WAVE OVER SINGLETON.

The dreaded heat wave which was predicted last week, unlike the rain, did not miss Singleton, and residents yesterday and today positively sweltered.

At 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning the mercury stood at 94 degrees, and gradually climbed to 101 at 11:45.

Hopes of a change were entertained when the registration dropped to 99 degrees at 12:30, but they were only false hopes and at 2 p.m. the thermometer stood at 105 degrees, soaring to 108 at 3:30 p.m. which fortunately proved the maximum. As the minimum reading was only 72 degrees, sleepers passed a very uncomfortable night.

This morning dawned hot and sultry and humid, and resulted in another distressing day, the temperature rising to a maximum of 106 degrees at 2 p.m., but by 3:30 the gauge had dropped to 96 degrees, and a cool southerly brought the longed relief.

Tho horizon surrounding the town for the past two days has been a shimmering haze of heat, or dense smoke from bush fires.



Singleton Argus (NSW) - Friday 26 January 1934

Great old news clips snafu...thanks for keeping us all entertained!