Dr Mosley’s Heat Stroke Lesson Popular television medical presenter Dr Michael Mosley (67) on 5th June 2024 tragically succumbed to heat stroke whilst on holiday hiking solo over a rocky Greek Island ‘Symi‘. We presume that he was an inexperienced hiker. The subject island geographically identified below appears rather closer to Turkey than to Greece, but whatever. The timing was […]
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Below is the magical Megalong Road that takes one down into the ‘Megalong’…meaning “valley below the rock“. When you arrive at the valley’s floor, you can then look back up to the escarpment and appreciate this naming by its ancient Aboriginal custodians. For this particular reconnoitre trip to what we call ‘Megalong Glen‘ back on Friday 14th January 2022, […]
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Yesterday the New South Wales Parks Service decided to blanketly close the entire Blue Mountains National Park of some 2690 km2 indefinitely. The huge area extends pretty much from Bilpin to Kanangra and from Warragamba Dam to Mount Victoria. The reason for the blacket closure is simply the likelihood of well, rain. What? Rain in the Blue Mountains? Who would […]
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As if government lockdowns from NSW Government’s abject failure in bushfire management and then Australian Government’s abject failure in quarantine to prevent a foreign virus pandemic are not enough? During a regular La Niña east coast low thunderstorm since February 2020, forked lightning struck Little Hartley at late on Friday night 7th January 2022. The lighting unfortunately targeted a tree […]
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We’ve got the first snow flurry in Katoomba for 2019. Global cooling has hit the Blue Mountains. In fact the temperature when the snow flurry commenced an hour ago dropped to 0.4 Celsius. Last week we had a balmy mid twenties. It’s due to a series of cold fronts crossing over the south-eastern part of Australia. In fact the Bureau […]
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An intense thunderstorm on Wednesday 23rd January 2019 from 2:30pm dumped golf ball sized hail on Katoomba in the Upper Blue Mountains. After local calls to the Bureau of Meteorology, ten minutes later during the cColorbond racket, the BOM decided to issue a severe weather warning at 2.40pm for severe thunderstorms including large hail, heavy rain and damaging winds around […]
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