Severe Floods Likely on Northern Rivers
Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday: All northern rivers of the State are threatened with severe floods. The Divisional Meteorologist said that floods could be expected on inland northern rivers, but his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Torrential Rain and Gales Drought Areas now Swamps
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: Torrential rain fell to-day on parts of the Central Tablelands. Katoomba recording more than six inches in 24 hours. Hundreds of square miles of the North-west…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collier Foundered in a Gale Only One of the Crew Survives
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 1
The Ary foundered when on its way from Glamorgan to Eire, and 16 out of 17 of the crew are believed to be dead. The sole survivor in a state…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Fears Pass as Rain Eases
Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday: Little rain was reported in the State to-day, and the danger of floods in areas where heavy falls…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wild and Weird Friday's Dust Storm
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 February 1947 · page 1
The weird dust storm that passed over Leeton lasting for 24 hours on Friday, was remarkable for the fact that it came from the east instead of,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fruit Losses at Batlow District Struck by Severe Gale Fruit "Drop" 25 to 50 per cent
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 18 February 1947 · page 1
Following on the storms in Batlow early last week, an cast to south-easterly wind sprang up and continued to blow throughout Thursday and Friday, both day and night. The wind reached its peak on Thursday night and a conservative…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nsw Town Cut Off by Floods; Food by Horses
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: The township of Mogil has been cut off by floods for more than a week, and packhorses are being used to get…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Devastation Seen As Flood Recedes
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 1
BRISBANE, Tuesday. When flood waters receded in the Boin Valley area, east of Gladstone, a trail of devastation was revealed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dust Storm at Bannock and Methul Fences Buried (From a Correspondent)
Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 2
The reports in the daily Press and on the air, of the dust storm at Randwick and Method and adjacent districts, nave not been exaggerated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms at Wyalong
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 1
WEST WY ALONG. Monday: Freak storms in West Wyalong and district for 48 hours caused much damage to fences, roads, and railway lines. In…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freak Storms at Wyalong
Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 1
WEST WYALONG, Sunday: Freak storms in West Wyalong and district during the past 48 hours have caused much damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Bridges Swept Away by Floods
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday: Hood waters yesterday swept away the two main road bridges in the Coonabarabran district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Gale Causes Big Fruit Losses at Batlow
Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1
Recent storms, accompanied by heavy wind, the velocity of which was estimated at between 60 and 60 miles an hour, caused severe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Quit India" Storm in Britain
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 1
Britain's decision to quit India not later than June, 1948, has produced a storm which already exceeds any in the long series associated with India. Since Mr Attlee's bombsHell in the Commons recently, there has been a rising tide of indignation at the method…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deaths and Heavy Damage in Queensland Floods
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sunday: Floods between Bundaberg (Queensland) and the border have caused two deaths and thousands of pounds worth of damage to crops, homes, low level…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Expected to Destroy Half Bolivian City
Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 1
LA PAZ (Bolivia), Sunday: Flooding by the Mamore River is expected to destroy half of the city of Trinidad. TRINIDAD, about 220 miles northeast of La Paz. capital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canada One of the Worst Winter Storms
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 1
MONTREAL, Tuesday: One of the winters most intense storms swept Eastern Canada on Sunday and yesterday. There were at least two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District News Darlington Point Severe Storm
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 4
For the first time for months the town on Saturday afternoon last lay in the path ol a violent storm, the main force of which did not last more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Thaw Brings Fogs and Flood Danger
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 1
LONDON, Tuesday: The thaw has spread over almost the whole of Britain, except for the extreme north of England and the east of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Rain’s
Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 2
There was steady rain on Wednesday night and Thursday morning heavy in places. M[?] rain past more water in Ra[?] creeks that for pea[?] hold…
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