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- aired on channel 10's eyewitness news Melbourne. 8th February 1983. end of the dust storm report and all or most of the Melbourne heatwave report (new record of 43 degrees) from channel 10 eyewitness news. the tragic Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia followed not long after.
I was 10 and my family had recently immigrated from Holland to Melbourne. We'd been here 18 months and all I wanted after that day was to go back home to the Netherlands. My grandparents were visiting that summer, we'd had the fires, the crazy heat and after the dust storm they swore they would never ever come back to Australia again, and they never ever did.
I remember this day very well. The dust was like a giant wave sweeping over the city. Oddly, it seemed to come in from the south. The big bush fires followed a few days later. Ash Wednesday.
I’ve seen your comments on a couple 1980s Melbourne related videos. I envy the 80s but I’m also thankful of being brought up in the 2000s.
I remember this. It had not only dust storm and high temperature but it was also smoky and snowing ash as well. I thought the end of the world had arrived. 1983 was the hottest dry year I have faced in my teens.
@Dust storm C0Ming
That's why we need to cover the land by leaving or growing back the forests. They keep the ground cool, moist (misty) and with less the chance of bushfires. Cool ground means a lot for the environment, that's if you have ever been inside a thick, cool forest to appreciate the difference compared to a shaved land where the hot, scorching Sun bakes the ground and increase higher temperatures, known as global warming. Don't destroy the forests, plant trees instead if you want trees for commercial reasons.
I was working at spencer st station that day. It was hot and when the dust arrived it was dark and eerie.
Fun fact!
1:02 the kid on the red boat is my uncle and the one pulling it is my dad!
Foundry workers in Fitzroy? Bwahahahaa! Yes, kids - we used to actually make shit here in Australia.
I was 13 and and remember just finishing another day of high school, i can recall day turning to darkness and red dust everywhere, oh and a stinking hot day to top it off!
Wow Fitzroy foundry workers....now that's history!
now its greenie soy latte makers
I was driving home from Mildura that day after holidays had finished. I remember driving down the highway through the red dust storm. 1/4 inch of dust caked onto the roof bonnet and windscreen. It got really bad through Calder hwy and could barely see beyond the bonnet of the old valiant.
I remember that terrible day vividly. So bloody hot and with the frequent dust storms and fires it became so eerie. Really scary times and now we reach temperatures of up to 49 deg. in some parts of the country. How worse is it going to get?
Melbourne looks like Beijing on a clear day!
Beijing does not have clear days
@@vinorob
I think the OP meant a clear day by Beijing's standards. 🙄
gonadsftw thanx for this, I was looking at a film of the Broken Hill dustorm in 2007 earlier this evening.
Hot temperatures in 1983? How is this possible? Have heatwaves happened before the 21st century?
That evidence suggests that heatwaves did occur prior to the 21st century. Mind you the 1980s was toward the late 20th century.
I remember this day as well I was 8 at the time in grade 2 I remember looking out the window during class and seeing the all the dust.
You were still at school at the time?
Thankfully, my Primary school allowed us kids to go home by early afternoon, around 1 or 2pm.
I was also 8 and in Grade 2.
I ended up being down at Northcote swimming pool with one of my brothers when the dust storm blew over, trying to bob under water and stay under for as long as possible until I could breathe properly again.
It was insane and have never experienced anything like it since.
Wow” 37 years ago today, 08/02/2020, I remember this, it was a whooper!
Time flys.
as soon you hit 25 it does.
Oh how quickly we forget the heatwave of yore...
We don't forget.
But we also don't pretend that they're not happening more often and with more intensity, all over the world.
Places that have never been so hot, are just getting hotter as each year passes.
Rubbish. You have no data to support your alarmist nonsense.
Happy days...cars with vinyl seats and no air conditioning...that’s enough to make a millennial melt.
I was just thinking that looking at the old commodore and falcons ECT in this video
@@100reality2
My dad's old XT Falcon (68-69 model) only had vinyl on the edge of the seats, the majority of the seat was a fabric upholstery.
It was things like seat belt buckles, door handles and the steering wheel that had issues in those cars, before steering wheel covers came along.
Those buckles could very easily brand someone for life, if they happen to land directly your skin after the car had been sitting in the scorching hot sun all day long. And I'm talking about in the days before retractable seat belts, so it was pretty easy to have a buckle touch your arm or leg or any other exposed part of your body. Much worse if you were already sunburnt, too. 😜
I WAS BORN AND THEN THIS HIT MELB =P
well we broke that record SMASHED it if u ask me
I was in Mentone when it hit.
classic - thanks!
1:04
Even during a hugely impactful news story of that days event in Melbourne, they still had to take the opportunity to throw in a bit about some swimwear fashion parade. 🤦♀
record broken on Feb 7, 2009
I don't ever want a day like that again.
You mean 2006? That was the worst heatwave on record, day after day, it burned the beautiful Grampians to ashes.
@@mickcarson8504 No 2009, Black Saturday
@@CaptainAwesome-mz6mt
It was 2006. 2009 was the year where the 11 years draught spell ended with cool changes and rain. And so was in 2010.even now in mid November 2019 it's still cold and wet here in Melbourne, with 3 days sunny and 4 days cold and rainy. I don't remember anything like this in my 40 years of weather observation. The grass is still very green, growing out of control and roses have gone banana with plenty of flowers and colours at this time of the year. But, in November? Nah! Tell me of a November like this that occurred in the past.
@@mickcarson8504
The hottest day ever recorded in MELBOURNE was the 7th of February, 2009. (46.4 degrees C - 115.5 F)
i just left school with my mates when it hit, it was fantastic.......good times
This is the Jason Aldean hail storm he sings about.
very interesting
gee she's young there 20
@Boobdepot1977
Yeah, I'm sure you'd love to be stuck in a W class on a 40+ degree day.
Especially not those old ones, that never had any kind of air conditioning.
Jo Pearson
Hmm....1983?! I was like 5 years old at that time, I don't remember the dust storm but I do remember visiting cousins in Lilydale at that time?! Was this hot day on a weekend?! Because we only ever visited on weekends at that time or otherwise I was in kinder which I remember that I wasn't?! 43 degrees is that much of a big deal in the 21st century these times...How I miss the 1980's melbourne....
why have you made this all about you ?
It happened on a Tuesday.
And how can you remember that you weren't at Kinder on that day, when you say you don't even remember the actual dust storm event?
Plus, you have to remember that in those days, kids didn't always go to Kinder every day of the week.
And they certainly never went for most of the day. Usually just for a few hours, 2 or 3 days a week.
Kids were usually picked up from Kinder well before 3-4pm (around the time the dust storm hit Melbourne), so that parents could still get to their primary school kids in time of being let out, if they had other young children they needed to pick up as well.
Oh brother I give my own input onto the events that may off led onto that fateful day/time and I get targeted and lamblasted for it?! I was merely like even else giving my own accounts to myself on what happened and that was a prior leading up to that time etc. I must be really SO special to both your comments and input that now I get to live rent free in your heads etc. I can't believe that I'm SO special but I can also appreciate the newest comment here as well for the spot on correction and authentication that I could never ever do myself. Let's hope you never have kids either yodeling underwater to the Barbara Streisand effect either yawn.
@@TheAxelay
Wow!
The most mature response it could come up with, is a long-winded rant about victimisation, then turning it around to hurl non-sensical personal insults in return.
As if someone like that is ever going to live rent free in my head for even a second. 🤣
Farewell.
@mebeme007 , I don't know here and besides I had too much drink here so I probably misinterpreted what you said previously etc. Forget it and cheers sigh. 🤨😏
Gee global warming in 1983! Where were the warmist zealots.
I don't think we learned about climate change until about 1988
@@JamesJimmaHarding
A few were talking about it back in the 1970's.
But most people were barely taking much notice back then.
Fast forward 50 years, and there are still many who don't wanna listen and act like they know more than the majority of scientists, farmers, coastal dwellers, etc.
Simply because they watch propaganda and conspiracy YT videos. 🙃 Then go around labelling others as zealots, ironically.
Newsreaders are David Johnson but I can't remember her name ?
+SkinnyCow Jo Pearson
Yeah, Jo Pearson married Rob Gel and they had gelly babies..
@@arthurdent6828 bum gel.
@@arthurdent6828
🤣🤣🤣 I like that one.
What pure for news to centre shock dust storm in Melbourne. Checking victoria, australia in spetacular what is wrong ATV TEN TVQ NEW ADS
+Rex Allen Christopher Perez Sorry, your post doesn't make any sense
What school did you go, Rex, kindergarten?
Every storm is the worst ever.
ooooooooooooooo not climate change????
Well, it was actually a taste of what was to start happening more often and more intensely, all over the world.
But let's pretend it's apparently not happening.
Let's pretend that we know more than most scientists, ecologists, farmers, coastal dwellers and the rest.