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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

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The Weather Heavy Rain and Hail Much Damage in Old Junee District Saturday Afternoon's Storm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 November 1937 · page 4

One of the worst rainstorms for years passed over the Old Junee and Eurongully districts on Saturday afternoon. The first intimation of heavy rains…

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Storm at Coolamon

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 November 1937 · page 4
Also in The Gundagai Independent

A heavy thunderstorm broke over Coolamon district on Saturday afternoon, as a result of which over two inches of rain fell in parts of the area…

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Cape Return Record Broken Fliers' Reception in England Severe Gale on Way Home London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 November 1937 · page 4

Flying-Officer Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green were given a wonderful welcome by a huge crowd when they landed at Croydon at 3.25 this…

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Exceptional Thunderstorm 400 Sheep Drowned at Eurongully

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 November 1937 · page 4

Accompanied by heavy thunder and vivid lighting, an exceptionally heavy storm broke over Eurongully, about seven miles from Illabo, at 3.30 on…

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Exceptional Thunderstorm 400 Sheep Drowned Eurongully

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 November 1937 · page 2

Accompanied by heavy thunder and vivid lightning, an exceptionally heavy storm broke over Eurongully 3.30. on Saturday afternoon, and in…

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Heavy Rain at Junee

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1937 · page 2

Torrential rain and hail have flattened the wheat crops and washed away fences ona 20 mile front near Junee. Three hundred sheep were…

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Heavy Storms in Java Amsterdam

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 November 1937 · page 4

Many were killed in east and middle Java, where there was enormous damage to tobacco crops…

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The Storm at "The Gully"

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 November 1937 · page 3

On Saturday over two inches of rain fell on moat Eurongully properties within half an hour. Further details are that dams were…

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Severe Stroms Hail and Heavy Rain Many Crops Slodded

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 26 November 1937 · page 2

[?] conditions on Saturday last, [?] in severe storms in various [?] between [?] and 1 p.m. In Coolamon, [?] were 75 points of…

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West Australian Storms Lightning Fires Timber Mill Perth

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 November 1937 · page 1

Severe thunderstorms in country districts caused extensive damage. A timber mill at Wilga, in the south-west, was struck by lightning, huge…

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Storms At Junee

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 12

Torrential rain and hall have flattended wheat crops and washed away fences on a 20-mile front near Junee. Three hundred sheep were swept…

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Fifty Drowned Floods in Jamaica

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 1

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Thursday.— Fifty persons were drowned in floods caused by torrential rains in the Swift River district Communications…

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Victorian Crops Beaten Down by Hail Storms Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 8

Large quantities of wheat were ruined by floods, followed by heavy thunder storms, with, hail, in the Sealake district. It is estimated that 10,000…

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Thunderstorm Sweeps Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 4

Lightning struck the home of Mr. L. Wheat in Warwick-street, Hurstville, and rocked a train at Wollstonecraft during the height of a thunderstorm…

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Balkan Storms Floods in Greece Earthquake Startles Salonika Athens

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 1

Torrential rain has caused severe floods in western Greece. Twenty villages have been inundated, and several lives lost, while stock losses are heavy…

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Terrific Storm in Manly District Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 1

A terrific storm swept over the Manly and Narrabeen districts to-day. Lightning splintered a tree in Pitt-water road, Brookvale. Large pieces of…

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The Weather Storm in Sydney Damage by Lightning Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 6

During a thunderstorm which passed over the city and suburbs to-day, several houses were unroofed at Manly and struck by lightning. At Maroubra…

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­­­[?]Nking Falls Japanese Storm the Walls and Gates Historic Walled City Penetrated Nanking

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 1

The Japanese flag flies from [?]Walls of Nanking, but blood the cobbled streets as the Chinese troops stand desperately against the…

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34 KILLED, 40 Injured Edinburgh Express in Collision Shocking Midnight Disaster in England Rescue Work Carried on in Blinding Snow Storm LONDON

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 1

Speeding at 60 miles an hour through a raging blizzard, the Edinburgh to Glasgow express crashed into a local train, which was…

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