WEATHER IN ENGLAND.
HIGH TEMPERATURES RECORDED RUGBY, August 7. England is again experiencing a period of very warm fine weather, and considerably higher 'temperatures are predicted for the next few days. In London at 4 p.m. to-day the temperature was 84 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with 79.5 degrees yesterday. In some parts of the country yesterday ■the thermometer recorded 86 degrees. A number of serious forest and heath fires has occurred. Brought conditions prevail over a considerable area, but a reassuring statement regarding the water supplies of London -has been made by the chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board. It is stated that there are between four and five thousand million gallons more in the reserve reservoir than at the corresponding time last year. Several deaths are reported as being due to the heat.—(British Official Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Age, 9 August 1935, Page 2
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135WEATHER IN ENGLAND. Wairarapa Age, 9 August 1935, Page 2
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