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[QUOTE=gary;1215453]The bureau has reported that Sydney today surpassed 2009 by having
the second hottest November day on record at 40.9C.
out of interest and hoping not to open a can of whatever, is this one of those "hottest ever" that doesn't include earlier data due to it being seen as "inaccurate"?
EDIT appears so...
December 27, 1790: “Great heat in Sydney, 39C in the shade. Settlement visited by myriads of flying foxes, birds dropped dead from the trees.”
February 10 and 11, 1791: “On which days the temperature at Sydney stood in the shade at 41C, the heat was so excessive at Parramatta, made worse by the bushfires, that immense numbers of the large fox-bats were seen to drop from the trees into the water, and many dropped dead on the wing.”
thermometer was 41C, and on the shore it was, in some parts of the town, 38C, and in others 40C.
As has been noted on this forum before, one distinct danger is
when people throw cigarettes from cars.
people doing this in summer should have their car crushed.
Last edited by torana68; 20-11-2015 at 06:32 PM.
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