4mm overnight. Just a lunchtime shower again yesterday. That rainband looked good on the radar last night.

YTD: 431mm

Very nice wet season weather down here as well with about half a metre of rain in the past week and some lovely cooler weather maxing out around 30c..

seems to be some excitement from some quarters of this low intensifying and heading back to the coast...guess we just have to wait and see what spins up next week...

So how are you Daintree guys going with the cleanup..?..hope there is not to much damage..

Thought i'd post a before and after pic of my little after-hours swimming hole project that I've been spending an hour or so after work on some days over the past 6 weeks or so with a few productive sessions with my son over xmas to move some of the larger ones that I was struggling with....probably moved about 25 ton of rock so far with the more recent underwater ones having to be prised up from the gravel using dive gear and a heavy weight belt and then rolled out....i generally do an hour or so moving rocks or sometimes less if I'm buggered after a few extra large ones then have a swim with the resident Jungle perch and sit back with a couple of beers to admire my handiwork...

Swimming hole was always a pain due to kicking and kneeing underwater rocks and even having to clamber 5 foot down over slippery steep rocks but now its about a third bigger, deeper and actually swimable and we can now just walk across a flat wall straight onto a shallow gravel beach for easy access...quite amazed myself for an old guy and lost a few kilos of weight and toned up a bit...

I have also been cutting out wait a while and other spiky stuff so come dry season I'll be creating a much easier path down into the gorge,building some concrete steps and generally landscaping it up nicely..Should have done it 20 years ago..

I wish i didnt have to work for a living..I'd much prefer just playing in the bush like a big kid....

Edited by user Wednesday, 17 January 2024 2:35:02 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hey Scott, great work, the most important question is can you slide down the waterfall into the pool?

Received this EWN notification about 5pm.

QUOTE:-
QLD Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Heavy Rain

Source: Bureau of Meteorology

For people in parts of North Tropical Coast and Tablelands, Maranoa and Warrego, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Peninsula and Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders Forecast Districts.

Issued at 4:47 pm Wednesday, 17 January 2024.
Severe thunderstorms continuing about the southern interior and about areas inland from Cairns.

Weather Situation: A trough low pressure and a humid airmass over the southern inland and low level convergence and a very moist airmass in the tropics is generating severe thunderstorms.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds and heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding over the next several hours in parts of the Maranoa and Warrego and Darling Downs and Granite Belt districts. Locations which may be affected include Cunnamulla, St George, Bollon, Dirranbandi, Hebel and Mungindi.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding over the next several hours in parts of the North Tropical Coast and Tablelands, Peninsula and Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders districts. Locations which may be affected include Mareeba, Atherton, Millaa Millaa, Ravenshoe, Julatten and Mount Garnet.
Mt Kanigan recorded 86.6 mm in the 2 hours to 1.52 pm.
Wild River recorded 57.0 mm in the 1 hour to 3.39 pm.
- UNQUOTE

Being at the apex of 3 different weather regions, we get warnings for all of them, with most never affecting us. LOL.

Yes 28 these evening / arvo storms are just perfect. What did you end up with 28?

Only 85mm here this morning , and some of that sure came down in a hurry. lol

Looks like another great day here.



Cheers

72mm last night.

It must have dumped down for about an hour solid.


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YTD: 258mm

Article on AI and weather models
https://www.theguardian....offers-earlier-forecasts

Mareebas turn now, copping 60mm in about 24 minutes

Oh how I miss the wZ days .

If the radar is half right tonight we should have some big totals along the coast.
If only we knew who had a gauge?

The potential cyclone next week seems to have people a bit flustered.
It's all doom and gloom, not washing away that chapter and moving on with what we have.
There is SFA we can do about what is to come, with or without the BoM's best. :)


Cheers

So do I. Still bugs me that the new owners deleted years and years of lived experience of all kinds of weather.

Tried tracking people down, a few times, but didn't recognise anyone beyond our group here. Still, as long as we hang in here, people will join us. Maybe slowly, but how long did WZ take.


Decisions to make. I was due to go shopping next week. Do I catch the bus into Mareeba tomorrow and stock up. Or do I risk waiting til Monday to drive myself. It looks like the rain will ease right off as the low moves to the east. The old Camry is a bit low when causeways are flooded, but not prepared to risk being stuck any sooner.
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/rainfall/pme.jsp

JTWC have noted the low - Number 90P.
https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html?tropical


Looks like it will move eastwards a bit before heading south.

Windy has it crossing at Townsville. GFS has it heading off to New Zealand.

Tropical Tidbits has their usual spaghetti arrangements.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#90P