by Chris Webber | Oct 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was expecting to find that wind strengths in the Blue Mountains have been increasing over time, due to the increasing intensity of storms. Wind storms cause extensive damage to structures, cut power, block roads and even occasionally kill people in the Blue...
by Chris Webber | Oct 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
For the Science at the Local Talk (November 18, 6pm, Penrith Library) I have found some more evidence of climate change in the Blue Mountains. To start off, here’s the graph of average extreme temperatures over the past century or so. This was obtained from the...
by Chris Webber | Jul 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
May 2024: Despite being reasonably well prepared, Olga got lost in the Devil’s Hole and spent the night near the Water Board ladders before being rescued by SES (probably BSAR) the next day. This story has many useful lessons and interesting insights and is well...
by Chris Webber | May 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
I have written an article about the likely effects of climate change on bushwalkers in the Blue Mountains. So far, nobody is responding to my emails but I hope to get it published some day. I thought the Blue Mountains Conservation Society might publish it, but it...
by Chris Webber | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
There happened to be a post about the disappearance of Belinda Peisley on Facebook yesterday, on the same day that I found an article six years before her disappearance about the death of an old lady in her street, which was very close to the area where Belinda died. ...
by Chris Webber | Mar 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
One of the most awful crimes in my book is the story of Sanjay Mehta, on page 264. Sanjay was an Indian national who lived in Blacktown. On 5 May 2008 he threw the bodies of his wife and nine-year-old daughter off Echo Point, having previously killed them at home. ...
