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Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip Another glorious morning here :) Absolutely another glorious morning here -- after 24mm rain overnight.
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4mm overnight. Just a lunchtime shower again yesterday. That rainband looked good on the radar last night.
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Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip 115mm this morning, these arvo storms and showers are just lovely, proper wet season stuff.
GT , I thought you would of had more than 53mm, the yellow was on your side of the Dagmar and lots of rumbles from there around 18:20 yet here I was out with just spits after the stuff earlier around 17:00 that saw 75mm very quickly..
Another glorious morning here :)
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Bunyip your on the ball man, i have a feeling the radar was very inaccurate yesterday!!! I was watching that yellow band on the radar that looked just to the west of us only slightly, i was excpecting to see whyanbeel get numbers over 100mm this monrning as the blob appeared closer over them i was shocked to see whyanbeel creek record only 26mm and whyanbeel valley only 46mm yet i got 53mm most of which fell from maybe 9- midnight. Quite bizzarely just over the other side of the dagmar range stuart creek valley recorded a whopping 167mm !!! I dunno what was going on if that huge yellow blob on the radar which looked black as midnight over whyanbeel just didnt produce much rain? Is that possible i dont know but these last 24 hour numbers are all over the place when compared to what the radar showed. |
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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)
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That's a great looking spot Scott, and a bit of effort to make it better sounds like a win all round. Good stuff.
GT, Interesting that Stuart Creek got 167mm, Radar sure has it's days.. Knew someone was getting it with the black sky and the rumbling.
Light drizzle shower here now, has not stopped a neighbor from mowing but they are freaky weirdos anyway.
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Hey Scott, great work, the most important question is can you slide down the waterfall into the pool?
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Looks like hard work went into that Scott. Makes it a lot easier to get to the water. Must look impressive after heavy rain and a good flood there. The BOM have covered the bases with today's forecast for Cairns of 1-60mm. Edit at 1730: You never know, it's looking very dark and gloomy to the south and Southwest at the moment. Edited by user Wednesday, 17 January 2024 5:36:49 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Sheridan Mist it's looking very dark and gloomy to the south and Southwest at the moment 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.
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It's pouring down right now. The yellow bit on the radar. Love these overnight storms. The creek is up, and this will bring it up even more. Edit: Still pouring down over half an hour later. Edited by user Wednesday, 17 January 2024 9:28:24 PM(UTC)
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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.
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73 mm in the gauge this morning. Cairns airport (which is only about 2km a way in a straight line) only got 27.
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72mm last night.
It must have dumped down for about an hour solid.
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31mm here overnight. A nice bit of sunshine this morning. Lots of pretty colours to the west and north again last night on the radar.
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Thanks Weary, a good read. Just another way of confusing themselves I think.
Just had a good storm here, a bit of close lightning and about 30mm in half an hour.
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Mareebas turn now, copping 60mm in about 24 minutes |
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Look at that cell over Wangetti .. That might delay the road re opening .
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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. :)
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About 50mm here so far Bunyip. The rain has finally got heavy enough that we can't see Mt Sheridan. I think yellow on the new radar doesn't mean yellow any more. GFS is saying the could be cyclone isn't going to cross the coast at the moment. Edit: Heading to the cyclone graveyard it says. Edited by user Thursday, 18 January 2024 9:55:30 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip Oh how I miss the wZ days 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. Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip The potential cyclone next week seems to have people a bit flustered 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.jspJTWC have noted the low - Number 90P. https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html?tropicalOriginally Posted by: Sheridan Mist FS is saying the could be cyclone isn't going to cross the coast at the moment 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
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