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Hi 28. It’s just a cylinder with a black hole at the top, the female mozzies think it’s water a try to land and get sucked in with a fan.
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Originally Posted by: Weary  Hi 28. It’s just a cylinder with a black hole at the top, the female mozzies think it’s water a try to land and get sucked in with a fan. Sounds interesting. Does it work?
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No idea 28. It’s their trap so I’m not playing with it. Hopefully I’ll see them when they come to service it.
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Originally Posted by: Weary No idea 28. It’s their trap so I’m not playing with it. Hopefully I’ll see them when they come to service it. Thanks Weary. Just curious about these things. At 6.30pm this afternoon we had 25mm in the gauge, and it's continued to rain on and off. What a luxury this weather is. Just had a friend from the Sunny Coast call me to see if I was okay in the floods. I told her we were truly grateful for everything we could get. :-))
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60.5mm this morning. Got under a red patch on the radar for a while. Very heavy rainfall, the place was awash. Had 3 or 4 house rattling lightning strikes as the rain approached. Exciting weather in White Rock yesterday.
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42mm this morning.
Still sprinkling on and off. Haven't seen much sunlight since Christmas, what a nice change.
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Good to be reading of all your falls out there 28 :)
RF & MTS: I think more storms make the coast down there than up here, steering pattens as
they come across the tablelands maybe.
Weary: be good to know if they find any sus mozzies, the breading program thing was said to
be working.
Not a real lot going on here, watching the grass grow, pulling my bore up after it stopped.
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Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip Good to be reading of all your falls out there 28 :) Thank you Bunyip. It's wonderful. Have to go to Cairns on Thursday. Looks like it might be clearing a bit. Had been wondering if I'd get past Pump Creek at Almaden. Our cop was washed off there last Friday. Surprised it could happen to him. We're hoping the incident will make TMR take notice. Stalling on the last 4km section of dirt as it will be a realignment, probably miss the village altogether, with a different creek crossing. Management of the roadworks said they could've sealed the current alignment for $1M while they had the equipment out there. Now it'll be a 15 year wait & be ten times the cost. Unless a few more people get washed over that causeway.
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Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip
Weary: be good to know if they find any sus mozzies, the breading program thing was said to
be working.
Cheers
They are trying to see if the Wolbachia bacteria is still in the anophelene mosquitoes, mainly Aiedes egypti. They are having trouble getting enough of the right mosquitoes. Don’t know if they will be successful around my place as the population seems to have switched from them to smaller, faster MUCH more persistent bastards,
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Quite bizzare situations with the rainfall at the moment with everything backwards it seems. We have dry as a desert Mareeba still up/near the very top of the leaderboard for our region on 530 or so mm for the month. Heavyweights daintree/bunyip and Tully are back in the 200-300mm range so far. Can Mareeba hold them off for the entire month of January?? If so I would think this would be some kind of record cant see this having happened before. I think the big hitters on the coast will reel them in by the end of the month but im already hearing talk by mates in mareeba of the golden gumboot headed west !!!!! |
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Originally Posted by: Weary faster MUCH more persistent bastards, Don't know whether ours are smaller, but they are certainly faster, and bluddy persistent. Originally Posted by: Gone tropo We have dry as a desert Mareeba still up/near the very top of the leaderboard for our region on 530 or so mm for the month. Looks like Chillagoe is giving Mareeba a run for its money - my monthly total to date is 573.0mm. It's rained every day & every night this month. It's rained continually since 27 December.
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Your right 28degrees, a little more than half a metre of rain in a little more than half a month. Not bad at all.
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Originally Posted by: 28degrees Originally Posted by: Weary faster MUCH more persistent bastards, Don't know whether ours are smaller, but they are certainly faster, and bluddy persistent. Originally Posted by: Gone tropo We have dry as a desert Mareeba still up/near the very top of the leaderboard for our region on 530 or so mm for the month. Looks like Chillagoe is giving Mareeba a run for its money - my monthly total to date is 573.0mm. It's rained every day & every night this month. It's rained continually since 27 December. 28 just looked it up Mareeba is actually at 569mm so you are neck and neck very interesting. We just had 30mm or so come through here and looks like bunyip woulda had a heap more than that go through the daintree on the radar so will see what totals we have in the morning. |
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Hi folks, well managed to get under one yesterday arvo and picked up 46mm woo hoo
I think when we swing to a SE flow later in the week our totals will push up, but it sure is a
funny season with the west getting a great start to the year.
Hopefully we get a repeat this arvo :)
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Good Morning Everyone It's still dumping down and I haven't made it out to the gauge yet. I used my cheapo zoom camera to take a pic and it looks like about 58mm, that was 20 minutes ago. I had planned to do my laundry today....LOL. Not sure that will happen. Unless we run out of blue blob and get sunshine for the rest of the day. Edit: at 8.40am - looks like we *might* get a cyclone out of that one https://www.vmgd.gov.vu/...test-vanuatu-group-chartAnother Edit: at 8.48 checked gauge..... 98mm That's about 40mm since I first posted this. Now 671mm for the month. Edited by user Wednesday, 18 January 2023 10:08:43 AM(UTC)
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25mm in the gauge here. Nice storm with lots of noise seemed to go through city to airport area yesterday. We were on the southern edge. Got some nice steady rain. It seems to be a bit of a lucky dip for afternoon storms in the westerly flow. Maybe today it will be a bit more widespread. Southeast wind will definitely help you there FNQ Bunyip. The deluge continues in Chillagoe 28degrees.
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Our creek is flooded. Drove to check the bridge out and it was raging. Friend pulled up and said they'd driven over it an hour previously. Musta been that last 40mm in 1.5 hours that did it. So that's a bit of excitement for Chillagoe. Edit: Tropical low near Vanuatu is getting a swirl up. JTWC have it noted as 91P. https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html?tropicalThe low off Townsville has a bit of a swirl up too, but not considered. Edited again: Thought we were at the end of that big blob, but it regenerated itself. Waiting for my washing to dry now, ha ha ha. At least I did a small load, and used only one rack. That will just fit inside under the fan if it doesn't dry. Edited by user Wednesday, 18 January 2023 12:20:12 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for the link 28...
I'll keep an eye on that...this year just has that "Cycloney" feel about it...
God i hope not though I really dont have the energy to deal with one at the moment and my place needs a fair bit of work to get prepared.....
geez I cant beleive Chilligoe has almost double the rainfall of us so far this year....the worlds gone mad..!
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Originally Posted by: scott123 Thanks for the link 28...
I'll keep an eye on that...this year just has that "Cycloney" feel about it...
God i hope not though I really dont have the energy to deal with one at the moment and my place needs a fair bit of work to get prepared.....
geez I cant beleive Chilligoe has almost double the rainfall of us so far this year....the worlds gone mad..! It's certainly strange, those of us West getting all the rain. I don't have the energy for a cyclone either. Although I guess I could just throw everything outside back into the container. I have it practically empty as I want to sell it, but can't find a tradie to put up a garden shed straight after it goes.
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Hi 28
The dengue guys arrived to check the trap and it certainly does work.
The mossies are trapped in a mesh bag so they stay alive.
I took a photo of the trap but Cant seem to paste it into the post
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