A category 5 cyclone is something i never want to experience I can’t fathom how intense that would be copping the eye of it.

Yeh like Scott says there are plenty of places that have racked up big 24 hour totals I think the record for Australia is actually somewhere is southern qld from memory. Port Douglas can get big falls but it’s the yearly average that’s sorts the lightweights out from the heavyweights.

Kinda like at the moment is a good example if you look at the Mackay/proserpine region they had the big event in January of almost 1000mm in some areas over a few days, currently they are still in front of the mighty Tully sugar mill, one might look at that and think damn Mackay could have a wetter year than Tully. That ain’t going to happen Tully will reel them in by the end of the year 100%

Same as last year with all the big floods in Lismore etc they had massive rain once in a lifetime but over the year they still didn’t match our heavyweights up here in the daintree and Babinda.

Like I mentioned the only place that can mix it with the heavyweights here is a few areas on the west coast of tassie mainly around lake Margaret dam or lake Gordon dam that averages 3500mm if we had an ocean exceptionally dry year up here and they had a very wet year our heavyweights could well loose the golden gumboot in a rare event.

There is a good website if I can find it think it was from cyclone chasers as to why cairns misses the big rain compared to cassowary coast and up here and yep it’s to do with the angle of the coast line and lack of high mountains to the immediate west. Babinda and bellenden ker have 1600m high mountains creating huge up lift, daintree has Thornton’s peak plateau just under 1400m same as whyanbeel/bamboo we have the carbine tableand plateau at just under 1400m to west of us and Tully has 1200m high ranges to its west