Overnight rainfalls for Blue Mountains 6/2/2010
While Sydney is not in Northern NSW, overnight some substantial rainfall totals have occurred in the Sydney Metropolitan area and Blue Mountains with some rainfall totals reaching 100 mm. Although such totals are isolated in nature. Up until 8 am 6/2/2010, and according to the weather stations in the Bureau of Meteorology network, the heaviest falls include:-
Mc Mahons Lookout - 134 mm, Faulconbridge - 117 mm, Katoomba 106 mm (Blue Mountains City Council Area), followed by 94 mm at Bilpin and 90 mm at Kelpie Point.
A weather station in Penrith has recorded 92 mm as well as 72 mm at Oakdale. The Penrith Weather Station shows 0.4 mm of rain at 7.30 pm 5/2/2010 and 41.4 mm by 8 pm. By 5 am 6/2/2010, the station shows 92.2 mm. It is Weather Station Number 67113 for reference.
There are also solid falls on the NSW South Coast around and near Moruya including 110 mm at Moruya (The Lagoon) and 105 mm at Bettowynd (Condry).
Bathurst and Orange respectively received 50 and 51 mm and very good falls fell across the Central Tablelands, parts of the southern Tablelands south of Braidwood as well as isolated 50 to 87 mm falls south west of Tamworth toward Coonambool.
Harley Pearman
