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1936

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1935

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1934

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1933

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1932

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1931

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1930

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99-DEGREE HEAT IN CITY; 12 DEAD HERE, 50 IN NATION; COOLING RAIN IS DUE TODAY; 38 PROSTRATION CASES Temperature of 137 Is Recorded in Sun in Central Park. PARKS OPENED FOR SLEEP Walker Makes an Emergency Ruling–Orders Sprinklers for Tenement Children. 18 HORSES DROP IN STREET Heat Here Within 3 Degrees of All-Time Record–Wave Ends in Some Sections. Heat of 103 in Washington. 99-DEGREE HEAT KILLS 12 IN CITY Warns on Wasting Water. Summer School Moves Outdoors. Mercury at 100 in Queens. Eighteen Horses Prostrated

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1930

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1929

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1928

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HURRICANE AND FIRES IN N.S.W.

(New South Wales experienced one of the most extraordinary and damaging gales ever known in the state on Sunday. At 2 p.m. the velocity was 63 miles an hour which is only one mile less than tho record for Australia. It was reported that over 40 houses were completely’ destroyed at Woy Woy.

Patagona, a popular seaside resort; was a mass of roaring flames. Late on Sunday night at least 100 homes had been des- troyed with^nost of their contents. There was a fierce outbreak of fire at Middle Head where several houses were burned down. A pall of black smoke covered the harbour and all picnickers were driven off the beaches which were infested with millions of insects and spiders driven out of the woods by the flames.

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1925

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1924

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1923

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1922

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WORLD GROWING WARMER.

Cesar’s account of the  Gallic Wars we find frequent mention of   frosts so intense that whole armies were able to cross broad rivers on the ice. We     know, too, that in those days Germany’s  winter was almost Arctic in its severity.

These are conditions which have long since passed away, and it is not more than twice or thrice in a century that a river like the Seine freezes up. We are also aware that no farther back than the sixteenth century the winters in England were, on an aver-   age, much more than they are nowadays. Another interesting proof is obtained from   the records of the Hudson Bay Company.

W learn from them that within the last   two centuries the average interval between the setting in of the winter frost and the coming of the spring thaw has decreased by no fewer than ten days. Again, Euro- pean glaciers are everywhere receding. The  ice fringes of both Poles are retreating. Even during the comparatively short space     of time that the Antarctic has been visited   by man the ice has retired some 40 miles. So let us cheer up. In process of time this country of ours will once more be grow- ing palms and orange trees!

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1921

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1920

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1919

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1917

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Death Valley : The summer of 1917 had 43 consecutive days with a high temperature of 120° F or above.

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1913

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Record Temperatures
The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above. Death Valley held the record for the hottest place on earth until 1922.

Oddly enough, 1913 was also the year that saw Death Valley’s coldest temperature. On January 8 the temperature dropped to 15°F (-10°C) at Furnace Creek.

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1912

West Gippsland Gazette Warragul, Vic.
Tuesday 19 March 1912

 CHANGE IN CLIMATE.

 GREEN CHRISTMASES By C. Le Lacy Evans, in the”Daily Mail.”)

 For many years back we have witnessed a noticeable climatic change in  our winters in England, Scotland, and Northern Europe generally, together with reports of a similar character from America. As an instance of the former, during the present December a rare variety of   spring sights and sounds are reported.

 BIRDS MOVING NORTHWARDS.

 Zoologically the same change is ob- served, and it is not long ago since I read a letter from a nephew of Mr George R. Sims giving a list of birds which formerly inhabited the United States only, but have recently migrated northward and are now commonly   found in Lower Canada. This shows that the northern climate is becoming   warmer, and the statement is con- firmed by the fact that the records of the Hudson Bay Company state that”the winter on the shores of the Bay has grown shorter, at the rate if of one day in every ten years.” The same change is noticeable In Siberia, Greenland, and Alaska. The northern ice cap is decreasing in area and thickness, and the land, which was tropical and bore the grape-vine the magnolia, and the water-lily before the Great Ice Age, will become habitable again.

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1911

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1910

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1909

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1908

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1906

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1903

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1902

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1900

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1898

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1897

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1896

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1895

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1894

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1893

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1892

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An Alaskan Glacier.

The Muir glacier, which is the great wonder of of Alaska, was, says a scientific writer in the Globe, doubtless discovered by Vancouver in 1791, but Professor John Muir was the first to describe it. Muir Inlet, at the head of Glacier Bay, is thetermination of this great ” river of ice.” The wall of blue ice is there a mile long and about 400 feet high. It is worn into towers, castles, and caverns, and is continually discharging fragments, from the size of a paving-stone to that of Cologne Cathedral. These falling into the sea cast up the spray for hundreds of feet into the air, and send forth waves which dash upon the shores and echo like thunder among the mountains. The Muir glacier is really a sea of ice, with numerous branches in the valleys, any one of which is as large as the Gomer or Aletzch glacier of Switzerland. It is according to Mr. S. P. Baldwin, a recent visitor, as large as all the Alpine glaciers in one, being 1,200 square miles in area. The ice is 1,000 feet thick at the mouth in Muir Inlet, and the glacier, is estimated to comprise as much water as Lake Erie. It discharges 77 billion cubic feet of ice as icebergs, and 175 billion cubic feet of water by melting every year. The centre of the glacier, where the motion is quickest, is so rough and broken into crevasses that it is con- sidered impassable. The eastern half, however, can be travelled as far as the névé. Professor

Wright has found the motion at the centre to be as much as 65 feet a day, whereas that of the Alpine glaciers is only 33 inches or so. As much as 90 feet a day has been found in the case of a Greenland glacier. The Muir glacier has once extended much further into the bay, and is now receding every year, while the sources of the ice supply are failing.

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1890

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1889

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1888

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1887

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Highest Saffir-		Central		Max.   	Name
		and Category by 	Simpson U.S.		Pressure	Winds
		States			 Category 		

1886	Jun	TX, N2; LA, 2			2		973		85	-----
1886	Jun	FL, NW2; I-GA, 1		2		973		85	-----
1886	Jun	FL, NW2; I-GA, 1		2		973		85	-----
1886	Jul	FL, NW1				1		985		70	-----
1886	Aug	TX, C4				4		925		135	"Indianola"
1886	Sep   #	TX, S1, C1			1		973		80	-----
1886	Oct	LA, 3; TX, N2			3		955		105	-----

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19th century tourists watching a devastated Alaskan glacier collapse.

Between 1794 and 1879, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated eight feet per day. This was probably due to something which Sarah Palin’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather did.

1878

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1872

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1871

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1870

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1868

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1866

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1865

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1864

SHRINKAGE IN THE WORLD’S ICE MANTLE.

Prof. T. G. Romney has some very in-   teresting things to say in “Nature” on  what he calls “the shrinkage of the world’s ice mantle.” There has been a  general retreat, he says, of the European   glaciers since 1864.

“At first rapid, it slackened after a time, but, though here and there aglacier has slightly retraced its steps and an ad-

vance became more general towards the end of the last century, the majority are still either slowly shrinking or at best stationary. In the French Alps, we learn, sundry small glaciers have quite melted     away during the last few years. It is to be hoped that these places will be carefully watched in order to ascertain more pre- cisely the conditions (temperature, pre-   cipitation, &c.) under which the formation   of a glacier becomes possible. That would   enable us to estimate the mean tempera- ture in certain localities during the glacial epoch, and thus to obtain one firmer foot-

ing in that most slippery subject. The shrinkage of the world’s ice mantle ap-pears to characterise all the countries ob- served, for only in Scandanavia, and per-     haps at Mount St. Elias, are glaciers be- ginning to advance in notable numbers.”

For a number of years the oscillation of the earths axis has been watched atspecial observatories at half a dozen places     along the parallel of 39.8 north latitude. A   report made by Th. Albrecht shows that since 1900 the greatest shifting of the pole has been about forty feet, the vibration   having been very slight in 1900, but in- creasing considerably by 1903-4, reaching a   second minimum about 1905-7, and being   now near another maximum.

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1859

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1856

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1854

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1851

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1847

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1846

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1839

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1837

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1832

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1828

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1811

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1809

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1780

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1775

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1709

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637

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