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 australian, heat and/or wave:
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“The LORD will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 28:22.
“I don’t know a great deal about life in Washington for women—I spent a summer there once working in the White House, and my main memories of the experience have to do with a very bad permanent wave I have always been convinced kept me from having a meaningful relationship with President Kennedy ...”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)