Friday, February 04, 2011

Meeting Postponed

The meeting with the council officers in relation to the COLDSTREAM 2020 proposal was postponed last night to a future date.

I will let you know more when a new date is confirmed.

Regards

Mario Galteri

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Weather statistics for January for Coldstream Estate.

Average temperature = 20.4°C

Average humidity = 71%

Average dewpoint = 14.2°C

Average barometer = 1010.3 hPa

Average windspeed = 2.6 km/h

Average gustspeed = 4.7 km/h

Average direction = 149° (SSE)

Rainfall for month = 98.4 mm

Coldstream Ave = 50.0 mm

Rainfall for year = 98.4 mm

Maximum rain per minute = 1.2 mm on day 12 at time 16:50

Maximum temperature = 40.0°C on day 31 at time 16:40

Minimum temperature = 6.0°C on day 03 at time 05:59

Maximum humidity = 97% on day 28 at time 08:36

Minimum humidity = 20% on day 30 at time 16:14

Maximum dewpoint = 23.6°C on day 31 at time 17:37

Minimum dewpoint = 4.7°C on day 03 at time 5:48

Maximum pressure = 1021.9 hPa on day 28 at time 09:58

Minimum pressure = 997.8 hPa on day 13 at time 04:03

Maximum windspeed = 25.9 kmh from 360°( N ) on day 13 at time 05:35

Maximum gust speed = 44.4 km/h from 360°( N ) on day 13 at time 05:35

Maximum heat index = 45.3°C on day 31 at time 16:42

Avg daily max temp :27.9°C

Avg daily min temp :14.4°C

Total windrun = 1876.4km

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Daily rain totals

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00.4 mm on day 8

03.8 mm on day 10

06.2 mm on day 11

13.4 mm on day 12

31.0 mm on day 13

34.6 mm on day 14

07.4 mm on day 23

01.6 mm on day 25

Robert Bethell

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Homeless stung | Upper Yarra Mail | Star News Group Local community news

Homeless stung By Kath Gannaway

Their submission quoted the 2006 census showing more than 500 people were homeless in the Shire of Yarra Ranges including 64 people living on the streets. Many, the submission said, would be sleeping in their car.

“It is our concern that the proposed by-law has the ability to criminalise homelessness in the Yarra Ranges municipality,” the submission states.

It( Salvation Army) said a lack of affordable housing options led to people sleeping in their cars and that agencies working with the homeless have experienced an increase in that situation.

Any fines imposed on people sleeping in cars would add to their poverty, it said.

To read the full story click on the TITLE above.

Prices up for homes in Ranges (Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader, 01 Feb 2011, Page 3)

Prices up for homes in Ranges
Property | Alex Munro and Kimberley Seedy
Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader
01 Feb 2011

HOUSING prices in the Yarra Ranges have outperformed their outer eastern neighbours, surging more than 12 per cent over the past year. The median house price for the Yarra Ranges were $450,500 in the December 2010 quarter, according to the latest Real...read more...