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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

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Heat Bubble Burst With Storm 53 Points of Rain Reported Locally

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Singleton's eight days of incessant heat, with the zenith on Tuesday, when the temperature reached 103 degrees, burst yesterday with a storm, following a trying day which took the mercury to the century…

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Severe Storm At Barrington

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

GLOUCESTER: A heavy thunderstorm broke over the district on Saturday. The storm was very severe at Harrington, where…

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Storm Damage in Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sat. — Lightning struck a powerhouse at Hurstville during a storm late yesterday and disorganised railway…

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Vivid Storm Brings Rain

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 3

Ninety points of rain tell In Wollombi and Singleton in an hour during the heavy storm which swept the Maitland district…

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Week-end Forecast Cyclone Wrecks Town

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 2

A WeatHer Bureau official said that the week-end would probably be hot and sultry, with thunderstorms likely in the afternoons…

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Mitigation of Lower Hunter Floods

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 2

HEXHAM: Ketham-Ash [?] Progress Association decided to submit the following suggestions, at the request of the tower Hunter…

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Cyclone Moves Down The Coast

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed. —The cyclone moving quickly down the Queensland coast is unlikely to cause serious damage, the Weather Bureau…

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Floods Claim 70 Lives

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 4

LIMA (Peru), Feb. 15—Seventy persons were killed on Sunday when a flashflood swept over the town of Sondondo, 250 miles…

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Electricity Damage by Storms

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 6

The Maitland City Electricity Engineer-manager (Mr. E. J. Thorncroft) reported to the electric light committee of Maitland…

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Storms Benefit Dairy Pastures

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 2

The past week has brought about excellent dairying conditions which followed the good storms of late last week, says…

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Local and General News Yesterdays Heavy Rain Yielded 204 Points

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2

Heavy rain which commenced to fall early yesterday morning, but which did not set in until after 9 a.m., was responsible for…

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Territory Floods

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2

Thousands of square miles of buffalo country between Darwin and the East Alligator River, 150 air miles east of Darwin, are…

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Flood of Show Entries

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Finding accommodation for the record number of entries for this year’s Easter Show is presenting a…

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Heavy Rain in Coastal Area

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Rain which has fallen steadily over coastal areas and parts of the slopes and tablelands would…

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Tracks in Sydney Heavy From Rain Rosebery Closed To Trainers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Heavy rain interrupted gallops on most of the tracks in Sydney this motoring. At Randwick horses were not ridden right out, while at Rosebery the track was closed…

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Floodlighting Tennis Courts

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 5

Maitland City Council agreed to floodlight Maitland District Lawn Tennis Association’s courts on West Maitland Park on deferred…

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Dungog Boy Wins an Exhibition to Uni. Heavy Rain in Coastal Area

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 2

Mark, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Carlton, of Dungog, has been awarded an exhibition to the Faculty of Science at Sydney University, consequent Rain which has fallen steadily over coastal areas and parts of the slopes and tablelands would greatly benefit pastures, the Department of…

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Cyclone May Bring Flood Rains

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A cyclonic disturbance, now centred [?]0 miles east of Cape Capricornia, is gradually moving south-west to south at…

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Cyclone Moves Down Coast

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 1

NSW Forecast: A cyclonic storm was located at 9 a.m. to-day day approximately 250 miles north of Brisbane, and it is…

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Viloent Gales In Britain and Europe People Killed and Buildings Wrecked

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 2

Violent gales, which yesterday swept Britain and Europe, killed many people, and left behind wrecked buildings, disrupted communications and crippled shipping. When darkness fell last night, one ship had foundered off…

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