2mm here overnight. Could be a few nice days coming up. BOM is saying moderate to heavy rain could return on the weekend or early next week.

just 14mm to 9am..

Showers throughout the day..

I see Gladstone has only had 69mm for both feb and March combined...it certainly looked dry and crispy just inland from there last week while most everywhere else right through to the QLD border at Goondiwindi looked pretty lush..

I guess we will see what happens SM...it would be nice for the creeks to get another flush out before the end of the wet...

Not quite as much as you Bunyip here with 71mm but still a wet night. It was really heavy at 9 when I checked the gauge.

Good question Scott. I think the airport weather station is at the met office on the west side of the runway. I don't know about the alert, maybe in the Internationl terminal area.

5mm here today, just drizzle.

Edit: Tropical lows looking few and far between for our area on GFS for the next 2 weeks at the moment. Could be a sign.

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Ron I’m hearing you here, our kids sports are constantly being cancelled having to juggle changing leave with work to try keep up with all the date changes.

Pretty wet month here in the bamboo valley so far up to 888mm as of this morning ready for it to end now.

7mm overnight. Same here on this part of the coast yesterday, as the blob tried to approach it fell apart. Seems to be a bit of heavier rain around this morning.

Cyclone Ita was a cat4 that crossed the coast in April. There's still a chance.

Edit: I remember Ita well, it knocked the gutters down off the back of the house.

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just 10.5mm ..

Not quite the deluge predicted also with bugga-all forecast down here for the week ahead....It really does seem like the forecasters just make it up on a daily basis..

Seems the blob has reformed over Townsville this morning and heading slowly southward towards the Whitsundays...

We had to slow down on the highway just south of Proserpine, where a low lying lagoony area was right up to road level because there was a couple of caravans parked on the road shoulder protruding into the actual roadway...one fella was hooked up to a jumping fish, presumably barra,standing on the edge of the bitumen with the rest of the party running along toward him watching excitedly and cheering him on.....sure to be an enduring tale of a cool holiday moment..

Weary did you go inland from Rockhampton or from Townsville to Charters towers and then down..?..and yep its a long enough Journey just to get to outback NSW let alone melbourne..why do you not fly..?

Scott, the ‘ville, charters towers, lightning ridge, Albury melb. My darling son buggered off to NZ at short notice leaving his car behind. Decided to take a holiday and deliver it to his sister in Melb.

Flew home

Was driving along the Great Ocean Road, came around a corner and there were 2 cars parked in middle of the road with hazzard lights on and people running all over the road. Thought my first aid/emergencey skills would be required. But no, two cars had blocked the road so they could get out and take photos of a (live) koala that was on the side of the road. ~^<]€<{ tourists.

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1.5mm here and overcast but not raining so far today..

Had to do laundry yesterday but waiting on washing machine repair so decided to chuck my clothes in a crab pot and tie it in a spa pool below our cascades..worked really well but unfortunately no tasty crustaceans were caught.

My road trip days are probably over with both parents now gone ..This last trip (missus stayed home to look after the place as she always has done unfortunately)was with my son and despite the sad circumstances it was nice to spend some time with him and see how he has matured over the past couple of years (23 now)...

We also worked really well together after my front brakes started siezing from to many water crossings in and out of our place this wet season..happened just one hour into a 20 hr trip so the only real option was limp it into my sons rental place in townsville and race around looking for a couple of new front calipers after not being able to find a mechanic to change them out that day and needing to get to a funeral in less then 48 hrs, we were able to get the job done in his front driveway with minimum tools and despite every bolt being so stuck without once getting upset with each other...we were away again in just a couple of hours..he seemed to appreciate learning something new and it was a big step forward in our relationship.....our previous roadtrips havent always been so smooth..

Worst part of these previous yearly trips was having to do them in such a hurry and not having to time to stop and visit some of the places like Carnarvon Gorge and the dams and lagoons along the way....we usually do the back road to Charters Towers and down which is quicker and less congested but this time we went via Rocky in case anything else went wrong with the car we would be closer to civilization....its a more interesting drive that way too although crossing the Fitzroy river in Rocky is very difficult without wanting to stop and toss some lures there...there have been many huge Barra and Threadfin caught right around the bridge in the middle of the City lately since the net free areas were implemented there....

Youtube link below of a Bloke recently catching 5 x 1200mm or larger barra in one session...thats the stuff dreams are made of..!..and might become acheivable right along the coast when Gillnets are banned in the next couple of years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4N09cW1KKM

Edited by user Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:16:36 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Well that was nice, lying in bed listening to a thunderstorm pass overhead and steady rain falling . 51 mm so far.