Hiya 28...nice to hear your report again...

The charts and forecasts are suggesting some monsoonal action for us starting next week...

Time to get my act together and get the spraying and mowing done before then...I'm feeling so lazy though and I'm really feeling the heat this year...

Another nice muggy day here, with no more rain yet. Overcast, with fires in the south-west which yesterday created the weirdest type of "fog" sort of effect, which moved across the landscape in front of the big hill, and further eastwards. Smell strange a mix of rain that hasn't happened with smoke.

LOL I have to wait til the middle of January to get my yard mowed...

Just another nice muggy warm day. 34 degrees inside. No idea what it is outside since my cheap Bunnings sender works but doesn't seem to be sending. Or maybe the reader isn't receiving. I have a you-beaut fancy weather station my family gave me - but I need to put a post in somewhere then try to assemble the complicated thing. (I've pulled it out of its box twice & put it back twice.)

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Nicely overcast this morning. A fresh 26°. Yesterday afternoon we had about 6 splatters on the windscreen about 5km from town...lol.

Is Cairns radar still dodgy? At approx 250km, just west of us, the blue/white stuff looks truncated.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas day.

178mm for us from around 3 am Christmas morning until 7 am, our other neighbour about 200mtrs away from us recorded 122 for the same period.

That is a good fall YS, very nice. :)

No big falls up here yet, I had to put the boat in on Christmas evening in the middle of a good down pour
and go to pick up the Mrs , cause the ferry shut @ 16:30.. Good thing for bilge pumps, lol
By the time we were on the run back up the river it had cleared to be a beautiful evening out on the river
and if the dog and I weren't soaked we would of stayed on the water a while.


Rains should start to reach you soon 28.


Cheers

Tipped out 50mm 15 minutes ago.

Woooeeee our own special thunderstorm.

Was like that here yesterday.

Overcast & dampish generally today, with 6mm early afternoon. Just started sprinkling again.

We haven't had weather like this in the entire ten years I've lived here. Nice change.

Yes, let's hope 2021 is an improvement. All the best to everyone.

Woke to light drizzle about 6.30am. now steady rain. So so nice for a change.

Not much point in the yearly total for Chillagoe. Most of it fell this month!

Rain started late, in January, with a few storm showers. I was away from 15th January to 16th February - completely missed the Wet...(they told me it rained). There were maybe 10-12 storm showers after I got home.

Mid-November had a fall of 1.5mm and a nice 10mm. We've had 10 days of rain in December. The rest feels like it's been mostly overcast, & often with sprinkles that don't register in the gauge. November-December total is 215mm.

The creek is running again, quite a shock to see moving water.

Desperately hoping my mower man will be back next week. This place goes from bare dead do-nothing-to-it grass for most of the year, to totally out of control, within a couple weeks.

And, The Road... Who know what it will be like when I go to town on Monday.

At least some of the worst slush parts have been sealed, but there's still 12.5km left. It's not as if it's a big spend at $9 million, comparatively speaking.

Wonder if marakai will re-emerge soon. Who else are we missing?

Wonder what 2021 will bring us. I'm exceptionally grateful to be living in this region, where the outside world can cease to exist if we want it to, mostly.

Have a great night tonight if you're partying.