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It's hard to tell how long the highway will be cut at Ingham Scott. The forecast has more good rain in the next week or two for that part of the coast.
The Feb average here between 2011 and 2021 was 459mm so 518 in the first 5 days is well above normal.
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Originally Posted by: Weary  https://data.qldtraffic.qld.gov.au/htmlreports/statehighways.html
This table gives a good summary of what’s happening with major roads. That's a good one Weary, thanks. Much better than this....  
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Current T'ville radar image not looking good for the Ingham road closures.  Edit: Up to around 50mm there so far today. Edited by user Wednesday, 5 February 2025 5:56:42 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Sheridan Mist
Just got back from woollies G'vale and the shelves are very empty there.
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Originally Posted by: Sheridan Mist It's hard to tell how long the highway will be cut at Ingham Scott. The forecast has more good rain in the next week or two for that part of the coast.
The Feb average here between 2011 and 2021 was 459mm so 518 in the first 5 days is well above normal. Army have some of their mobile bridge going out tomorrow, not sure how long it takes them to set up. |
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It's all about the drive on the new road Ron, not the shopping  Things are not looking good if they're bringing in the army to try and fix this problem.
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I'm really missing out at home this year. :(
Only 10mm in the gauge this morning.
However I was working over the hill in Cow Bay yesterday and it was pouring down more than half the day.
So much depends on the direction the weather comes from..
Lot's of stars out this morning on my walk, have not seen that for a fair while.
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What a difference a day makes! Only 1.5mm since 9am yesterday. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I don't expect that to change between now and 9am today Edited by user Thursday, 6 February 2025 6:36:51 AM(UTC)
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10mm here this morning. Blue sky and sunshine so far today. Time to start on the lawn and weeds if this keeps up for a few days. The yard is looking like [cencored] at the moment.
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7mm Thought the rain had gone. Standing in Cairns Central carpark. The mountains disappearing fast and I'm about to get wet... 11:35am 11:55am ... All gone by. Looking very white to the south now. Edited by user Thursday, 6 February 2025 11:56:10 AM(UTC)
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Good monsoon flow at the moment, I traced the isobars on bom gradient level wind chart and it's flowing down through the Phillipines to us. It just needs a trigger and heavy rain will be back I reckon. Feb: 528mm YTD: 1204.5mm Edit: I had a second thought, send the chart  Edited by user Thursday, 6 February 2025 4:22:51 PM(UTC)
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We are getting one of those flows between the main range and Yarrabah range that Scott was talking about ATM. It’s bucketing down.
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11.5mm out of that storm here. Good lightning and thunder around. WZ forecast 10-20 so it was right on so far today.
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So apparently the army "Bridge" is only taking essential vehicles, cannot take heavy vehicles and can only do 2km/hr over it so low range basically.  *Some proper heavy showers in Atherton today. Edited by user Thursday, 6 February 2025 7:28:38 PM(UTC)
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That bridge sounds like a bandaid solution Ron. Their probably sucking up because there's a federal election coming up. Maybe I'm just being cynical. Edit: Looks like good rain south of about Innisfail on the radar again tonight. Edited by user Thursday, 6 February 2025 9:20:51 PM(UTC)
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Around 6pm last night we had a dump of 35mm at close enough to 60mm/h from one of those lines of orange coming down the coast - it rained so hard, Starlink turned off!
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45 mm overnight, most of that in about 1.5 hours yesterday afternoon
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15.5mm here. Nice storms around yesterday arvo. It's fairly clear this morning. Feb: 543.5mm YTD: 1220mm Edit: A WZ forecast of 20-40mm for Sat and Sun so it could be a wetter weekend ahead. Edited by user Friday, 7 February 2025 10:34:03 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: ronfishes So apparently the army "Bridge" is only taking essential vehicles, cannot take heavy vehicles and can only do 2km/hr over it so low range basically. *Some proper heavy showers in Atherton today. Bloody ridiculous....the whole might of The Army and the resources of the whole of state and federal government of Australia and thats the best they could come up with for the only real road linking FNQ to the rest of the country... and its just about 20 ft or so of the bridge aproach that washed out..surely the could have just dumped a heap of rock in there and compacted it and then at least had both lanes moving again.. Far out I and probably most every farmer and anyone thats operated heavy equiptment have personally done more extensive earthworks then that with 50 year old tippers and machinary in a day or 2.... Geez if it was in China they would have just built a dual lane expressway and a new bridge around it in 3 days... 
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Completely agree Scott.
They must think the rest of the bridge is okay, since they're letting vehicles over it. Wouldn't be that hard to fill in and replace the approach.
I wouldn't be any more "nervous" driving over it than I am every time I drive over the Barron River bridge at Kuranda.
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