Cobar Weather – The Cobar Weekly

Cobar and all around the region cops a drenching

May 15, 2024 tcwadmin

Local landholder Megan Mosely has described the past two weeks’ rain across the district as being “proper wet” after they recorded 134mm at Etiwanda, 100km south of Cobar. Rory Harland had 174mm in his gauge 20km south of Nymagee, the Rogers at Kulwin (between Cobar and Ivanhoe) had 118mm last […]

Wettest day of the month recorded

March 24, 2021 tcwadmin

Cobar recorded its wettest day of the month this week with the Bureau of Meteorology recording 52.8mm in the rain gauge at Cobar Airport up until 9am on Tuesday morning. Our total rainfall for 2021 is now 205.4mm which, according to the Bureau, is much wetter than the long-term average […]

Another rainy Friday recorded in Cobar

February 17, 2021 tcwadmin

Rain on Fridays in Cobar has become a bit of a habit over the past few weeks with another downpour of 18mm recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology again this week. Friday’s good drop comes on top of last week’s 36.2mm and the 12.4mm recorded in town the week before. […]

A nice drop of rain for Cobar

December 23, 2020 tcwadmin

While many parts of eastern Australia were hammered by heavy falls of rain causing flash flooding this past week, Cobar has been lucky to record steady rain with more than 16mm falling over the past few days. In town, the Bureau of Meteorology recorded 0.4mm in their rain gauge on […]

Welcome downpour fills the drains

February 13, 2019 tcwadmin

A storm which dumped nearly an inch of rain on Cobar’s CBD in around an hour has helped provide some temporary relief from the ongoing drought. While the Cobar Meteorological Office on Louth Road officially measured 13mm of rain from Thursday’s storm, there was 20mm recorded by the Cobar Airport […]

Newey nearly dry after months without significant rainfall

February 14, 2018 tcwadmin

The Newey and Old Res water storage areas are almost dry after months of hot weather and a lack of significant rainfall in Cobar. Cobar has recorded 139mm of rain since September last year, which is 36.4mm below the long term average. After a dry winter, September had 4mm of […]

Record summer heat

March 8, 2017 tcwadmin

Cobar has officially broken three temperature records over summer while NSW experienced its warmest summer on record. Nigel Smedley, technical officer from Wagga Wagga Weather Bureau of Meteorology said Cobar Airport weather station recorded a maximum temperature of 47.3 degrees on February 11. The previous record was set on January […]