Disruptions to the ferry today. Sunday.

I had 155mm Friday, 150mm Saturday, and 140mm this morning and it is still raining on and off..
A nice end to our not so wet wet season.

Lots of people stuck on the PDR and food drops into Archer River roadhouse start today. Lol


Cheers

Absolutely bucketed down just before 6am. Hope they got the dawn service in before it started.

Not sure if anyone is up watching the radar it’s 10:20pm I’ve been walking around my yard with headlight we have a major flooding event happening here. My creek is way up the rain hasn’t stopped. I tipped out my gauge this arvo around 5pm and had 51mm in it I just walked past my gauge which holds 280mm and it’s maybe 3/4 full I’m waiting around to measure it because i can’t sleep with this sort of weather event happening. Pretty sure I’m going to lose a few good young fruit trees some of which have 6-10ft of water over top of them. This rain has just sat on top of us yet just to the north at daintree village looks like it’s clear !!!! Will update later or in morning

Thanks 28

Just measure the gauge 278.75mm since this morning and still raining

Thanks for your update Dormant. Hope some of your seedlings survive anyway.

How is everyone else in daylight this morning?

Looks like it's dumping on Townsville now.

Wondering how you went Scott.

Of course, that short sprinkle yesterday afternoon with 3mm was all we had. 😁

Edited by user Tuesday, 26 April 2022 6:46:06 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Beautiful morning guys almost like winter is just around the corner!!! Rain ended up slow to a complete stop not long after I last reported. Ended up with 293mm most of which fell between 8-11pm. Flattened a few of my young mangosteens to the ground and ripped most of the shade cages off the trees, they should survive hopefully going to stake them back up. I’m at 801mm for the month which is even bigger than last years April weather event of 777mm. Is April the new wet season month ??

Looks like the Daintree mob got a good soaking...

Down here most places were around the 450-600mm mark of nice soaking rain...

Some bananas and cane down but no real flood problems...

Pretty nice really and badly needed for a creek flush...

Shame about the garden damage up there tropo and Dormant....I just had a fit young wwoofer dig over my annual vege garden before the rain and then covered about 25 metres square with black plastic so the rain didnt mess it up...I pulled the plastic off and its ready to go now with pakchoi, radish, parsely,basil, beans,cucumbers snowpeas and other quick growing annuals so hopefully we wont get any more torrential events...might have to make a clear plastic roof if bad weather is forecast..with the price and lack of decent vege's, I'm looking forward to some some fresh garden produce this winter...

I really need a freezer filling reef trip too but it looks like no chance of that anytime soon ..

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Interesting about the radar luckily it didn't go down with our recent rain events.

So this is not something you see everyday, for the first 4 months of the year Iam in front of the mighty Tully sugar mill by 0.2mm lol, I was sitting on 1983.5mm up until the end of april and Tully Sugar mill was 1983.3mm !!!! they have since pulled past me with a wet start to may compared to dry here but still this would be a very rare occurrence i would think.

Bunyip is way ahead of tully and probably even Babinda at this stage. Babinda still hasnt logged april data yet which I find very frustrating considering it is the wettest town in australia you would think they would be a bit more proactive and proud to send through more regular data.

Yeh your probably right just thought maybe out of the entire town of Babinda Australia wettest town that there would be someone there proactive about recording rainfall but I guess Iam probably one of a kind fanatical rainfall follower. Still its 2022 and so prehistoric that we have to wait a month or more to see rainfall data come through probably sent by horse and cart down to BOM in melbourne. Should be able to see up to date rainfall data for any town in Australia. Im sure over in the states you can.

Scott
I'll just make my annual statement…
Rain and showers until the Cairns Show.