Shooters Hill, New South Wales facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Shooters HillNew South Wales |
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 Shooters Hill
Location in New South Wales
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| Postcode(s) | 2787 |
| Elevation | 1,355 m (4,446 ft) |
| LGA(s) | Oberon Shire |
Shooters Hill is a special place in New South Wales, Australia. It's both a small area where people live (called a locality) and a mountain. You can find it about 25 kilometers south of Oberon.
This mountain is quite high! It stands at 1,355 meters above sea level. This makes it the fourth tallest point in the Central Tablelands area. Only Mount Canobolas, Mount Bindo, and Mount Trickett are higher. Shooters Hill is well-known for getting lots of snow.
You can find a tower at the very top of the mountain, at 1,355 meters high. This tower is along Tower Road. You can reach it by turning off near the main Shooters Hill area. The main locality itself is a bit lower, around 1,242 meters high. From the tower, you can enjoy amazing views of the land to the east of Shooters Hill.
A Post Office used to be open at Shooters Hill. It first opened on December 1, 1889. However, it closed down in 1978.
Weather at Shooters Hill
Even though there isn't much weather information for the very top of Shooters Hill, we do have data from a nearby area. This area is a bit lower and further south, in the Gurnang State Forest.
The weather here can be very wild all year round. It often has strong winds and changes quickly. Snow falls heavily from June to September. Sometimes, it snows less in late spring. It's very rare, but snow can even fall in summer on the top of Shooters Hill. This happened most recently in December 2013!
| Climate data for Gurnang State Forest (1933–1975); 1,148 m AMSL; 34.01° S, 149.84° E | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34.5 (94.1) |
34.4 (93.9) |
31.1 (88.0) |
25.6 (78.1) |
23.3 (73.9) |
16.7 (62.1) |
15.0 (59.0) |
18.9 (66.0) |
23.9 (75.0) |
26.7 (80.1) |
28.9 (84.0) |
33.3 (91.9) |
34.5 (94.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 22.8 (73.0) |
22.1 (71.8) |
20.2 (68.4) |
15.4 (59.7) |
11.1 (52.0) |
8.1 (46.6) |
7.4 (45.3) |
8.7 (47.7) |
12.2 (54.0) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.1 (64.6) |
21.5 (70.7) |
15.3 (59.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 9.0 (48.2) |
9.3 (48.7) |
7.3 (45.1) |
3.8 (38.8) |
1.0 (33.8) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
0.4 (32.7) |
3.2 (37.8) |
5.1 (41.2) |
7.2 (45.0) |
3.6 (38.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −0.6 (30.9) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 89.8 (3.54) |
78.9 (3.11) |
67.7 (2.67) |
70.4 (2.77) |
76.2 (3.00) |
96.5 (3.80) |
84.6 (3.33) |
89.1 (3.51) |
77.9 (3.07) |
85.2 (3.35) |
85.3 (3.36) |
75.6 (2.98) |
1,008.5 (39.70) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 9.5 | 10.9 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 13.1 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 9.0 | 127.6 |
