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24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die.
Dec 19^th, 2019 at 11:13am

It is false for the BOM and their activist friends to say the current heat wave is a record or unprecedented...

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And you thought it was hot now? How a 24-DAY heatwave on Australia's east coast in January 1896 saw temperatures climb to 49 degrees and killed 437 people

The extreme weather event was described as feeling 'like a furnace' and recorded much higher temperatures than the east coast is set to swelter through this week.

It was a hot start to 1896 and by January 14, newspapers were reporting people were dying from a range of complications brought on by the extreme temperatures.

By the third week of the year, 12 infants had died from heat-related illnesses in Goulburn, NSW, alone, a report on JoNova about the heatwave revealed.

People were fleeing the cities on trains to seek refuge in the mountainous regions of the country, and one child escaping the heat 'died at the moment the train arrived'.

Hospitals were at breaking point, and the death toll was rising.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4221366/amp/Heatwave-January-1896-hit-4...

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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95101 Melbourne Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #1 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 11:35am Australia will always be a sunburnt country.
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Pho Huc Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 985 Victoria Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #2 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 11:38am The difference between the 1896 one and the current heat wave is that the 1896 one wasn't uniformly hot. It was cooler in SA, VIC and TAS during that heatwave, not nationwide like the current one. That's why even though the 1896 wave was probably hotter in the mid east coast, nationally it was cooler.
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Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die.
Reply #3 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 12:02pm

2018. , the bureau of meteorology forecast a scorching 49C in the Pilbara WA – only 2 degrees below the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia, which is 50.7C at South Australia’s Oodnadatta airport in 1960. This reverses the global warming of 2 degrees and radiators are the gift for the season.

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Reply #4 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 1:46pm

Pho Huc wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 11:38am:

The difference between the 1896 one and the current heat wave is that the 1896 one wasn't uniformly hot. It was cooler in SA, VIC and TAS during that heatwave, not nationwide like the current one. That's why even though the 1896 wave was probably hotter in the mid east coast, nationally it was cooler.

Perhaps you have the data. BoM doesn't have it

Adelaide - "THE HEAT WAVE.
TERRIBLE WEATHER IN
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
SHADE TEMPERATURE IN
ADELAIDE 111°.
OTHER HIGH RECORDS.
THE DEATH ROLL.
STILL INCREASING."

January 1896
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53680112/4095285

Victoria - "THE HEAT WAVE.
Effects in Victoria.
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
MELBOURNE, Friday." Jan 1896

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44168314?zoomLevel-6

And Feb 1896

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79763474?zoomLevel=6

It looks like Tasmania may have been spared. Wink

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Reply #5 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 2:23pm

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 11:13am:

It is false for the BOM and their activist friends to say the current heat wave is a record or unprecedented...

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And you thought it was hot now? How a 24-DAY heatwave on Australia's east coast in January 1896 saw temperatures climb to 49 degrees and killed 437 people

The extreme weather event was described as feeling 'like a furnace' and recorded much higher temperatures than the east coast is set to swelter through this week.

It was a hot start to 1896 and by January 14, newspapers were reporting people were dying from a range of complications brought on by the extreme temperatures.

By the third week of the year, 12 infants had died from heat-related illnesses in Goulburn, NSW, alone, a report on JoNova about the heatwave revealed.

People were fleeing the cities on trains to seek refuge in the mountainous regions of the country, and one child escaping the heat 'died at the moment the train arrived'.

Hospitals were at breaking point, and the death toll was rising.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4221366/amp/Heatwave-January-1896-hit-4...

how did that inconvenient information escape the library purges and book burnings

shut it down!

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Reply #6 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:05pm

My Country - Poem by Dorothea Mackeller

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8538 armidale Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #7 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:36pm lee wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 1:46pm: Adelaide - "THE HEAT WAVE. TERRIBLE WEATHER IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. SHADE TEMPERATURE IN ADELAIDE 111°. = 43.888888889 F. hot for pommies and penguins.
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Reply #8 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:50pm

chimera wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:36pm:

=
43.888888889 F. hot for pommies and penguins.

That was before climate change.

It is now -

"Three or more days of high maximum and minimum temperatures that are unusual for that location. "

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/heatwave/about.shtml

So a heatwave in Sydney is not the same as a heatwave in Marble Bar. Wink

More info -http://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/891/how-will-i-know-if-a-heatwave-is-coming/

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8538 armidale Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #9 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:59pm umm.. umm.. have you switched sides
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16397 Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #10 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 5:04pm chimera wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:59pm: umm.. umm.. have you switched sides ??? What part of heatwave 1896 didn't you understand? or perhaps it is the new definition of heatwave that has you bamboozled.
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8538 armidale Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #11 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 5:47pm lee wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 5:04pm: What part of heatwave 1896 didn't you understand? = 43.888888889 C.
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random Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2637 Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #12 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 6:48pm chimera wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:59pm: umm.. umm.. have you switched sides
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Reply #13 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 6:51pm

lee wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:50pm:

chimera wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 3:36pm:

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43.888888889 F. hot for pommies and penguins.

That was before climate change.

It is now -

"Three or more days of high maximum and minimum temperatures that are unusual for that location. "

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/heatwave/about.shtml

So a heatwave in Sydney is not the same as a heatwave in Marble Bar. Wink

More info -http://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/891/how-will-i-know-if-a-heatwave-is-coming/

Hey, Lee old mate, are you quoting the same people you claimed have been fudging the figures?

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16397 Gender:	Re: 24 Day Heatwave in 1896 saw 437 people die. Reply #14 - Dec 19^th, 2019 at 7:41pm random wrote on Dec 19^th, 2019 at 6:51pm: Hey, Lee old mate, are you quoting the same people you claimed have been fudging the figures? You mean I should lie and pretend they haven't said that? It doesn't have anything to do with their ACORN-2 "data".
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