Penny Gold weather
Reading the forecast…
About Penny Gold
Penny Gold is an operating precious metals mine in Western Australia, 129 km south-east of Mount Magnet. The forecast above is for the mine itself, at -28.85, 118.81.
Mount Magnet is the nearest town with 30-year climate averages. January is its hottest month, with an average high of 38°, and February its wettest, with 41 mm on average. Month-by-month climate for Mount Magnet
- Rain a year
- 255 mm
- Days reaching 35°
- 95
- Days reaching 40°
- 30
- Heat-stress days
- 105
- Heat-stress stop days
- 27
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 Penny Gold
Lumen Sites checks for lightning within 100 km of Penny Gold 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.
Set up Penny Gold in Lumen SitesSee the live demo
A$999 a month for up to 5 sites. Decision support only: it does not replace your site’s procedures or on-site monitoring.