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)
“For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I hear
the tide turning. Last
eager wave over-
taken and pulled back
by first wave of the ebb.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)