Sydney Opera House Opens

Saturday, October 20, 1973Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Australia

clear and mild69°F

Mild and cloudy at midnight, with a brief light rain before dawn and the cloud clearing as the light came. The sun rose into an open sky. By 9am it felt near 74°F again and then a hard dry wind got up and blew harder through the whole afternoon, gusts leaning on everything while the air fell away behind them, near 62° by mid-afternoon and still dropping. Bright and loud. By dusk it felt near 51° in the wind, and the evening eased slowly as the gusts died, the sky mostly clear.

Rain
0.05"
Wind
29 mph
Daylight
13.1 hrs
Day's character
drizzle
High / Low
80° / 62°F
Felt like
74° / 51°F
Snowfall
0.0"
Humidity
53%
Pressure
29.68 inHg
Gusting to
38 mph
Wind from
northwest
Sunrise / Sunset
5:08 am / 6:12 pm

Pre-satellite record — solid, not exact. From the Sydney (Observatory Hill) station, under a mile away.

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