Sinclair’s property, Berangabah, south of
Cobar. Photo taken on Friday.
Many areas of NSW have copped another
deluge of rain over the past week and a
good amount of it also fell in many parts
around the Cobar Shire.
It wasn’t however consistent, especially in
the north of the shire, with 115mm recorded
at Tindarey while 39mm was received in the
gauges at nearby Carline Station.
Over at Poon Boon the Boals recorded
56mm in their gauge and next door at Cains
(Booroondarra), they recorded 50mm.
Out west Mudgee Maiden received 101mm
at Buckanbe and Bob Sinclair at Berangabah
in the south west recorded 88mm.
In the east of the shire, Tara Toomey reported
receiving 28mm of rain in one gauge and
49mm in another gauge (3km away) on the
property at Mildyn Park.
The Kidman Way Highway north of Cobar
was closed in both directions on Friday afternoon
due to heavy rain.
The highway was eventually reopened
around 1.30pm on Saturday to all traffic.
According to Cobar Shire Council’s road
condition report all unsealed roads were
closed to all traffic and sealed roads were only
open with cautions due to localised flooding
on Friday.
In town, we had 5.6mm to 9am Thursday,
then 15mm on Friday and a further 1.2mm to
9am Saturday which brings Cobar’s total for
the month to 111.4mm (according to the Bureau
of Meteorology).
According to local weather observer and
historian John Collins, the previous wettest
November in Cobar was in 1911 with
157.8mm, closely followed by 157.1mm in
2000.
Thunderstorms were predicted for yesterday
afternoon but the week ahead is expected to
be mostly dry and sunny with 30 degrees the
expected top for today while the mercury is
predicted to hit 34 tomorrow and 35 on Friday.
The warm weather will continue into the
weekend with 30 the expected maximum temperature
on Saturday while Sunday should be
a little cooler with 29 and 26 is the forecast
top for Monday.
