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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1920

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Both Weirs Full. Heavy Storm at Komungla

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1920 · page 2

Goulburn's quota out of Wednesday's rain was eight points. Taralga received 62 points, Crookwell 11, and Gunning 22…

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Seine in Flood. Great Damage Expected. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1920 · page 4

The Times Paris correspondent states that the River Seine continues to rise alarmingly. The majority of the city ports are submerged…

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Flooded Seine. Still Rising. (Published in "The Times.) LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 2

The Seine has flooded several streets in Paris, and is still rising…

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Scattered Storms Creeks Flooded, Railway Washaways, Stock Perish. Hail Six Feet Peep

Young Witness · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 2

Varying in intensity, but torrential in isolated part, scattered storms deluged the south west on Saturday For the most part none of the…

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Saturday's Storm. Damage and Benefit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 2

Details continue to come in of damage in the district as the result of Saturday's storm. Many roads in the Mulwaree Shire had the ballast washed off and…

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Shocking Fatality. Car Plunges into Chasm. Sad Result of Saturday's Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred in Goulburn on Saturday, ending in the death under tragic circumstances, of Mrs. Irene Dinah Stewart, wife of Mr. Charles…

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Terrific Storm. Saturday Night's Visitation. Much Damage to Property. Considerable Stock Losses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

One of the heaviest storms on record, at any rate for a number of years, visited Goulburn on Saturday night about seven o'clock…

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Floods in Holland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 2

A report from Amsterdam states that the rising of the Rhine is threatening Amerongen Castle, the residence of the ex-Kaiser. The latter is busily engaged…

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More Storms. Three Horses Killed. Struck by Lightning

Young Witness · Friday 9 January 1920 · page 2

Another secere storm passed over Kingsvale, Wombat, and Back Creek districts last evening, again flooding the creeks and gullies. The…

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Plunge to Death. Floods Cause Tragedy, Woman Killed in Motor Car. Goulburn

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 January 1920 · page 3

The big cloudburst of Saturday night, and the torrential flood which followed, were the indirect cause of the death of…

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Saturday's Storm. Disastrous Effects at Yarra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1920 · page 4

A resident of Yarra writes.—What appears to have been one of the worst storms in the history of Yarra occurred on Saturday afternoon about 6 o'clock…

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Heaviest Storm for 25 Years

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 4

Last night's storm was the most violent for many years. Mr. Mares Divisional Officer of the Weather Bureau, states that the outstanding features of the…

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Gale in Britain. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 4

A wild gale swept Britain during the week-end. It was the severest for several years…

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Heavy Storm. Much Damage. Tarlo and Towrang

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 4

A heavy storm visited, the Goulburn district on Tuesday evening at about 7 o'clock. In the city a couple of very light showers fell but localities in the…

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Heavy Storm Near Gouldurn

Young Witness · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 6

A heavy storm visited the Goulburn district on Tuesday evening at about 7 o'clock, in the city a couple of very light showers fell, but loca[?] in the immediate vicinity of…

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Heavy Storms and Heat. Races Abandoned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 2

Friday was another hot day in Goulburn, through the official thermometer never rose is high as on the previous day. Friday's maximum…

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Thunderstorms

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 2

Thunder showers have fallen at scattered places in the north-east of N.S.W. and on the central and southern coast and table lands…

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The Queensland Cyclone

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Sub-Inspector Ryan at Cairns to the effect that the extent of the damage was set down…

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Tremendous Dust Storm. Goulburn Wiped Out. Twenty-two Points of Rain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 5

A phenomenal dust-storm wiped Goulburn off the map on Thursday afternoon, at any rate, for a few minutes. The visitation came from the west, and…

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Heavy Thunderstorm. Four Inches at Colllngwood. Washaway on the Railway. A Man Struck by Lightning

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

After several days of intense heat a change in the weather took place on Thursday afternoon at Murrumhurrah About half-past 3 o'clock a…

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