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22:40 absolutely dumping it down.
Heaviest rain all day.
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Same here 28. That train has come ashore.
Torrential now.
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Last check of the gauge tonight, about 80mm. The radar image promised better than that but can't complain. (1136PM) Edit: Quite a shower.  Edited by user Monday, 3 February 2025 11:45:00 PM(UTC)
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Plenty of yellow and red on the radar in that blob that went over Cairns SM...now its all heading to what looks like an area of convergence between Tully and Ingham and also out to west is getting hammered...except for Chillagoe and Ravenshoe of course... Could be a wet night for us down this way..thankfully for them the wet spot seems just north of townsville so far.. Edited by user Monday, 3 February 2025 11:48:37 PM(UTC)
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98mm, 380mm 1st 4 days of Feb |
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2024: 1884mm (no records April-Sept)
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Just missed a Gauge Overflow Emergency this morning (phew) 142mm til 6am.
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Also that rain out west is bugger (Georgetown 125mm) given the alternative to the Bruce Highway is up to Normanton then across through Georgetown
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Originally Posted by: Weary  Also that rain out west is bugger (Georgetown 125mm) given the alternative to the Bruce Highway is up to Normanton then across through Georgetown Finally, the North might be turning into a problem they can no longer ignore. Although... On FB, yesterday evening people in Mareeba said IGA was well stocked and there were trucks coming through Mount Garnet. Tablelands to Tabletop sold a weeks worth of local produce yesterday - they've closed today while they pick up more produce and handle the extra web orders. Saw a video of the range, something to avoid. Just checked the gauge. It was overflowing so somewhere above 130mm.
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156mm in the gauge this morning. The rain has eased here in the last hour and seems to have moved a bit east and south.
930.5mm in the last 10 days, quite a change.
Feb: 411mm
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A measly 98mm down here... At least the creek has had a nice flush...I spent a good session in the swimming hole yesterday removing a couple of tons or so of newly exposed rocks..great exhausting exercise and it just keeps getting bigger and deeper every flush out when i do this.. 28...I'm skeptical of what can be acheived at being able to raise the highway to levels that would reduce the flooding impact....imagine the funding needed to raise the highway even just across the Ingham floodplain let alone the stretchs down near Proserpine... and it didnt take long to overflow that new gauge, did it...  Is there a rain guage on Green island at all...seems to be a constant stream of rain flowing through there just just occasionally moves west and hits Cairns before moving back out just offshore...what a strange setup its been for days now...
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Checked the BOM climate data online Scott and Green Island did have a gauge but it was closed in 1997. Rain has stopped here at the moment. Edit 1130hrs: Looks like more showers moving in from the north by the radar. Edited by user Tuesday, 4 February 2025 11:31:13 AM(UTC)
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Hahaha Scott, didn't take long to overflow. Should've done a check before I turned off the lights. Or bought a bigger gauge. As for the highway, it's more the bridges I'm thinking of, some are so old. Some innovative design maybe so the water isn't hitting a solid flat wall. Raising the road has its own problems damming the water - they did that in the Kimberly and destroyed many acres of pastureland when the water couldn't get away. 11:50 Rain has pretty much stopped here too. Edit 12:15. Rain again, with a temperature drop. Edited by user Tuesday, 4 February 2025 12:16:58 PM(UTC)
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Absolutely bucketing down in Edge Hill ATM
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The rain just arrived here Weary. Pouring.
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Its been really interesting watch it over past days on the radar..
Just about guarenteed that is it was a SE flow the mountains by Yarrabah would interupt the rainfall from directly coming over Cairns but on this northerly flow its seems to at times to direct really heavy downpours right over Cairns between the Yarrabah range and the main mountain range out along the western side of the City but not further west towards the tablelands... Its really quite amazing to see days and days of large and consisent rainfall totals in Cairns without actually being under convergent rainfall...
10 day charts showing no real reprieve till early next week when a coral sea low drags the weather off to the SE..be nice if that happens to get a few sunny days..
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Bucketing here the last hour just down the hill from you Weary. Fair but of water lying around.
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Your right Scott, it's a bit unusual for Cairns to be in these continuous narrow heavy rainbands from the north. Normally we get this when there's a low or cyclone in the Gulf. It just got torrential as I type. Lots of water lying around here too 28. Cairns city area seems to have done well, lots of thunder has been coming from that direction. Edit 1400: About 40mm here. Edited by user Tuesday, 4 February 2025 2:02:40 PM(UTC)
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Rain has eased off tho still sprinkling.
14:00 ... Emptied the gauge with just on 80mm.
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starting to get some flash flooding down this way now..Plenty of water throughout Mission beach as well after South mission recorded 140mm in the past 2 hours...
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