Two catastrophic heat waves struck Australia in 2009:
- Early 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave on 25 January – 9 February 2009
- Late 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave on Late October – mid November 2009
Famous quotes containing the words heat wave, australian, heat and/or wave:
“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)