Wednesday March 6, 2024
Volume 39 No. 07
$2 inc. GST
The Cobar Weekly NSW Farmers warning on EID Pg 2
Driver injured in truck roll over Pg 3
Rural crime inquiry labelled a ‘TALKFEST’ Pg 7
Summer went out with a bang
Summer definitely went out with a big Essential Energy crews were able to isolate The next five days will be mostly sunny and, bang in Cobar last Thursday with some and repair the damage and power was restored following the autumn trend, will be warmer very wild weather recorded by the Bureau to all impacted customers by 10.20am the fol- than average. of Meteorology. lowing day. Today should reach a top of 36 degrees with After the mercury topped out at a sweltering The Bureau is predicting the warm weather 36 also predicted for tomorrow, Friday, Satur41.8 degrees on our last day of summer (which will continue with above average temperatures day and again on Sunday. the Bureau reports is one of our warmest on expected this autumn. The forecast for Monday is slightly higher record), it was later followed by heavy rain and This week we should see mostly settled with a top of 37 degrees expected, which is wild winds. weather, apart from the chance of a late thun- well above the mean average for this time of The Bureau recorded 16.4mm of rain in their derstorm tomorrow afternoon. the year of 30.2 degrees. weather station gauge while 17.2mm fell in their gauge at Cobar Airport on Thursday. The winds got to 91km per hour at 3pm in town while the airport recorded their top wind speed of 70km, a bit later at 4.43pm. The wild weather caused some damage with the local State Emergency Services (SES) unit called out to help residents in Murray Street, Becker Street and Bourke Street. SES volunteer David Snelson reports while there wasn’t any major or life-threatening damage, fallen trees had however caused damage to the guttering to one home, broke the window of a vehicle and also fell on a clothesline. He said some parts of the town seemed to “cop it” more than others. He noticed in particular there were lots of broken tree limbs and water lying around on the Lerida Road. Essential Energy crews were also busy after last week’s storm repairing a service line in Bathurst Street and removing tree branches from powerlines. The storms were widespread across the region and a power outage in Nyngan at 5.45pm affected 225 customers in Cobar and Nyngan. Essential Energy reports the storms damaged four poles on the 132,000-volt radial line be- The calm after the storm on Thursday: local amateur photographer Jayde George tween Nyngan and Cobar. captured this cute pic of Archie Myer-Ryan playing in the puddles in the driveway.