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Oh yeah....its lashing it down and oh wait.....just changed to hail and severe gusts 70mph and we r due all of februarys rain in the next 2 days!

 

 

You're all having a horrible time in the south atm, aren't you. It's not brilliant up here, but nothing like you're all having - you'll all be growing webbed feet at this rate! Keep safe everyone.

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My OH is on Barrow Island at the moment an apparently its the windiest place in Australia or so he's been told .

 

It was at one stage, well, the Montebello Islands...The poms detonated some atomic devices in the 1950s.

 

[h=3]British nuclear weapons tests[edit][/h]Main article: British nuclear weapons tests

The Montebello island were the site of three nuclear weapons tests by the British militaryduring the 1950s.

A bay on Trimouille Island was the site of Operation Hurricane, the first ever atomic weapon tested by the United Kingdom, on 3 October 1952.

While most subsequent British tests were conducted at sites on mainland Australia, in 1956 there were two further tests, on Alpha and Trimouille Islands respectively. The second of these, codenamed "G2", included the largest nuclear explosion in Australia, with a yield of 98 kilotons.

 

 

 

Cheers, Bobj.

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