UNSETTLED WEATHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 168, 18 July 1945, Page 5

UNSETTLED WEATHER

ENGLAND’S THUNDERSTORM (Special Correspondent—N.Z. P.A.) Recd. 6 p.m. London, July 16 The weather has been as unsettled as lhe people recently. After alternating between heat and cold, Yorkshire and southern England had the worst thunderstorm for 22 years on July 14. At the peak of the storm at least 40 flashes of lightning to the minute were recorded, accompanied by torontial rain. The temperature foil from 85 degrees to 65, and the following day was the hottest of the yea”. The storm caused considerable damage in many parts of Ihe country. On the same day hundreds of thousands of people began their annual holidays, and London’s main line stations put on 60 extra trains to cope with Iho crowds. I This week-end the country “los"’ an extra hour of daylight, when the : clocks, which were two hours in advance, were put back one hour. The result is that instead of having daylight until 11 p.m., it is now dark at 10 p.m. A compensation was the realisation that the black-nut 4s indeed ended and for the first lime in six years the streets are gay with lights throughout th? country. Tn Loud n the occasion was celebrated by crowds linking arms and marching down Whitehall to the Embankment, v.bil • in Piccadilh' Ibero was a scon? like a 1 boat-race night.