Winter's Worst Storm Raging Over Atlantic
NEW YORK, January 14. A.A.P.—The severest storm of the winter is raging over the entire North Atlantic. Even the biggest ships are…
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Floods & storms, 1947
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 19
Ships in Trouble in North Atlantic Gales
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—The mountainous seas, which have dislocated North Atlantic shipping schedules, have…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 16. A.A.P.—Rescue craft, speeding through raging Atlantic storms to aid the crippled freighter, Tecumseh Park,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The departure of the Duke of Gloucester for England was postponed to-night because of a heavy storm. If the weather is favourable the Duke will leave at 8 a.m…
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Stockton was completely blacked out for about 30 minutes last night when the combination of a severe electrical storm and unusually heavy loading caused interruptions on the…
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CAPE TOWN, Jan. 16. A.A.P.—Six people have been drowned, many ears marooned, and trees swept away in Pietermaritzburg (Natal) in the…
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KALGOORLIE—Children played in the nude in the streets at Menzies during a heavy downpour yesterday…
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WINGHAM , Sunday.—The most severe hailstorm in the memory of local residents was experienced at Comboyne, 26 miles from Wingham,…
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Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle, the Coalfields and the Upper Hunter to-day is: Fine and warmer, north-easterly winds…
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The Queensland cyclone, working South and already lashing the North Coast of N.S.W., is expected by local meteorologists to reach Newcastle. Barometric pressures were falling, in Newcastle this morning and con-…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A "lake" two miles long and more than a mile wide covers the trans Continental railway line to an average…
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LONDON: Increasing sunspot activity may cause freak gales and storms all over the world during the year. And…
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Newcastle is almost certain to escape the cyclone which lashed the Far North Coast for nearly 24 hours after sweeping through Brisbane. Weather Bureau officials said this morning that the cyclone had moved about 100 miles inland…
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Brisbane sea and air ports were closed yesterday when bad weather was stirred up by the outskirts of the cyclone. The whole of the coast from Gladstone, Central Queensland,…
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The cyclone which lashed the Northern New South Wales and Queensland coasts was petering out 100 to 150 miles west of Brisbane, the Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) said in Sydney…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—One man was drowned yesterday and many people were endangered in the most disastrous flood in south-east Queensland since 1893. Many others were injured while they were being rescued…
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SYDNEY: Tweed Heads, on the N.S.W. border, has been turned into a refugee town, harboring more than 1000 tourists who have been stopped by floods while on their way to Brisbane…
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LONDON, Jan. 27. A.A.P.—All Middle East and most long-range Empire air services have been delayed indefinitely by snow and gales in…
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PASSENGERS from Brisbane by the Saturday express were about 22 hours late, owing to line damage by the floods in Southern Queensland…
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BATHURST, Monday.—The car in which the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) was driving, nearly overturned in floodwaters when it was…
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