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Some heavy rain overnight. 113 mm overall with about 100 mm in 2 hours.
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77mm here this morning. We had a good thunderstorm yesterday arvo, about 30mm in half an hour. Plenty of lightning. Hopefully more of the same today.
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Random thunderstorms seem to be the flavour of the month for the whole district..!..Humidity has been pretty heavy down here as well..
I dont quite remember such a stormy january before...almost daily we expect at some stage to see the clouds billowing over the hills behind us and some of the thunder and lightening has been pretty exceptional..
For the second time ever we had some ball lightening travel through the shack last week..I only saw it out of the corner of my eye but it scared the [censored]out of the missus and the modem blew up...
We also had around a 100mm downppour with one the storms which cause the creek to quickly rise and is keeping the ground pretty slushy...trying to get the mowing and spraying caught up is a challenge..
So when do we expect the next monsoon hit will be..?
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2nd day of the month without rain here. The forecast has a low forming to the north in the next few days and then heading off to the east.
The GFS has it quite dry for the rest of the month at the moment.
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YTD: 391mm
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Geez Scott, sounds lucky to only loose the modem, Mate in kans lost most of his house electrical a couple of weeks back
A/C's , tv's ,laptop, modem ect ect and that his was a couple of doors down he said.
Storms have been missing us , Just relentless humidity and very uncomfortable arvo's ...
Water yesterday morning going to town was like glass..
Forecasts dropping away :(
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Yeah real lucky Bunyip..felt that familiar tingle where all your hair stands on end moments before the lightning ball raced across the living room..as i said ive only seen it once before but still knew straight away what it was... Anyway the good news is that a telstra guy arrived out today and as we are the only ones still on landline along here finally offered to hook up starlink for free and on a like for like cost plan... Do any of you guys have starlink through telsta or from Elon..?..is one way better then the other...? and yeah humidity is crazy...a hard slog doing hours of physical work in this...we started at 6 this morning and knocked off by 11 and go back at 4 to finish off...I needed a pretty decent nana nap today.. mornings have been good looking on the sea but with the storms around and the wind picking up before lunch we havent bothered...hard to get motivated in the heat... Too hot for most to get to the range on Saturday so i got greedy and set up 3 bays for drills, steel, and to sight in the red dot on the 9mm ..put a couple hundred rounds through the 9mm and a few hundred more of .22 and also did really well on the 50 and 75 meter blue turkey targets....Now I know the gun shoots well I'll push them out to 100 metres next weekend.. Ive attached these pics sideways in case anyone is likely to be triggered by guns or attractive women ...  I saw the young lady standing back from the cubicles while her boyfriend , his brother and their father were shooting up the place and asked her why she wasnt shooting..She said she was scared of guns and had never shot one before..said she was afraid of the recoil and noise...so i showed her my .22 and explained there was no recoil or much noise and even managed to get her to take a few shots at the yellow ducks ......she was shaking a bit but absolutely loved it so i loaded another mag up for her fixed up her stance and grip a bit and she got so confident she had a few shots of the fathers glock 9mm and also a .22 rifle...maybe I've created a monster..i dont know but the smile on her face as she left with the lads was just priceless... i reckon a lot of people that have a perception about guns in their minds might find they wuld actually enjoy some target practise if they were open to trying new things..  
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Good morning crew :)
well 2mm in the gauge this morning, I only checked because the grass was wetter than dew. Don't know where it came from
& I'd like a bit more :)
I've got the starlink mini on a roam standby plan for $8.50 PM, it's basically dialup speeds, but good enough to look
at the weather or check emails, I have watched a bit of youtube on it with only a bit of buffering.
I get unlimited ADSL from Telstra and at the Mo that is still cheaper than starlink but it's close now starlink is offering
100gig for $80pm ... I keep the starlink for when the ADSL goes down at this stage, but am in the process of looking at all
our services and thinking about value for money. I'm paying to much for stuff I don't think I need any more..
The starlink mini on the $8.50 a month would be a good deal for you 28, with you traveling, give you phone calls anywhere.
Scott: Great job on spending the time and encouraging the young lady to have a go, I think you are right, a lot of people
just listen to all the doom and aren't open minded enough to have a go for themselves. It's like teaching some to drive
their dad / boyfriend / mum, might not be the best to bring out the best in the new recruit, someone from outside the
circle can relax them and show where they are failing in a less confrontational manner and next thing they are away, enjoying
the new found passion.
Poor thing has probably stood around a few times board shitless thinking what a waste of time, now she has the confidence to
say hey it's my turn, step aside and watch this , great job..
I was wondering if you had silly wets down there, I've made a few but not a full set yet, must get busy and do a few more.
Since moving here (4 years) I'm not shooting enough as I can't just go out the back door and shoot off a mag or 2, I need to
load up everything and drive around to a mates paddock, so it's just not happening enough.
I've just reconditioned my Xmas tree target and got that down at a mates place, good fun with a couple of leaver or pump .22
racing against each other..
Gray start to today, and very steamy walking the dog before light, had to have a second shower already.
Looks like all the weather that could of been has now gone east / south east.
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The young lady looks to be really enjoying shooting the targets Scott. It must have been a great experience for her. The range looks in good condition after all the rain down that way lately. Your right Bunyip, everything is moving to the E and SE at the moment. The GFS rain map from Tropical tidbits for the next 10 days is looking grim at present.  Jan: 391.5mm YTD: 391.5mm
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Could do with some more rain in Mareeba. Couple storms yesterday but passed quickly.
I do have a Starlink mini, Bunyip. Bought end of 2024 on special, paying $15. Haven't needed to use it yet. Thought I'd be travelling sooner, lol. I no longer make plans.
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Picked up 12mm overnight :)
Lots of talk about 18U but I'm not so sure it's going to do much for us over here.
Well you are all set then 28 , hope the travels go smoothly when you do take off.
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Well I was a little surprised to find 149mm in the gauge this morning, must of slept well. lol .
Been on the phone to council and reported that the temporary causeway has washed over and is only just passable,
again, 18months and counting and no clear sign of when we will get a new bridge.
I wonder what today will bring ?
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Cool enough to sleep without aircon so I could lie in bed a listen to the rain, 68mm overnight. The pool is full and I can almost hear the grass growing.
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43mm here overnight. A good heavy shower between 7 and 8 this morning. I got the back yard mowed yesterday, I don't know about the front one today. Forecast is wet for the next few days.
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Happy Australia Day
Wow we had a cracker of a storm last night around 22:00 seems to have blown the phone line and took out the power to one side of the house
but it was lucky the circuit breaker tripped and everything seems to be OK
Setup the starlink and I'm back online..
Some of the biggest loudest thunder we have had for a long time, real house shakers, and left 36mm in the gauge..
Hot and steamy morning now , got a few kg of prawns about to boil and a loaf of fresh bread in the oven for crusty white bread sandwiches & beers later.
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Ah mate...it sux these nearby lightening strikes... Our line is still crap..can barely maintain a connection on the internet...just waiting for the starlink stuff to arrive...we will just give up the landline entirely now as they have told us they wont be maintaining it anymore.. Not exactly sure how much rain we had last night but the creek was dirty and up a bit...some falls exceeding 100mm around the district..radar showing a bit of a blob down between Ingham and Townsville..What is it about that area the past couple of years...great annual rainfall totals for the usually dry Rollingstone area last year..geographically it doesnt really make sense that it seems to be catching these convergent rainfall events... Was set to start work at the usual time of 6 this morning but still a bit rainy so slept in till 7 and was all good...light rain again now but at least its cool at 26c at 9am this morning...going to have the usual fresh poached eggs from my lovely little black girls this morning and get back at it.. Happy Australia day ..!..and enjoy the crustaceans Bunyip, sounds like a relaxing day is planned up there..! Edited by user Monday, 26 January 2026 9:24:22 AM(UTC)
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Happy Australia Day everyone. A bit of sunshine here so far today. We had bacon and eggs for breakfast earlier, very nice.
33mm in the gauge here overnight. Good thunderstorms around last night, no close strikes though luckily. It looks like the monsoon trough is going to linger in our area for a few days so more of the same coming hopefully.
Jan: 467.5mm
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Well that was a wild past 18 hrs..My son had to leave around 4pm yesterday arvo as our creek was rising fast, then we got another close lightning strike which blew out the phone but nothing else...very lucky..I heard it blow moments before the simultaneous lightning and thunder..How does it work that its actually blown BEFORE the arrival of the electrical energy..? Anyway the line itself is still kinda working...I didnt put out a measuring device till after 8pm which recorded around 100mm but there was likely another 100 or more in the 5 hours previous...and the usual low lying flooding around Tully Mission beach area this morning and a 4m croc spotted just a couple of Km's out of Tully on the flooded Mission beach road which isnt tidal.. and Cowley beach again with 272mm .. This is the road going to the range out at Kurrimine 2 weeks back after Cowley/Kurrimine got those back to back 300 plus totals.although its very sandy black soil it just doesnt drain well because its also pretty swampy with a high water table..it also sets like concrete when it dries out.. SM, i try and avoid Bacon as i can virtually feel it on my waistline an hour later unfortunately...lol..Damn this aging metabolism... . 
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Scott, my physics is rudimentary but isn’t there a line of plasma (invisible) that the spark of electricity follows.? Streamers and Leaders: The initial, invisible channel is formed by "streamers"—filaments of weak plasma that branch out from the cloud, seeking a path of least resistance. These streamers aggregate at a "stem" to form a "leader," which is a hot, more conductive plasma channel (over 5,000 K) that propagates toward the ground. Edited by user Tuesday, 27 January 2026 9:54:55 AM(UTC)
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Exciting stuff down your way Scott by the sound of things. Lots of red dots on the rainfall and river height chart between Innisfail and T'Ville.
A quiet day here yesterday with 4mm in the gauge. We must be north of the trough at the moment. Apparently it's moving north from today so we might get a bit more action here.
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