Watkin Tench of the Royal Marines detailed a heatwave powered by north-westerly winds that howled for three days… “an immense flight of bats, driven before the wind … dropped dead or in a dying state, unable longer to endure the burning state of the atmosphere”… temperature was 101 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38.3 Celsius. Read more here.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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Tim Curtin says
July 28, 2009 at 6:08 pmDavid Karoly seems to have had a damascene conversion, else how could it have been that hot in Sydney in 1790 without much CO2 aloft? Well done anyway, great story.
janama says
July 29, 2009 at 6:45 pmKaroly has a special interest in heat – he’s on Fletcher Insulation’s payroll 😉