WEEK-END WEATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18, 23 January 1933, Page 7

WEEK-END WEATHER.

Heavy Rains and Electric Storms In Australia. TELEGRAPHS DISORGANISED. (Received 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A heavy downpour, which lasted all night, flooded many of the lowlying areas of the metropolis. The rain brought relief to the North Coast, where the butter-producing districts have been anxious. Clarence Heads reported a fall of 5J inches in 24 hours. The soaking was general throughout the State, though a few areas are still untouched. The grass fires have mostly been extinguished. Severe electrical storms caused much damage over the week-end in many centres of the Riverina and northern border districts, and thunderstorms between Adelaide and Fremantle disorganised telegraphic communication. A fireball struck a house &t Young, narrowly missing a boy who had just Seen called from his bed by his mother. A landslide blocked the railway line near Stanwell Park, on the Ulawarra route. Hail did much damage to orchards. Cyclonic conditions are now reported to be covering a wide area of eastern Australia.