 There was a fall of snow; we made snowballs at Enmore and enjoyed the usual schoolboy amusements therewith".The "Sydney Herald" reported on the same incident, saying, "for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants, snow fell in Sydney on the morning of Tuesday last.27 June 1836, about 7 o'clock in the morning, a drifting fall covered the streets nearly one inch in depth."