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Blackheath (postcode: 2785) is a town [2] located near the highest point of the Blue Mountains, between Katoomba and Mount Victoria in New South Wales, Australia.The town's altitude is about 1,065 m (3,494 ft) AHD and it is located about 120 km (75 mi) west north-west of Sydney, 11 km (6.8 mi) north-west of Katoomba, and about 30 km (19 mi) south-east of Lithgow.
The region of Sydney, and as well as the rest of the New South Wales coastline, is warmed by the East Australian Current. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In 2020, researchers at The Australia Institute discovered that Sydney was experiencing longer summers and shorter winters in recent decades, compared to those in the 1950s and 1960s.
Snow in Australia is very rare at sea level, but is common on the highlands of the southeast, in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and in the Australian Capital Territory. Snow is rare even in the southernmost capitals like Melbourne and Hobart , falling less than once every decade, and in the other capitals it is unknown.
The 2024–25 Australian bushfire season [a] is the current summer season of bushfires in Australia. At the beginning of the season temperatures had been above average to high above average for most regions, with parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland experiencing highest on record maximum temperatures for the winter period ...
A southerly buster is the colloquial name [1] of an abrupt southerly wind change in the southern regions of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, which approaches from the southeast, mainly on a hot day, bringing in cool, usually severe weather and a dramatic temperature drop, thus ultimately replacing and relieving the prior hot conditions.
Föhn cloud over the Crackenback Range, near Jindabyne. The southeast Australian foehn is a westerly foehn wind and a rain shadow effect that usually occurs on the coastal plain of southern New South Wales, and as well as in southeastern Victoria and eastern Tasmania, on the leeward side of the Great Dividing Range.
Mount Bindo, a mountain on the Great Dividing Range, is located in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.. With an elevation of 1,364 metres (4,475 ft) above sea level, [1] [2] Mount Bindo is one of the highest points on the Central Tablelands and attracts regular light snowfalls in winter.
Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia; Black Heath, Virginia, USA, a late 18th and 19th century plantation and coal mine; Blackheath, an industrial quarter of Cape Town, South Africa; Blackheath, Gauteng, in Johannesburg, South Africa