Maleny District Sport & Recreation Club Community Newsletter
Monday, 9 May 2022
Maleny District Sport & Recreation Club Community Newsletter “New Weather Station at Gerrard Lookout” Thanks to the efforts of the Sunshine Coast Sports Aviators Club, a new, free-access weather station has been built on Gerrards Lookout, Balmoral Ridge. Spectacular views of the magni cent Sunshine Coast are well known from this location - and it's perfect for a weather station. After being knocked back by grants funding, the SCSAC decided to fund and maintain it themselves. As the only weather station on the hinterland, the new station will provide an important tool with lots of different applications. Constructed with live reading accessibility from the website, it is now providing the most up-to-date meteorological information – crucial to service light aircraft, para-gliding and hang-gliding needs. It has many other applications, being bene cial for so many who depend on weather information as part of their everyday lives. Farmers, astronomers, the media and weather enthusiasts will welcome the news. There are those who will use the device recreationally – by syncing the weather station data via a computer or smartphone, the data is available anywhere that has access to the internet, which is all good for the general public and the many hikers that the hinterland is popular with.
don’t end up being true for the area. This localised weather station will provide much more accurate readings, allowing the many sporting and recreational events organisers to more accurately provide information to travelling teams from outside the area. SCSAC’s spokesperson, Dom Colvile said “We invite Sunshine Coast Hinterland residents to have free use of this valuable, live-weather information, with rain gauge, wind strength, direction, and temperature facilities. We would like to thank Peter and Sue Buch for allowing us to paraglide from and install the weather station at their beautiful property. Feel free to come and watch us Paragliding there any time and say G” day!” You can access the weather station online at: https://holfuy.com/en/weather/1622. Want to know more about SCSAC? activities at:
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As a popular event destination, community groups in Maleny that hold various outdoor events, have to make assumptions and possibly cancel events because of general weather warnings that
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