We have a collection of images showing snow, the majority being of the big fall in 1984, however, there were other falls substantial enough to be considered  worthy of recording dated c.1894, c.1900s 1905, 1906, 1906-07, 1908, c. 1910, c.1920,  1928, 1932, 1930s, c.1940s, c.1950s, July 1963, 1984, 2000 and July  2015.

What will this winter bring? Maybe we’ll have another good snowfall fall for ChillnGlen on July 21-22 .

Lennox Walker, Inigo Jones  Peter Norvil were all well-known  weather forecasters. Over the years, weather reports in the Examiner include the issue of January 14, 1964 which, in purple prose, detailed possibly the most memorable nasty weather the district has seen:

“An 80-mile-an-hour hurricane, the worst-ever known in the district leapt out in fiery and irresponsible vengeance against Glen Innes yesterday, erupting buildings and trees, transforming peace into fear and leaving a picture of desolation where once there was beauty and tranquillity...

“The wind accompanied by heavy rain blasted through Glen Innes for an hour and a half. It struck about 11.30am.

“The town’s 46 acres of parklands, famed throughout the north for the magnificence of their trees, within minutes became a scene of wilderness and destruction… almost every tree in the park was attacked, having branches torn away and several mature exotic species were unrooted, never to be replaced in a lifetime.

“At the height of the gale shops and houses were unroofed, a brick wall of the two-storey Grand Theatre building crumbled and flying plate glass gashed a man in the back.

“No part of the town was spared the anger of the wind and the torrents rain and hundreds of thousands of pounds damage was caused to buildings, fallen power lines and telephone lines…

“A branch smashed a window of the Glen Innes High School where children attending the Department of Education vacation play centre were sheltering.

“The hurricane was the tail end of the cyclone ‘Little Audrey’ which engulfed Southern Queensland and Northern NSW...”