And here, 170mm since that's about the best guess for a full gauge. And not yet finished but mostly.

Last 24 hours total is 170 plus 80 = 250mm. I can hear the small local creek roar.

Lol 248mm here bringing me to 1048mm YTD and our wettest January on my records.
another nice shower coming through as I type.

All the creeks were really pumping just on dark last night as I went for a look around.
Great to get a good clean out.



Cheers

I was amazed to be able to hear our creek roaring earlier this month. A treat.




Back to my "envious" comments again. Had to give the food patch a water yesterday evening.

Another 99 mm here at Holloways, and a heavy shower just now.

I'm liking not having to water the veggie garden this year,- (yet),- but not liking the bloody cicadas. This year, they are the worst
I've heard them in the 33 years I've been at this house. They must like the big clumps of melaleuca trees I live amongst.

Yewww, cicadas, they'd drive me potty... more potty. They're evident as we drive past Ellis Beach, makes me bless we don't have attractive trees, whatever they are and if we did, they'd get the chop. We had a stray in the atrium a few weeks ago and it was well worth the can of spray to silence it - oh golly, are they native pes.. animals?

18mm and a nice southeasterly flow... to a swirly thingy, hmmm.

I've got three hours work of waterblasting on atrium pavers to save our necks, hips and whatever from the black slimy growth over the last few weeks, sighs. Now if I were the gadget person I wouldn't have to use the machine but since I'm mechanically clueless the division of labour means I'm it. "))

528.5mm for January. That's probably a record for us.

Just went back thru my rain records for January. No idea about 2020 as I was away from mid Jan to mid Feb - completely missed The Wet here in Chillagoe.

Jan 2015 -- 147mm over 21 days
Jan 2016 -- 195.5mm over 15 days
Jan 2017 -- 393mm over 23 days
Jan 2018 -- 95mm over 9 days
Jan 2019 -- 321mm over 13 days

Yes, temps have been good, but warming up a bit here now.

This forecast rainfall is the most frustrating thing to look at, when you see Chillagoe in an empty white blob surrounded by all kinds of colours.
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/rainfall/pme.jsp

Back to whinging about scattered showers not making it this far...

Lucas is long gone.

Now east of 160°E, and heading to the SW of Vila. It's Fiji's baby now.
Doesn't look like they are thinking that it may come back.

Not the sort of WX one would expect for our wettest month of the year.

Under the sheet again last night,- clear night (mostly), and dew on the car just before dawn.
When the BoM's weekly note said no rain for two weeks,- they seem to be close to the money.

Today's note made mention of:-

"Long-range weather models indicate that a tropical low is expected to form within this trough over the Gulf of Carpentaria in the coming days. The presence of this low may re-invigorate the monsoon flow, even as the MJO pulse moves to a location not typically favourable for enhanced tropical weather for northern Australia.

Depending on the movement of the tropical low, this could lead to monsoon conditions extending across much of the breadth of northern Australia, increasing the likelihood of further widespread rainfall during the next fortnight."

Maybe just a wait and see scenario.