Oh yes a lovely night of steady light rain, no need for the A/C :)

31mm here
Can see where I need to clean a few spots in the driveway, but will wait for the good heavy stuff later today
and get it all moving the right way.

Good having the new Greenvale radar up :)


Cheers

160mm this morning and a bit of a break in the rain, didn't get wet taking the dog for her run. :)

We had the pot belly going last night, Not really needed but just nice to sit and watch the rain with it burning.


No new warnings or major flooding anywhere, see what today brings.



Cheers.

Thats a nice drop Bunyip..and great to see some out in the west 28..tropo it sounds like you guys have missed out a bit this year..the next few months might likely change that for you..

We had around the 150mm mark down along the beach areas of Mission Beach but probably lucky to get 100mm out here in the foothills..

So quite a dud flood event given that Cirns had set up numerous sandbagging stations...

It sure has been lovely soaking rain though...I have been spending some time digging holes and planting areas that were previously detroyed by pigs and turkeys andthe ground has been been so hard and dry..

This will certainly soften it up a bit and water in what I have planted but as we all know once this low heads off to the SE we will be left with stinking hot still days for a while..

I dont even think I want to head out the reef in windless 36-37c weather and the trout will likely not be in bite mode as they were the same a week or so back.

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3120mm for the year for me, what did yall all get?

Bureau is moving at snails pace uploading all the sites for the year. Russel river 4997mm will be beaten by tully when tully sugar mill comes through.

I thought I had posted here, Must of hit close instead of post, ( do it all the time)

Ended up with 4425mm here, so just a bit above average.

Had 14mm yesterday arvo from a very welcome little storm so that gets us away for 2022.


Cheers

Happy NY,

Some thunder about today. Might go buy a rain gauge soon, hate not knowing how much we got.

Love a morning storm :)
Pity only got 4mm out of it.
Power back now after it went off around 04:30 :)

That reminds me Ron I've got a new Nylex here to put up, will do that today.


Cheers

We only got 4mm too.

Had an EWN text at 5.30pm.
Lightning started about 12.30am
Radar showed storm here, sort of, about 1.30am.
Momentary "rain" through dark morning, the last extremely faint sprinkle at 7am.
So...that was it. The usual missing us thing.

Lots of sheet lightning everywhere. No thunder.

Looks like Dimbulah and Tableland had it good.

Some massive temperatures today, cairns racecourse just hit 39.2. airport 38.3, innisfail aero 39.1 and south johnston 39.1 !!!!

Still waiting for the 2021 rainfall to come in the bureau works at sloth speed but tully came in at just under 5100mm and will be hard to beat, it would take something special from cape tribulation to take the title I dont think babinda can do it this year.

A low is expected to form on Saturday in the northern Coral Sea off the far north Queensland coast and initially move to the southeast away from the coast. The low is likely to develop on Sunday and turn to the west and approach Cape York Peninsula. The prospects to form into a tropical cyclone increase on Monday as the system near the coast, at this stage to the north of Cooktown before subsequently moving to the west southwest over land.

Likelihood of this system being a tropical cyclone in the Eastern Region on:
Saturday:Very Low
Sunday:Moderate
Monday:High