Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Hot in Australia. [ARTICLE]

Hot in Australia.

The weather in Australia during the present antipodean summer has been unusually hot and oppressive. In Adelaide, during December, the thermometer several times registered over 100 decrees in the shade, and one day it climbed to 107 in the shade and 163 in the sun. In Melbourne the hundred notch has been reached more than once, and the scorching north winds have made the atmosphere exceedingly oppressive. The foregoing figures are from weather observatory readings, and probably do not represent by several degrees the temperature of the city streets. At the present rate of increase there will be ($3,000,000 people in Canada in fifty years’ time, and 190,000.000 in the United States. *