It's all happening up your way tropo. I see another 140mm at Port Douglas today. Steady day here with 30mm so far.

Our yard has gone from brown and dead to green and a total bog in 4 days.

Bucketing down now and has been for the last half hour or so. Heaviest continuous rain we've had in years.

Like SM, the brown has gone green, and parts of the yard would probably be bog after this.

Coming down pretty steady here for the past couple of hours now...the radar looks to be showing it moving south of Daintree finally....hopefully you guys up there get a break tomorrow so you can get stuff cleaned up and Tropo can get back to get his car...12km walk..wow...shame you obviously havent seen that Ad that used to run on the TV...what was it...?...."if its flooded...floor it" or something like that I think.. ..Hmmm maybe not....How does the fruit trees look Tropo..?..hope they all survived..

Going to be some big totals between Cairns and Tully by morning I suspect...I also dont think I have ever seen the Gordonvale area get such a drenching...wow..

Glad you are getting some nice rain too 28..what an incredible system this is for December..it feels more like Feb/march..

Looks like the Palmerstone road to the tablelands is closed for a while from landslides and the Bruce highway south of Tully could well be cut toworrow if this rain keeps up all night.

I cant really sleep much when the rain is this intense...hmmm so much [censored]on Netflix too..its barely worth subscribing anymore.

BTW, I reading about some solar/hydrogen schemme that was approved for power in the Daintree a couple of years back..has anything ever become of that..?...it seems kind of weird that conservationists were so against running powerlines through there but are happy with most everyone needing to run dirty diesal generators every day...

Good morning folks :)

Well it sure is the system that just keeps giving :)
345mm here this morning and still raining.

Good to see it has given some areas to the south a bit of a drink too, don't want to keep all the good stuff for just us.


Cheers

Geez it looks wet on the Coast.
Amazing wet here, hardly stopped. The gauge looks half full, just waiting for the break I can see on the radar.

Edit: 65mm

Edited by user Sunday, 17 December 2023 9:03:34 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Another 283mm bit late on the measuring today, may have lost a little to overflow..

This is shaping up to be a real record breaker. Not that the records are all the old in some cases.
The flooding on the cairns beaches is an eye opener to all those people that brought old farm land.
Just imagine if this rain had a bit of a storm surge with it.

Still heavy rain here.


Cheers

ah mate I think there is some really bad stuff happening on the Northern beachs right now...

I saw myola rainfall total go from 150mm to 300mm in just over an hour (now at 1750mm for the week)

Imagine all this hurtling down the Barron...must be an absolute mess along the flood plain.....I saw on a Cairns fishing page someone asking for a boat to rescue 4 people and 3 dogs that are trapped on a roof at Hollaways and their cars have floated away..

Its just mind-boggling really..is Tinaroo also a consideration what happens once its full..?..Will that add to the flooding ..?

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Just checked the gauge at 3pm, 147mm since 9. Only require about 30mm for 1000mm for this rain event.

Not much flooding here just surface water. Went to town earlier and there's a lot of flooding in the manunda area.

Edit: That big orange yellow blob on the radar over the beaches hasn't moved all day.

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Luckily most of the Barron catchment is actually below Tinaroo, so hopefully not too much of an effect..

*Just tipped out 140mm since 1030am

Yeah only a couple of K's from the Gordonvale alert Scott so you could be right..

That footage from Ellis beach is insane!

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