The Brickfielder is a hot and dry wind in Southern Australia that develops in the country's deserts in late spring and summer, which heavily raises temperatures in the southeast coast.
7-411: The term name was recorded in early 19th century, which emanated from the name of Brickfield Hill , a site which was a former brickworks in the centre of Sydney CBD . The area was associated with dusty wind that conveyed clouds of reddish dust from the brickworks over the emerging city. A more frequently used term for the winds is a "burster". The Brickfielder precedes the passage of a frontal zone of
14-475: A low pressure system passing by, and causes severe dust storms that often last for days and led to its naming as the winds blow up red brick dust. It blows to the coastal regions in the south from the outback , reaching the capitals of Adelaide and Melbourne to south, and Sydney to the east. The dry northwesterly desert air from the interior of Australia transports dusty clouds alongside sudden hot spells that usually surpass 38C (100F) to places that feature
21-471: A relatively mild climate. The temperature might rise up by 15 to 20°C within hours. The northern Brickfielder is almost invariably followed by a strong " southerly buster ," cloudy and cool from the ocean. The two winds are due to the same cause, viz. a cyclonic system over the Australian Bight . These systems frequently extend inland as a narrow V-shaped depression (the apex northward), bringing
28-483: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brickfield Hill Brickfield Hill is a City of Sydney locality in the Sydney central business district , Australia. The name was used for the surrounding settlement serving the colony's growing need for bricks, and today is part of the suburb of Surry Hills . The first land grant of Brickfield Hill (George Street, between Liverpool and Goulburn Streets)
35-475: The term, up until the 1840s when land values rose and merchant stores, warehouses, and housing became more prominent, although the area remained a relatively poor 'slum' area of the city. In 1905, following the destruction of their Haymarket store by fire in 1901, Anthony Hordern & Sons opened their new Palace Emporium on Brickfield Hill, the construction of which involved the demolition of several houses including Samuel Hordern 's birthplace. Following
42-569: The winds from the north on their eastern sides and from the south on their western. Hence as the narrow system passes eastward the wind suddenly changes from north to south, and the thermometer has been known to fall 15 °F (−9 °C) in twenty minutes. On the coastal plains of New South Wales, such as in Western Sydney , the Brickfielder may be exacerbated by the southeast Australian foehn . This wind –related article
49-482: Was granted to Samuel Hockley in 1810 by Governor Macquarie , where Hockley set up a butchery. Hockley lived at Brickfield Hill until his death in 1859, where he was noted as one of the oldest colonists in Sydney. Brickfield Hill was a Sydney postal address until postcodes were introduced in 1967, and roughly covered the area between Sydney Town Hall and Central station . The area was used for brick-making, hence
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