BRITAIN'S HEAT-WAVE
ENDS IN VIOLENT STORMS Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 21. It is now possible to reveal that a heat-wave in Britain, lasting one month, ended abruptly on July 12 with violent storms over the whole country. The worst hit areas were in London, the Home Counties and Wales, where several inches of rain fell in a few minutes. Roads became impassable. Trains were held up, houses damaged and telephones put out of action. Low-lying villages were flooded. Lightning Rilled two men and one girl. A six-months-old Mester boy was drowned in a London basement. Lightning struck a North Tendon factory, felling the walls and roof. Two hundred firemen fought the fire which followed. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 7
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