EUROPEAN WEATHER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 July 1928, Page 5

EUROPEAN WEATHER

HOT AND DRY IN ENGLAND,

SOME UNUSUAL RESULTS

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LONDON, July 25

Extending to the Red Sea and across Europe to New York, and giving England the longest spell of fine weather since the rdeord summer of 1911, the heat wave shows no signs of abating after 19 days with the temperature here varying from 82 to 90 at noon to 75deg. at midnight, which is high in the 'city, where 100 has only once been recorded. Extraordinary incidents are attributed to the sudden change from months of cold. Dense coastal fogs -are hampering shipping worse than in win-ter-time. Ninety Bow Street .policemen are off duty, through digestive trouble, while according to the overworked doctors every 'kind of germ seems to have come out of cold storage.

Stranger still, England’s seaside resorts, which normally are crowded with holiday-makers at this season of the year, are complaining that the hotels are half-empty. The drought, has assumed more serious proportions on the Continent. For instance, in the Flume Valley, the Italian ecclesiastical authorities have sanctioned the .parading of the statute of the Madonna of Sorrows, which is only permitted in periods of gravest distress, at the head of a procession marching along the valley praying for rain. .