Nimmitabel is a small town in the Monaro region in southeast New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council local government area.
Nimmitabel is a small town in the Monaro region in southeast New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Councillocal government area.At the 2016 census, Nimmitabel had a population of 320.
History
1840 Locals started calling the village Nimoitebool
1845 Appears on Townsend's map as Nimmitabel
1858 Church was built
1857 Renewal of licence for hotel
1858 Post office arrives
1861 Bell's Store
1863 Separate Courthouse built
1865 Geldmacher builds windmill
1866 Cameron's Store opens
1869 Nimmitabel Public School opens
1912 Railway arrives
1921 Area's first saw-mill opens
1959 Used as location for multi-Oscar nominated film The Sundowners
1986 Railway closes
Weather
Nimmitabel has a cool maritime climate (Köppen Cfb) with mild summers and cold, frosty winters, with evenly-spread mild rainfall throughout the year. Frosts occur regularly during autumn, winter and spring, and occasionally occur even in summer, as on 20 December 1967 when the temperature fell in the morning to -2.2 °C or 28 °F. It is decently sunny, with 102.2 clear days annually.
Because of its elevation and southerly latitude, several snowfalls can be expected each year from May to September; occasionally, snow flurries may even occur in March (early autumn) or December (early summer). Although its location on the leeward side of the Great Dividing Range shield it from a lot of heavy snowfall events (see southeast Australian foehn).
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