Do you know if there are records for Aloomba, Peets Bridge and Clyde Rd Gone Troppo?

14.2mm last night

That looks like the end of it except for maybe a few SE stream showers..

Nice to see most areas get a good drop too..

and yes, weary, finally some torrential enough rain to flush the creeks out...the water tastes 100% better and all the [censored]has washed off the creekbeds so I am really thankful for that...not often we get till mid-march still with dry season [censored]in the creeks..

So stealing YS's figures for the back of El Arish cause I'm to lazy to replace the last gauge my missus ran over, he has has 485mm for the month and 1603mm YTD..hopefully we will still get some decent late season falls instead of neverending drizzle till august..

Don’t even get me started on the bureau, archaic would be an understatement of the century these hacks cannot input simple data into an excel sheet in a timely fashion. How is it that backyard weather folk like myself and bunyip amongst many others can have timely rainfall data on our spreadsheets daily with up to date YTD data etc yet the bureau has so many stations that are so far behind it’s not funny. I get onto them regularly about this in my area for example Mossman south alchera drive has not been updating since June 2020, daintree village hasn’t been updated since October 2021. The answer I get from the is they are volunteers and we haven’t been able to contact them !!! Far out mate pick up the phone and keep calling them or emailing them to find out where the heck is the data, if the volunteer can’t do it anymore for whatever reason get a new volunteer heck I’ve put my hand up.

In our whole area Douglas shire the only station that reports with any regularity is whyanbeel valley and of course low isles which is useless as it’s an island off the coast and not relevant to rainfall on the coast. There is no Mossman stations at all except the mill which updates months behind. It’s 2022 This stuff should all be automatic and not relying on manual data waiting for people.

Sad isn't it ..

I'll be watering this arvo
Good spraying weather though


Cheers

This wet season is a epic fail, im sitting on less than half the average rainfall for feb and march, at this stage i will be lucky to make 2000mm for the year !!!!

Do you reckon something might happen Vanuatu way?
https://www.vmgd.gov.vu/...test-vanuatu-group-chart
#wishfulthinking

Is there hype about a cyclone? I don't watch TV or listen to weather reports. Just keep an eye on the cloud masses over the ocean and the weather charts.

It definitely feels like the Dry has set in here. Clear blue skies. Lower humidity. Not much cloud. A few dragonflies have appeared, and I'm seeing the odd crow around.

But there's a few serious ant mounds, and no mock orange blossom, our two main indicators of rain. They get as confused as us. But there's still a lot of low pressure systems around, anything could happen. 😁

Yeah Scott is was a shocker all that heat and no bang at the end of it.
Creeks are dropping quick and paddocks drying off been great for spraying but would be nice to
get a bit of rain before it cools off to much.

Yeah I'm dragging hoses around most arvo's, didn't think I would need water points till later
in the year, so now looking at where I'm going to put them and have to buy poly and fittings.

A very disappointing season all round, Ballina has overtaken me YTD :) just madness..


Cheers

TC Fili is doing the usual and heading off to NZ.

Apparently we had a sprinkle last night. I don't bother looking in the gauge either...lol. By the time I heard of it, whatever amount would've evaporated.

It's hard to talk about the weather, when there is none. But, I still look forward to everyone's input, on or off topic. At least in the Dry we can compete for the lowest temperatures.

Wondering how Simmo and Bong Water are.

Everything still looks green, thankfully no dust in town yet.

And, at last, *the road* is getting more work done. This last section to town, that should've been a continuation of the previous work - but when you see the amount of marble they've had to break up, I can see why they stalled. (Apparently good quality marble.) The middle section is being done as well, although the hundred or so meters each side of the grid near Gorge Creek is uncertain. And the Almaden section will not be done, not surprising.

As for the boys in the bureau, I think it's the cumulative funding cuts that are the problem. We're lucky they're there at all. At the rate we're going we'll be lucky to have much left in 5-8 years time. Then again, I'm not a farmer or fisher or in a business reliant on the BOM.

You notice the cuts with the ABC, not as polished as they used to be. And apparently 000 in South Australia is struggling, which is literally a disaster.

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