of Chile and Argentina and would then advance northwards on both sides of the Andes. Records The strongest recorded Southerly Buster fell around 4:30 pm on 12 March 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand, with a maximum gust recorded of . Henry Ambrose Hunt in "An Essay on Southerly Bursters" included the Dandenong Gale in his list of bursters and wrote "the wind attained, locally, to the abnormal velocity of one hundred and fifty three miles per hour (246 km/hr) in a gust, the rate of one hundred and twelve miles for ten minutes and fifty seven miles per hour for nine hours." The sail-steamer Dandenong foundered off Jervis Bay during the gale with the loss of forty lives. - hence the name of the gale. This velocity is no longer officially recognised but the 'Kurnell Tornado' in December 2015 shows gusts in excess of are possible in the area, and the day before the tornado the possibility of a southerly buster on the following day had been proposed. Incidents On 21 November 2016, at around 6pm, a powerful southerly change occurred in Melbourne, which resulted in the death of 10 people, who were asthmatic and succumbed to respiratory failure. Thousands of others across the city experienced allergic reactions and asthma-like symptoms triggered by the storm. This was due to a stark southerly wind (60 km/hour) that distributed ryegrass pollen into the moist air, rupturing them into very fine specks, small enough particles to enter people's lungs, as they were sucked up into the warm updraft of air forming the storm cells, before they returned to earth in the storm's cool down-draft, spreading across the land in the storm's efflux area. Hospitals and medical centres in the city had to arduously manage 8,500 emergency calls in the space of just five hours, and the hospitalisation of 1400 people. See also Black nor'easter Fremantle Doctor Australian east coast low Cape Doctor Backdoor cold front References Winds Bass Strait Coastline of New South Wales Coastline of Victoria (Australia) Climate of New Zealand Climate of Australia Weather events in Australia Weather fronts Cold