Lake Cowan Gypsum weather

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About Lake Cowan Gypsum

Lake Cowan Gypsum is an operating industrial minerals mine in Western Australia, 5 km south-west of Norseman. The forecast above is for the mine itself, at -32.23, 121.74.

Norseman is the nearest town with 30-year climate averages. January is its hottest month, with an average high of 32°, and January its wettest, with 34 mm on average. Month-by-month climate for Norseman

Rain a year
309 mm
Days reaching 35°
33
Days reaching 40°
6
Heat-stress days
51
Heat-stress stop days
8

Regional guide: Goldfields and Murchison weather for site work

Averages for 1995–2024. Rain days have 1 mm or more. Heat-stress days are when the estimated wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) at the day’s peak reaches 28°, the caution level Lumen Sites starts with (stop days reach 32°). It uses the Bureau of Meteorology’s simplified formula, which assumes moderate sun and light wind: how heat stress is estimated. Climate averages: SILO (Queensland Government, CC BY 4.0), interpolated from Bureau of Meteorology observations.

Lightning alerts for Lake Cowan Gypsum

Lake Cowan GypsumTownsOther operating minesStop, 10 kmWarning, 30 kmLumen Sites’ default distances, in a straight line; you set your own for each site.

Lumen Sites checks for lightning within 100 km of Lake Cowan Gypsum every 5 minutes while storms are forecast or strikes are nearby. Strikes inside your warning and stop distances, 30 and 10 km by default, set the site to Caution or Stop until a 30-minute all-clear. It also forecasts heat stress (WBGT), gusts, rain and blasting conditions hour by hour against your own limits.

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Mines near Lake Cowan Gypsum

Other operating mines within 100 km, measured in a straight line. Mine locations: MINEDEX © Government of Western Australia (DEMIRS) and Australian Operating Mines © Geoscience Australia, CC BY 4.0.