Severe Storm at Tarago Uncomfortable Time For Motorists
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 4
Motorists were held up for hours on flooded roads and water invaded homes of several residents as the result of a torrential downpour at Tarago early last night, when almost three inches of rain fell in less than an hour and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Is It The Calm Before The Storm On Western Front? All Ready for Eventualities Artillery Is Active Siegfried Line French Have Accurate Pictures
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 9 October 1939 · page 5
PARIS, Sunday: Military experts interpret the lull on the Western Front as the calm before the storm. They add that despite the Germans concentrating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That Big Attack Heavy Rain May Influence
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 October 1939 · page 5
NEW YORK, Thursday: The advancing season and the heavy rain of the past ten days make it almost incredible that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Lake Charlie" Mr. Howard's Complaint His Land Flooded
Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 1
"My neighbours jokingly refer to it as Lake Charlie,'" stated Mr. C. W. Howard in a letter to Thursday's meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Looking Back The Flood of 1864 Stirring Experiences in Old Days No. XXV
Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 1
DURING the months of May and June in 1864, heavy rains had been recorded in the coastal and central divisions of the State. The flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain On West Front Germans Said To Be Using Pumps
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 5
PARIS, Thursday: Heavy rain is impeding operations on the Western Front. The Rhine flooded the Siegfried Line where the German bank is 2 feet lower than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Looking Back Havoc of the Great Flood Opening of Hume Bridge No. XXVI
Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 October 1939 · page 1
THE FLOOD WATER began to ecede during the night and the next morning the destruction became painfully evident to those who had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sea of Mud Front Swept By Hail Storm
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 5
PARIS, Wednesday: French troops worked steadily throughout to-day strengthening their lines. Activity was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warm and Hot But Storms Likely
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 November 1939 · page 5
Forecast: Warm to hot and sultry conditions, culminating in rain and thunderstorms during the next 24 or 23 hours at first in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain
Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 November 1939 · page 2
The change in the weather last week culminated in a heavy downpour on Friday night, when the gutters in Cooma Street were overflow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Shock Troops Placed Along the Dutch Frontier No Room in Siegfried Forts, Is Report Holland's Flood Defences Said To Be Ready
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 5
PARIS, Tuesday: Germany has placed shock troops, tanks and armoured cars from the Polish campaign along the Dutch frontier under the command…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saturday's Big Storm Heavy Rain West Of City
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 4
Heavy claps of thunder and vivid lightning preceded the heavy rain storm which passed between Goulburn and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck by Lightning Serious Storm Breaks In Sydney
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 November 1939 · page 7
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Lightning damaged three trams and a train in the cyclonic storm yesterday. Sixty-six points of rain fell in less…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Toll by Storm Fierce Seas Around England
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 5
LONDON, Sunday: Twenty men were drowned, including Captain McLeod and the majority of apprentices, when Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nurses' Quarters Living Rooms Flooded New Roof Required
Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 2
The monthly meeting of the Board of the District Hospital, set down for Tuesday night, 14th inst., lapsed for want of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steeple Topples in Gale
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 7
Struck by a squall during a gale on Monday, the steeple was swept from St. Stephen's Presbyterian church at Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Brought Relief
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 7
Oppressive conditions prevailed in Goulburn yesterday, the weather being the hottest experienced in this city for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Barrallier Storm
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 1
BARRALLIER: A thunderstorm, which was accompanied by hail the size of pigeons' eggs, occurred here last Wednesday, damaging crops and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →34 Lives Lost in Big Storm
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 December 1939 · page 5
ISTANBUL, Tuesday: Thirty-four lives were lost when two vessels foundered in the Black Sea in a violent storm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hot and Sultry: Thunderstorms
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 December 1939 · page 4
Forecast: Warm to hot and sultry conditions culminating in scattered rain in the eastern district; thunder storms between the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →