Cobar drenched by weekend storms
Wednesday February 10, 2010
Widespread heavy rainfall has caused damage to a number of roads in the Cobar shire, including Shire Road 21 (Tallebung Road) at Marobee Station, pictured above on Sunday. ? Photo contributed
Almost all of Cobar’s average February rainfall was dumped on the district in just one day on the weekend as storms brought heavy, widespread falls.
Cobar Meteorological Office recorded 44mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9am Sunday, adding to 22mm from the day before
and a further 9.6mm recorded earlier in the week.
The storms caused localised flooding in a number of areas, and all unsealed roads
in the shire remained closed yesterday morning.
The Kidman Way, south of Cobar, was closed to all traffic over the weekend after extensive flooding in a number of spots, with the worst in the Priory Tank area and near Sandy Creek.
Last week’s 76mm of rainfall took the total for February alone to 127.6mm, well above the average February rainfall of 42.8mm.
The rain was widespread, with Brewarrina recording 26mm, Engonnia with 77mm, Louth recorded 45mm, Tibooburra measured 80mm while Wilcannia had 98mm.
Gambolalley Station, north west of Cobar on the Louth Road, recorded 64mm for the week while in the far west of shire Berangabah Station had 67mm of rain.
In the south of the shire Marobee Station reported almost 150mm of rainfall over the weekend.
The rainfall over the weekend kept local temperatures down, with Saturday ranging from a minimum of 21.3 degrees to a top of 23.6 degrees.
The warmest day of the week was Thursday with a top of 35.7 degrees.
The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a fine and mostly sunny week this week, with the temperature to reach 30 degrees today with fine but partly cloudy conditions.
Tomorrow is expected to be fine with a minimum of 19 degrees up to a top of 30 degrees.
A fine day is also forecast for Friday with a top of 32 degrees.
A warm weekend is on the way with 33 degrees forecast for Saturday and 35 degrees on Sunday.
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