As I sit typing this the wind is howling outside. It just hit 55km/h from the NW, and earlier today gusted to 66km/h. In the snowy mountains things have been quite scary really. Thredbo (Crackenback) has reported winds over 120km/h. The wind has also been blamed for a car accident on the way to the snow this afternoon when a large plume of dust, whipped up by the winds, reduced visibilty along the Kosciusko road, just past the Cooma AP.
The good news is the wind should easy slowly tomorrow. We should also see some much needed showers during Saturday afternoon.
EDIT: The stong winds continued o/night, reaching 61.2km/h shortly before midnight. The strong winds helped keep the morning minimum to 9.4 degrees C, one of the warmest August nights recorded in Gungahlin. The warmest August night being 11.1 degrees, recorded in 2003.
I know it’s almost 12 months since your last post about wind but wanted to share my windy experience this week!
I came home with my children from swimming to notice our mailbox was knocked over. I told the girls with irritation “Someone has broken our mailbox!”
It was only when I got out of the car and turned around that I noticed that our 8ft trampoline was resting against a light pole halfway down our street…..must have been some big wind gust to do that as it took Miss 9 and myself at least 10 minutes to drag it back to its rightful position!
By: Mel on July 7, 2008
at 2:20 pm