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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1896

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Queensland Gales

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 February 1896 · page 3

The extraordinary heat waves, of which so many parts of this country have experienced the full force, are, unfortunately, not the only visitations by which the present…

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Terrific Dust-Storm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 April 1896 · page 5

Bad as have been the dust storms which have visited Broken-hill, that of Saturday boats the record. It reached its height shortly after 4 p.m., when the -lense clouds…

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Orchardists and Tuesday's Storm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 2

A correspondent at Seven-hills states that the heaviest hailstorm yet experienced in the district was that which occurred on Tuesday afternoon. The storm had a…

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