82mm last night. That exceeds last years March total for the whole month!

bluegreen said:

trichome said: Temperature 23.6°C and again 29°C for today :) Dew Point 20.1°C Feels Like 23.6°C Relative Humidity 81% Wind N 14km/h falling Wind Gusts 20km/h Pressure 1012.0hPa rising Fire Danger 2.4 Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm good to hear you mob down there are getting a bit :) ahem! it’s Autumn!

yeah forgot about the 4 seasons thing :) we sort of get that here.

:)

bluegreen said:

82mm last night. That exceeds last years March total for the whole month!

Now that’s good rain.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

82mm last night. That exceeds last years March total for the whole month!

Now that’s good rain.

Not too good I hope.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

82mm last night. That exceeds last years March total for the whole month!

Now that’s good rain.

alright for me, not so sure about some of the lower lying properties though…

Not too good I hope.

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

trichome said: Temperature 23.6°C and again 29°C for today :) Dew Point 20.1°C Feels Like 23.6°C Relative Humidity 81% Wind N 14km/h falling Wind Gusts 20km/h Pressure 1012.0hPa rising Fire Danger 2.4 Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm good to hear you mob down there are getting a bit :) ahem! it’s Autumn!

yeah forgot about the 4 seasons thing :) we sort of get that here.

:)

The only thing that is really relevant about the northern hemisphere 4 season thing.. is the angle of the sun in relation to the earth or our position on it..

Perhaps the second thing would be in relation to the particular plants we are trying to grow.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

trichome said: Temperature 23.6°C and again 29°C for today :) Dew Point 20.1°C Feels Like 23.6°C Relative Humidity 81% Wind N 14km/h falling Wind Gusts 20km/h Pressure 1012.0hPa rising Fire Danger 2.4 Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm good to hear you mob down there are getting a bit :) ahem! it’s Autumn!

yeah forgot about the 4 seasons thing :) we sort of get that here.

:)

The only thing that is really relevant about the northern hemisphere 4 season thing.. is the angle of the sun in relation to the earth or our position on it..

Perhaps the second thing would be in relation to the particular plants we are trying to grow.

you up above the equator there rb ? down south they get the 4 seasons too :)

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

trichome said: Temperature 23.6°C and again 29°C for today :) Dew Point 20.1°C Feels Like 23.6°C Relative Humidity 81% Wind N 14km/h falling Wind Gusts 20km/h Pressure 1012.0hPa rising Fire Danger 2.4 Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm good to hear you mob down there are getting a bit :) ahem! it’s Autumn!

yeah forgot about the 4 seasons thing :) we sort of get that here.

:)

The only thing that is really relevant about the northern hemisphere 4 season thing.. is the angle of the sun in relation to the earth or our position on it..

Perhaps the second thing would be in relation to the particular plants we are trying to grow.

you up above the equator there rb ? down south they get the 4 seasons too :)

only because of the second line of roughy’s post

wet in Sydney… bit damp really. kinda like Townsville weather ‘cept its 10º cooler.

O’ercast in Sydders…. a day of miserable weather yesterday, but today could see a few light passing showers.

Much the same in lovely old Melbourne town..overcast and drizzly and with a brr factor. It might be time to break out the wool cardy aready.

Temperature 24.1°C, overcast, cool with a nice breeze, lookin’ at 25°C and maybe a few showers today :)
Dew Point 20.0°C
Feels Like 24.1°C
Relative Humidity 78%
Wind SE 46km/h falling
Wind Gusts 54km/h
Pressure 1016.8hPa rising
Fire Danger 5.6
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Glorious rain, thinking of the water bill savings lol, also as P said cold and wooly jumper weather for me !

We managed about 5mm rain in the last 24 hours. Last rain before that was 3 weeks ago (50mm in one dump). I dragged back the peastraw on one of the veggie plots and it was quite dry underneath. So I dug it over, dug in dynamic lifter (or local equivalent, more stinky!) and a couple of handfuls of lime and some compost, watered it, planted out some Brussels sprouts and relaid the peastraw. Maybe the next shower of rain – whenever that happens – will soak in a bit better.

more rain here.

141.9 mm in 24 hours.. wow. I can’t recall that since I’ve been reading weather for my locality. In fact it means that I have now exceeded my annual rainfall average in the one week.

roughbarked said:

141.9 mm in 24 hours.. wow. I can’t recall that since I’ve been reading weather for my locality. In fact it means that I have now exceeded my annual rainfall average in the one week.

let’s hope it is not 20 years between drinks this time.

o’ercast here in old Sydney Town… looks like the rain will stay away until after lunch.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

141.9 mm in 24 hours.. wow. I can’t recall that since I’ve been reading weather for my locality. In fact it means that I have now exceeded my annual rainfall average in the one week.

let’s hope it is not 20 years between drinks this time.

I hope so too.

painmaster said:

o’ercast here in old Sydney Town… looks like the rain will stay away until after lunch.

Hope it stays away enough for you to enjoy being in the big smoke.

roughbarked said:

141.9 mm in 24 hours.. wow. I can’t recall that since I’ve been reading weather for my locality. In fact it means that I have now exceeded my annual rainfall average in the one week.

WOW! Any flooding in your area? I’ve had another 53 mm in the last couple of days which brings the rain for the last week up to 210 mm. That’s about a third of the year’s average in one week.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

141.9 mm in 24 hours.. wow. I can’t recall that since I’ve been reading weather for my locality. In fact it means that I have now exceeded my annual rainfall average in the one week.

WOW! Any flooding in your area? I’ve had another 53 mm in the last couple of days which brings the rain for the last week up to 210 mm. That’s about a third of the year’s average in one week.

Haven’t been out for a look yet but the rain came steady rather than in downpours.. I just checked varios buckets that were sitting out.. the one that couldn’t overflow had 9 inches in it from the last 24 hours. The one that could overflow or splash out had 8.5 inches.. the wheelbarrow which definitely did overflow measured 7.7 inches.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

141.9 mm in 24 hours.. wow. I can’t recall that since I’ve been reading weather for my locality. In fact it means that I have now exceeded my annual rainfall average in the one week.

WOW! Any flooding in your area? I’ve had another 53 mm in the last couple of days which brings the rain for the last week up to 210 mm. That’s about a third of the year’s average in one week.

Haven’t been out for a look yet but the rain came steady rather than in downpours.. I just checked varios buckets that were sitting out.. the one that couldn’t overflow had 9 inches in it from the last 24 hours. The one that could overflow or splash out had 8.5 inches.. the wheelbarrow which definitely did overflow measured 7.7 inches.

That’s so cool :D

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

WOW! Any flooding in your area? I’ve had another 53 mm in the last couple of days which brings the rain for the last week up to 210 mm. That’s about a third of the year’s average in one week.

Haven’t been out for a look yet but the rain came steady rather than in downpours.. I just checked varios buckets that were sitting out.. the one that couldn’t overflow had 9 inches in it from the last 24 hours. The one that could overflow or splash out had 8.5 inches.. the wheelbarrow which definitely did overflow measured 7.7 inches.

That’s so cool :D

and I counted seven species of mushrooms popping up at my side gate

Our BoM weather warning. We’re getting used to it now.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20032.txt

We’re in the middle of it again. The weather I mean. It’s been raining all night and still going. We have recorded 4 inches so far. Further north of us have had up to 12 inches so we are still looking good at this stage.

Flooding is happening all around and no sign of this depression moving till tomorrow.

looks like the rain is gone in my area for now although some areas are in flood watch still as the rivers and creeks are still rising. taking advantage of the sunshine and got the washing out on the line. the grass has grown and greened up overnight it seems. Nothing like some rain to bring things along.

An extract from the Bureaus severe weather warning.

The low may possibly develop into a weak tropical cyclone if it moves offshore.
However, expected impacts over land are not likely to worsen. A separate
Tropical Cyclone Warning will be issued if necessary.

There is some consolation in that warning but I’m not sure what it is. Maybe it’s that it already feels like a cyclone so it can’t get much worse.

Over 6 inches now. Still raining.

pomolo said:

Over 6 inches now. Still raining.

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

Over 6 inches now. Still raining.

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

heh.. I had nine inches in one day.. and that was after a week of an inch per day and a day with three inches. Well, we were praying for it for 20 years.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

Over 6 inches now. Still raining.

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

heh.. I had nine inches in one day.. and that was after a week of an inch per day and a day with three inches. Well, we were praying for it for 20 years.

That’s fantastic RB :)

I’m not going to pray for rain then, I’ll just keep quiet LOL

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

heh.. I had nine inches in one day.. and that was after a week of an inch per day and a day with three inches. Well, we were praying for it for 20 years.

photos are being uploaded on my flickr. I went t work this morning and drove around four road closed signs..The nuresery was under a foot of water so I went dwarfing citrus for a neighbour. by lunch time when I went to drive out of his farm I said to him.. that water up the end of the paddock wasn’t there this morning.
He said, no and it is moving fast too. He shot off with a shovel thinking it could be fixable.. hah.. before we got back to the shed. the 50 acres was full of water. so it has been a week without paying work and looks like at least another.

That’s fantastic RB :)

I’m not going to pray for rain then, I’ll just keep quiet LOL

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed. Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

after luunch

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

Over 6 inches now. Still raining.

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

heh.. I had nine inches in one day.. and that was after a week of an inch per day and a day with three inches. Well, we were praying for it for 20 years.

so harking back to your question of what would I do if it didn’t rain for 20 years, I would like to ask you Roughy, what would you do if it rained 1 or 2 inches every day for 23 days straight or in one year it rained 28 inches in one night?

quite a few districts anxiously watching water levels atm.

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

heh.. I had nine inches in one day.. and that was after a week of an inch per day and a day with three inches. Well, we were praying for it for 20 years.

so harking back to your question of what would I do if it didn’t rain for 20 years, I would like to ask you Roughy, what would you do if it rained 1 or 2 inches every day for 23 days straight or in one year it rained 28 inches in one night?

no way we could cope with it mate.. the land is to flat, the soils too old dense and fine frained. nine inches of water in one day may soak in at some spots run away iat others but it will still be nine inches of water heading for the lowest spots.. where it may sit for quite a long time.. 30 cm in a week here is a flood for months. 28 inches in a day and we would have to leave for a year.

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

heh.. I had nine inches in one day.. and that was after a week of an inch per day and a day with three inches. Well, we were praying for it for 20 years.

so harking back to your question of what would I do if it didn’t rain for 20 years, I would like to ask you Roughy, what would you do if it rained 1 or 2 inches every day for 23 days straight or in one year it rained 28 inches in one night?

no way we could cope with it mate.. the land is to flat, the soils too old dense and fine frained. nine inches of water in one day may soak in at some spots run away iat others but it will still be nine inches of water heading for the lowest spots.. where it may sit for quite a long time.. 30 cm in a week here is a flood for months. 28 inches in a day and we would have to leave for a year.

I will admit that drainage up here is one thing. I was impressed by how much water you have still sitting around in your lunch time photos.

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

so harking back to your question of what would I do if it didn’t rain for 20 years, I would like to ask you Roughy, what would you do if it rained 1 or 2 inches every day for 23 days straight or in one year it rained 28 inches in one night?

no way we could cope with it mate.. the land is to flat, the soils too old dense and fine frained. nine inches of water in one day may soak in at some spots run away iat others but it will still be nine inches of water heading for the lowest spots.. where it may sit for quite a long time.. 30 cm in a week here is a flood for months. 28 inches in a day and we would have to leave for a year.

I will admit that drainage up here is one thing. I was impressed by how much water you have still sitting around in your lunch time photos.

This is water that wasn’t there when I arrived in the morning, I deliberately arrived late because I wanted the dew to be drying off before I started infecting trees with dwarfing virus.. Water came in across the road and through the fence and just got big big bigger all afternoon from just about lunchtime on.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~flowing across the flatlands. Filling them up into that inland sea that the first explorers reported.

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

no way we could cope with it mate.. the land is to flat, the soils too old dense and fine frained. nine inches of water in one day may soak in at some spots run away iat others but it will still be nine inches of water heading for the lowest spots.. where it may sit for quite a long time.. 30 cm in a week here is a flood for months. 28 inches in a day and we would have to leave for a year.

I will admit that drainage up here is one thing. I was impressed by how much water you have still sitting around in your lunch time photos.

This is water that wasn’t there when I arrived in the morning, I deliberately arrived late because I wanted the dew to be drying off before I started infecting trees with dwarfing virus.. Water came in across the road and through the fence and just got big big bigger all afternoon from just about lunchtime on.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~flowing across the flatlands. Filling them up into that inland sea that the first explorers reported.

THis road only had whayt looked like a small puddle on it as I turned off to enter the farm and drive down to a place adjacent to the dry spot you can see at the back of the picture, where the road turns at a right angle. I am in the process of dwarfing 4,000 blood oranges. Lucky I started down the other end.. because this is what flowed into the farm while I was there and is continuing to flow still. I managed to get a few rows done.

oops.. this road had what only looked like a small puddle..

>>i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)<<

More a case of be careful what you wish for, I reckon.

:)

buffy said:

>>i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)<<

More a case of be careful what you wish for, I reckon.

:)

Place where I work looks like a dustbowl most of my life but when the rains fall for long enough you see how the ephemeral creeks run.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

Over 6 inches now. Still raining.

i remember when you mentioned no rain, well, certainly getting it now, ask and you recieve :)

It seems we tend to get either too much or too little. That has been going on since time began I reckon.

Rain has eased here.

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed.
Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

I don’t think I understand your weather.

pomolo said:

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed.
Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

I don’t think I understand your weather.

OK.. it isn’t that hard.. we get 300+ sunny days per year.. most of them are extreme UV days.
dry enough to drive means you aren’t going to get bogged or make a mess.
As a youngster I was told by my dad.. Got to get fire wood wood before Anzac day or go cold all winter. What he meant was .. plan early or you’ll be bogged all winter after having gone out to get some firewood.

We simply only get wet winters but they only come in dribs and drabs. It is 50 years since we last had this kind of rain event.. in any month of the year. but it is usually between March and May sometimes stretching between March and March.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed.
Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

I don’t think I understand your weather.

OK.. it isn’t that hard.. we get 300+ sunny days per year.. most of them are extreme UV days.
dry enough to drive means you aren’t going to get bogged or make a mess.
As a youngster I was told by my dad.. Got to get fire wood wood before Anzac day or go cold all winter. What he meant was .. plan early or you’ll be bogged all winter after having gone out to get some firewood.

We simply only get wet winters but they only come in dribs and drabs. It is 50 years since we last had this kind of rain event.. in any month of the year. but it is usually between March and May sometimes stretching between March and March.

I meant how you can have a fine sunny day but the water flows in over your flat land as shown in your photos. It isn’t just your area it’s the way the waters cover the outback in sheets even though there hasn’t been any rain in the area. I know it happens but it just doesn’t compute with me. It just comes from living close to the sub-tropical coast all my life I guess.

Rain seems to be nearly gone but the sun still eludes us. Probably just as well because it would be steamy and more humid.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed.
Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

I don’t think I understand your weather.

OK.. it isn’t that hard.. we get 300+ sunny days per year.. most of them are extreme UV days.
dry enough to drive means you aren’t going to get bogged or make a mess.
As a youngster I was told by my dad.. Got to get fire wood wood before Anzac day or go cold all winter. What he meant was .. plan early or you’ll be bogged all winter after having gone out to get some firewood.

We simply only get wet winters but they only come in dribs and drabs. It is 50 years since we last had this kind of rain event.. in any month of the year. but it is usually between March and May sometimes stretching between March and March.

I meant how you can have a fine sunny day but the water flows in over your flat land as shown in your photos. It isn’t just your area it’s the way the waters cover the outback in sheets even though there hasn’t been any rain in the area. I know it happens but it just doesn’t compute with me. It just comes from living close to the sub-tropical coast all my life I guess.

I remember when at school listening to the teacher drone on about something but observing all the while, the way the falling rain created the whole river system from fast flowing to meander to billabong and eventually, delta.. all within a few metres outside the classroom window… Whack! teacher who happened to be the school principal cuffed me under the ears.. His other method was a closed fist with one knuckle protruding.. applied with force to the temple. Ephemeral creeks may not be visible until they fill with water. they may be as wide as the biggest rivers but be as shallow as a matchbox but once they start moving, the whole world slides sideways.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

OK.. it isn’t that hard.. we get 300+ sunny days per year.. most of them are extreme UV days.
dry enough to drive means you aren’t going to get bogged or make a mess.
As a youngster I was told by my dad.. Got to get fire wood wood before Anzac day or go cold all winter. What he meant was .. plan early or you’ll be bogged all winter after having gone out to get some firewood.

We simply only get wet winters but they only come in dribs and drabs. It is 50 years since we last had this kind of rain event.. in any month of the year. but it is usually between March and May sometimes stretching between March and March.

I meant how you can have a fine sunny day but the water flows in over your flat land as shown in your photos. It isn’t just your area it’s the way the waters cover the outback in sheets even though there hasn’t been any rain in the area. I know it happens but it just doesn’t compute with me. It just comes from living close to the sub-tropical coast all my life I guess.

I remember when at school listening to the teacher drone on about something but observing all the while, the way the falling rain created the whole river system from fast flowing to meander to billabong and eventually, delta.. all within a few metres outside the classroom window… Whack! teacher who happened to be the school principal cuffed me under the ears.. His other method was a closed fist with one knuckle protruding.. applied with force to the temple. Ephemeral creeks may not be visible until they fill with water. they may be as wide as the biggest rivers but be as shallow as a matchbox but once they start moving, the whole world slides sideways.

That teacher, a Marist brother was one of the local clergy that the boss who gave me a job sucked up to.. I had to do freebies for anyone who wore a cassock or habit.. Do you think I liked it? No wonder I did not listen to such teachers.. they caused me to go deaf.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

OK.. it isn’t that hard.. we get 300+ sunny days per year.. most of them are extreme UV days.
dry enough to drive means you aren’t going to get bogged or make a mess.
As a youngster I was told by my dad.. Got to get fire wood wood before Anzac day or go cold all winter. What he meant was .. plan early or you’ll be bogged all winter after having gone out to get some firewood.

We simply only get wet winters but they only come in dribs and drabs. It is 50 years since we last had this kind of rain event.. in any month of the year. but it is usually between March and May sometimes stretching between March and March.

I meant how you can have a fine sunny day but the water flows in over your flat land as shown in your photos. It isn’t just your area it’s the way the waters cover the outback in sheets even though there hasn’t been any rain in the area. I know it happens but it just doesn’t compute with me. It just comes from living close to the sub-tropical coast all my life I guess.

I remember when at school listening to the teacher drone on about something but observing all the while, the way the falling rain created the whole river system from fast flowing to meander to billabong and eventually, delta.. all within a few metres outside the classroom window… Whack! teacher who happened to be the school principal cuffed me under the ears.. His other method was a closed fist with one knuckle protruding.. applied with force to the temple. Ephemeral creeks may not be visible until they fill with water. they may be as wide as the biggest rivers but be as shallow as a matchbox but once they start moving, the whole world slides sideways.

We have many ephemeral creeks here. I was surprised to see such dry areas when I first arrived. Mind you, if you head a little further north, there are some serious rivers.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

I meant how you can have a fine sunny day but the water flows in over your flat land as shown in your photos. It isn’t just your area it’s the way the waters cover the outback in sheets even though there hasn’t been any rain in the area. I know it happens but it just doesn’t compute with me. It just comes from living close to the sub-tropical coast all my life I guess.

I remember when at school listening to the teacher drone on about something but observing all the while, the way the falling rain created the whole river system from fast flowing to meander to billabong and eventually, delta.. all within a few metres outside the classroom window… Whack! teacher who happened to be the school principal cuffed me under the ears.. His other method was a closed fist with one knuckle protruding.. applied with force to the temple. Ephemeral creeks may not be visible until they fill with water. they may be as wide as the biggest rivers but be as shallow as a matchbox but once they start moving, the whole world slides sideways.

That teacher, a Marist brother was one of the local clergy that the boss who gave me a job sucked up to.. I had to do freebies for anyone who wore a cassock or habit.. Do you think I liked it? No wonder I did not listen to such teachers.. they caused me to go deaf.

Thank goodness a lot of that cruelty has been stamped out now. You have my sympathy as far as the deafness goes. I suffer from it too but mine is inherited.

Very little rain today. Actually got to have a walk around the yard this afternoon. Weeds are doing well.

pomolo said:

Very little rain today. Actually got to have a walk around the yard this afternoon. Weeds are doing well.

not mine, gave them a drink of roundy-up.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Very little rain today. Actually got to have a walk around the yard this afternoon. Weeds are doing well.

not mine, gave them a drink of roundy-up.

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Very little rain today. Actually got to have a walk around the yard this afternoon. Weeds are doing well.

not mine, gave them a drink of roundy-up.

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

not mine, gave them a drink of roundy-up.

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

looks like I am on enforced holidays for at least another couple of weeks. Boss has two huge pumps going but the water is still flowing in. I had two other jobs but they are both in the middle of the same big puddle.

By that I mean, unpaid holidays.

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

looks like I am on enforced holidays for at least another couple of weeks. Boss has two huge pumps going but the water is still flowing in. I had two other jobs but they are both in the middle of the same big puddle.

that is a lovely photo, that certainly tells a story.

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

looks like I am on enforced holidays for at least another couple of weeks. Boss has two huge pumps going but the water is still flowing in. I had two other jobs but they are both in the middle of the same big puddle.

that is a lovely photo, that certainly tells a story.

Nice photo, agreed.
So the riverless flood flows on to where..or just evaporates over time?

roughbarked said:

By that I mean, unpaid holidays.

I hope it recedes quickly.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

By that I mean, unpaid holidays.

I hope it recedes quickly.

just got a phone call from one farmer.. the part of the farm he wants me to do citrus dwarfing on.. is dry enough to work on.. but we have to go around through floodwaters to get there. he nursery I normally work on now has three pumps going.

Where does the water go?

well there are natural depressions known as black box depressions(due to Eucalyptus largiflorens being the dominant tree in such spots) There are also natural watercourses which all drain into the confluence of rivers.

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/video-footage-of-mirrool-creek-and-yenda/2478595.aspx

Damn dialup means that I can’t watch these videos.. would love a youtube link so I can download them and watch at home.

perhaps this will do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFSxEaw6Rxc

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

By that I mean, unpaid holidays.

I hope it recedes quickly.

just got a phone call from one farmer.. the part of the farm he wants me to do citrus dwarfing on.. is dry enough to work on.. but we have to go around through floodwaters to get there. he nursery I normally work on now has three pumps going.

Where does the water go?

well there are natural depressions known as black box depressions(due to Eucalyptus largiflorens being the dominant tree in such spots) There are also natural watercourses which all drain into the confluence of rivers.

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/video-footage-of-mirrool-creek-and-yenda/2478595.aspx

Damn dialup means that I can’t watch these videos.. would love a youtube link so I can download them and watch at home.

That’s a lot of water flowing away.
Do you have a small dam to keep some, or room for one?

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I hope it recedes quickly.

just got a phone call from one farmer.. the part of the farm he wants me to do citrus dwarfing on.. is dry enough to work on.. but we have to go around through floodwaters to get there. he nursery I normally work on now has three pumps going.

Where does the water go?

well there are natural depressions known as black box depressions(due to Eucalyptus largiflorens being the dominant tree in such spots) There are also natural watercourses which all drain into the confluence of rivers.

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/video-footage-of-mirrool-creek-and-yenda/2478595.aspx

Damn dialup means that I can’t watch these videos.. would love a youtube link so I can download them and watch at home.

That’s a lot of water flowing away.
Do you have a small dam to keep some, or room for one?

Unfortunately, no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIFzua0WF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFSxEaw6Rxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRMg7NeEz-Q

Griffith – Yenda floods

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

not mine, gave them a drink of roundy-up.

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

I hope it’s not that long. Your wet season can’t be over yet shirley?

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

looks like I am on enforced holidays for at least another couple of weeks. Boss has two huge pumps going but the water is still flowing in. I had two other jobs but they are both in the middle of the same big puddle.

Lovely shot but no doubt it is hard to work around.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

By that I mean, unpaid holidays.

I hope it recedes quickly.

just got a phone call from one farmer.. the part of the farm he wants me to do citrus dwarfing on.. is dry enough to work on.. but we have to go around through floodwaters to get there. he nursery I normally work on now has three pumps going.

Where does the water go?

well there are natural depressions known as black box depressions(due to Eucalyptus largiflorens being the dominant tree in such spots) There are also natural watercourses which all drain into the confluence of rivers.

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/video-footage-of-mirrool-creek-and-yenda/2478595.aspx

Damn dialup means that I can’t watch these videos.. would love a youtube link so I can download them and watch at home.

There is a lot of water there.

roughbarked said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIFzua0WF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFSxEaw6Rxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRMg7NeEz-Q

Griffith – Yenda floods

Still more water.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIFzua0WF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFSxEaw6Rxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRMg7NeEz-Q

Griffith – Yenda floods

Still more water.

it is just the beginning.

Mirrool Creek is a much underestimated and under studied component of the MDB floodplain.

Happy Potter said:

Much the same in lovely old Melbourne town..overcast and drizzly and with a brr factor. It might be time to break out the wool cardy aready.

And by contrast – Perth is having a week of 30+, culminating in 39 on Sunday, and hopefully after that, we can finally kiss summer goodbye for the year!

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Mine will get some of that too if we can ever be assured that there are no more showers to fall.

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

I hope it’s not that long. Your wet season can’t be over yet shirley?

Probably not and stop calling me….

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Dry Season up here…. won’t see rain until December I reckon’

I hope it’s not that long. Your wet season can’t be over yet shirley?

Probably not and stop calling me….

oh and there’s good rain out there now.

pomolo said:

We’re in the middle of it again. The weather I mean. It’s been raining all night and still going. We have recorded 4 inches so far. Further north of us have had up to 12 inches so we are still looking good at this stage.

Flooding is happening all around and no sign of this depression moving till tomorrow.

Don’t float away Pom.

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

pain master said:

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

two recordings of rainfall over 150mm have been recorded less than 10kms from my 8.5mm.

roughbarked said:

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed. Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

after luunch

Is that your place? Considering what you do all day you don’t believe in trees much do ya?

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

I remember when at school listening to the teacher drone on about something but observing all the while, the way the falling rain created the whole river system from fast flowing to meander to billabong and eventually, delta.. all within a few metres outside the classroom window… Whack! teacher who happened to be the school principal cuffed me under the ears.. His other method was a closed fist with one knuckle protruding.. applied with force to the temple. Ephemeral creeks may not be visible until they fill with water. they may be as wide as the biggest rivers but be as shallow as a matchbox but once they start moving, the whole world slides sideways.

That teacher, a Marist brother was one of the local clergy that the boss who gave me a job sucked up to.. I had to do freebies for anyone who wore a cassock or habit.. Do you think I liked it? No wonder I did not listen to such teachers.. they caused me to go deaf.

Thank goodness a lot of that cruelty has been stamped out now. You have my sympathy as far as the deafness goes. I suffer from it too but mine is inherited.

Mine is selective.

pain master said:

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

The weather’s funny like that. I can be having a nice sunny day and someone three or four suburbs over is having their roof lifted off and their house flooded in a severe thunderstorm. The night 6m of my fence blew down and it rained non stop, my dad’s place 25 minutes away didn’t get a drop.

hortfurball said:

roughbarked said:

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed. Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

after luunch

Is that your place? Considering what you do all day you don’t believe in trees much do ya?

Not my place. The first purchaser of this farm sat that house there. Then he sold out. The new owners have done nothing with the house up to this point.

hortfurball said:

pain master said:

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

The weather’s funny like that. I can be having a nice sunny day and someone three or four suburbs over is having their roof lifted off and their house flooded in a severe thunderstorm. The night 6m of my fence blew down and it rained non stop, my dad’s place 25 minutes away didn’t get a drop.

True.. I’ve often observered weather happening nearby without my hair even being ruffled.

roughbarked said:

hortfurball said:

pain master said:

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

The weather’s funny like that. I can be having a nice sunny day and someone three or four suburbs over is having their roof lifted off and their house flooded in a severe thunderstorm. The night 6m of my fence blew down and it rained non stop, my dad’s place 25 minutes away didn’t get a drop.

True.. I’ve often observered weather happening nearby without my hair even being ruffled.

True True. 50kms north of Townsville is the Pub of Rollingstone, this is where the wet tropics start and where Livio will say each night “Fine and Dry for Townsville tomorrow with rain areas north of Rollingstone”. I have sat at the Pub watching it rain on the other side of the road while applying sun screen, a large brimmed hat and UV rated sunglasses…

pain master said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

I hope it’s not that long. Your wet season can’t be over yet shirley?

Probably not and stop calling me….

oh and there’s good rain out there now.

I told ya shirley.

hortfurball said:

pomolo said:

We’re in the middle of it again. The weather I mean. It’s been raining all night and still going. We have recorded 4 inches so far. Further north of us have had up to 12 inches so we are still looking good at this stage.

Flooding is happening all around and no sign of this depression moving till tomorrow.

Don’t float away Pom.

We didn’t.

pain master said:

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

I sounds familiar.

roughbarked said:

hortfurball said:

roughbarked said:

In the morning today this was dry, the weather was sunny, the storms had passed. Well, moist but dry enough to drive into the farm for work
by lunch

after luunch

Is that your place? Considering what you do all day you don’t believe in trees much do ya?

Not my place. The first purchaser of this farm sat that house there. Then he sold out. The new owners have done nothing with the house up to this point.

it is so crying for a verandah and some garden!

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pain master said:

Probably not and stop calling me….

oh and there’s good rain out there now.

I told ya shirley.

we ended just short of 40mm and now the garden is good and wet. Glad I sprayed a few days ago and cut the grass.

Temperature 20.6°C heading for 26°C today. Partly cloudy. Isolated showers until late afternoon. Light winds.
Dew Point 14.9°C
Feels Like 20.6°C
Relative Humidity 70%
Wind SW 16km/h falling
Wind Gusts 24km/h
Pressure 1011.8hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.3
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

I would like to report that the Pomolrosa has a beautiful clear sunny day. The first for ages. Lawns to be mowed and weeds to be stunned. Shrubs to be trimmed. A lovely day ahead fo us.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

How’s this? I have recorded 8.5mm this evening. The BOM weather station 6kms away has recorded 118mm.

I sounds familiar.

The night that our rain guage overflowed at 160mm, friends 20minutes away got nothing.

pomolo said:

The night that our rain guage overflowed at 160mm.

I had a night like that Sat/Sun. Topped by the fact that I’d measured a minimum of 25 mm every other day that week.

pomolo said:

hortfurball said:

pomolo said:

We’re in the middle of it again. The weather I mean. It’s been raining all night and still going. We have recorded 4 inches so far. Further north of us have had up to 12 inches so we are still looking good at this stage.

Flooding is happening all around and no sign of this depression moving till tomorrow.

Don’t float away Pom.

We didn’t.

Good to know.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

hortfurball said:

Is that your place? Considering what you do all day you don’t believe in trees much do ya?

Not my place. The first purchaser of this farm sat that house there. Then he sold out. The new owners have done nothing with the house up to this point.

it is so crying for a verandah and some garden!

That’s kinda what I was hinting ;) Well perhaps the new owners will eventually get around to making it look more lived in and loved, rather than a steaming hot storage facility. Funny, but it still looks hot even surrounded by all that water.

pomolo said:

I would like to report that the Pomolrosa has a beautiful clear sunny day. The first for ages. Lawns to be mowed and weeds to be stunned. Shrubs to be trimmed. A lovely day ahead fo us.

Nice!

hortfurball said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Not my place. The first purchaser of this farm sat that house there. Then he sold out. The new owners have done nothing with the house up to this point.

it is so crying for a verandah and some garden!

That’s kinda what I was hinting ;) Well perhaps the new owners will eventually get around to making it look more lived in and loved, rather than a steaming hot storage facility. Funny, but it still looks hot even surrounded by all that water.

That’s because it normally is hot. Luckily, since the rain the temps haven’t got over 25ºC At this time of year we are often still getting 40ºC. A house like this will also be the coldest box you could ever imagine during winter. All that fibro will be asbestos anyway.
I’ll ask him tomorrow what he is going to do with the house. As far as I’ve observed the house has just sat there the same as the day it was moved there. Nobody lives in it. This guy is at least 30 and still living with his parents. I was told that they spent $6 mill on developing the blood orange orchards.

What happened to Autumn? We got plunged into Winter this morning. 12c when I got up. Livio didn’t warn us either. Even the dog was trying to get under the doona.

pomolo said:

What happened to Autumn? We got plunged into Winter this morning. 12c when I got up. Livio didn’t warn us either. Even the dog was trying to get under the doona.

we is still trying to resurrect a failed wet season. Talk of the Monsoon Trough returning to us end of the week.

Just gone past 18inches for the year.

pomolo said:

What happened to Autumn? We got plunged into Winter this morning. 12c when I got up. Livio didn’t warn us either. Even the dog was trying to get under the doona.

still lovely Autumn weather here :)

pain master said:

pomolo said:

What happened to Autumn? We got plunged into Winter this morning. 12c when I got up. Livio didn’t warn us either. Even the dog was trying to get under the doona.

we is still trying to resurrect a failed wet season. Talk of the Monsoon Trough returning to us end of the week.

Just gone past 18inches for the year.

The area we have just visited has had 26inches of rain in the last 2 weeks. All the water has gone now but you see where it been.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

What happened to Autumn? We got plunged into Winter this morning. 12c when I got up. Livio didn’t warn us either. Even the dog was trying to get under the doona.

still lovely Autumn weather here :)

But 12c is probably good to you anyway BG. You would have loved it here this morning but not now because it’s crept up to 33.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

What happened to Autumn? We got plunged into Winter this morning. 12c when I got up. Livio didn’t warn us either. Even the dog was trying to get under the doona.

still lovely Autumn weather here :)

But 12c is probably good to you anyway BG. You would have loved it here this morning but not now because it’s crept up to 33.

24.7 here at the mo :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

still lovely Autumn weather here :)

But 12c is probably good to you anyway BG. You would have loved it here this morning but not now because it’s crept up to 33.

24.7 here at the mo :)

31ºC here. Big storm clods coming but they’re being halted 50kms north of Town at Rollingstone.

pain master said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

But 12c is probably good to you anyway BG. You would have loved it here this morning but not now because it’s crept up to 33.

24.7 here at the mo :)

31ºC here. Big storm clods coming but they’re being halted 50kms north of Town at Rollingstone.

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

trichome said:

24.7 here at the mo :)

31ºC here. Big storm clods coming but they’re being halted 50kms north of Town at Rollingstone.

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

It’s in the lap of the gods isn’t it?

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

31ºC here. Big storm clods coming but they’re being halted 50kms north of Town at Rollingstone.

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

It’s in the lap of the gods isn’t it?

The week ahead

Maximum 26°C 27°C 30°C 31°C 31°C 28°C 25°C

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

It’s in the lap of the gods isn’t it?

The week ahead

Maximum 26°C 27°C 30°C 31°C 31°C 28°C 25°C

Basically a million bucks down the drain.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

It’s in the lap of the gods isn’t it?

The week ahead

Maximum 26°C 27°C 30°C 31°C 31°C 28°C 25°C

Maybe and then maybe not.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

It’s in the lap of the gods isn’t it?

The week ahead

Maximum 26°C 27°C 30°C 31°C 31°C 28°C 25°C

Basically a million bucks down the drain.

Plus wages.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

It’s in the lap of the gods isn’t it?

The week ahead

Maximum 26°C 27°C 30°C 31°C 31°C 28°C 25°C

here Max 31ºC 30ºC 31ºC 30ºC 29ºC

Sun is out. Sky is clear but showers predicted.

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

trichome said:

24.7 here at the mo :)

31ºC here. Big storm clods coming but they’re being halted 50kms north of Town at Rollingstone.

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

From one extreme to the other…

hortfurball said:

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

31ºC here. Big storm clods coming but they’re being halted 50kms north of Town at Rollingstone.

26ºC here at the moment but will be back to the 30’s by Tuesdat which is not at all a good omen since we have 100,000 grafted trees on peach rootstock that have been sitting in water that was up to half a metre deep. I finally managed to drain it to as best it will ever get today by shovelling 80 rows of mud out to get the last of the water off. However if the max temperature gets above 25ºC and stays there.. The whole lot will likely die in a couple of days. This is after having pumped water out for over a week.

From one extreme to the other…

indeed so. we’ll all be rooned said Hanrahan

ovely drop of rain happening, no need to water the garden :)

Our forecast for 20 to 40 mm of rain over the next few days is down to 5 to 10 mm expected. Pfft. I’m watering as usual.

trichome said:

ovely drop of rain happening, no need to water the garden :)

We’ve had a 17mm drop here.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

ovely drop of rain happening, no need to water the garden :)

We’ve had a 17mm drop here.

just had a 32mm drop here, all at once or so it seemed!

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

ovely drop of rain happening, no need to water the garden :)

We’ve had a 17mm drop here.

just had a 32mm drop here, all at once or so it seemed!

funny that. I stopped work because a couple of sprinkles fell. When grafting trees you don’t want rain falling. Got home and it pored for a short time.

the local weather? zero rainfall… my weather.. 26 mm who’s complaining?

It’s a bit wild and wooly here, lightening and wind and light rain bursts.

Wonder what inside mischief I can get up to today..

March in my rain chart is looking impressive…

!!

Happy Potter said:

It’s a bit wild and wooly here, lightening and wind and light rain bursts.

Wonder what inside mischief I can get up to today..

No doubt you’ll find something.

bluegreen said:

March in my rain chart is looking impressive…

!!

It sure is.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

March in my rain chart is looking impressive…

!!

It sure is.

well, your rain chart is just impressive.

2.5 inches o’ernight brings the year to date to 22 inches.

3 mm here

Temperature 22.1°C and looking for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 22.1°C
Relative Humidity 84%
Wind SSW 12km/h rising
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1014.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.0mm / 0.0mm

596.4mm rain so far this year, that is about 23.5 inches

pain master said:

2.5 inches o’ernight brings the year to date to 22 inches.

So the wet wasn’t over at all. LOL. According to Livio it’s our turn next. Boy O boy! We need it like a hole in the head.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

2.5 inches o’ernight brings the year to date to 22 inches.

So the wet wasn’t over at all. LOL. According to Livio it’s our turn next. Boy O boy! We need it like a hole in the head.

pm’d have to go a little further north for real golden gumboot country, where they measure the rainfall in metres ;)

trichome said:

Temperature 22.1°C and looking for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 22.1°C
Relative Humidity 84%
Wind SSW 12km/h rising
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1014.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.0mm / 0.0mm

596.4mm rain so far this year, that is about 23.5 inches

Not to be out done, I will go and tot mine up in a minute.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

2.5 inches o’ernight brings the year to date to 22 inches.

So the wet wasn’t over at all. LOL. According to Livio it’s our turn next. Boy O boy! We need it like a hole in the head.

pm’d have to go a little further north for real golden gumboot country, where they measure the rainfall in metres ;)

I agree. T’ville is a fairly dry place, usually.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

March in my rain chart is looking impressive…

!!

It sure is.

well, your rain chart is just impressive.

thanks :D

more rain since I went to bed last night, 30mm and counting…

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

So the wet wasn’t over at all. LOL. According to Livio it’s our turn next. Boy O boy! We need it like a hole in the head.

pm’d have to go a little further north for real golden gumboot country, where they measure the rainfall in metres ;)

I agree. T’ville is a fairly dry place, usually.

I was reading a magazine article about a Passionfruit farm at Bellenden Ker below the mountain and they get about 11mts of rain eah year. It’s a wonder that mountain isn’t washed away.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

It sure is.

well, your rain chart is just impressive.

thanks :D

more rain since I went to bed last night, 30mm and counting…

Gee! You’ll be in competition with the tropics soon.

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pm’d have to go a little further north for real golden gumboot country, where they measure the rainfall in metres ;)

I agree. T’ville is a fairly dry place, usually.

I was reading a magazine article about a Passionfruit farm at Bellenden Ker below the mountain and they get about 11mts of rain eah year. It’s a wonder that mountain isn’t washed away.

Bellenden Ker next door to serious croc country there :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

I agree. T’ville is a fairly dry place, usually.

I was reading a magazine article about a Passionfruit farm at Bellenden Ker below the mountain and they get about 11mts of rain eah year. It’s a wonder that mountain isn’t washed away.

Bellenden Ker next door to serious croc country there :)

True but they don’t eat passionfruit.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

I agree. T’ville is a fairly dry place, usually.

I was reading a magazine article about a Passionfruit farm at Bellenden Ker below the mountain and they get about 11mts of rain eah year. It’s a wonder that mountain isn’t washed away.

Bellenden Ker next door to serious croc country there :)

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

well, your rain chart is just impressive.

thanks :D

more rain since I went to bed last night, 30mm and counting…

Gee! You’ll be in competition with the tropics soon.

197mm for the month so far, 338mm for the year

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

thanks :D

more rain since I went to bed last night, 30mm and counting…

Gee! You’ll be in competition with the tropics soon.

197mm for the month so far, 338mm for the year

not bad at all :)

trichome said:

Temperature 22.1°C and looking for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 22.1°C
Relative Humidity 84%
Wind SSW 12km/h rising
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1014.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.0mm / 0.0mm

596.4mm rain so far this year, that is about 23.5 inches

Well we beat you by heaps. We’ve got 791mm on the chart and that’s without the excess overflow in the guage that happened overnight, a couple of weeks back. The word aroud the area is that there would have been another 2 inches on top of that reading so we are well ahead of you but we will never know for sure by how much.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

Temperature 22.1°C and looking for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 22.1°C
Relative Humidity 84%
Wind SSW 12km/h rising
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1014.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.0mm / 0.0mm

596.4mm rain so far this year, that is about 23.5 inches

Well we beat you by heaps. We’ve got 791mm on the chart and that’s without the excess overflow in the guage that happened overnight, a couple of weeks back. The word aroud the area is that there would have been another 2 inches on top of that reading so we are well ahead of you but we will never know for sure by how much.

nearly a metre, good stuff, i would expect your district to have more than us :)

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

thanks :D

more rain since I went to bed last night, 30mm and counting…

Gee! You’ll be in competition with the tropics soon.

197mm for the month so far, 338mm for the year

told you. You’re almost tropical.

Is it reminiscent of years ago? That’s what they are all saying up this way. That the old weather cycle is returning.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Gee! You’ll be in competition with the tropics soon.

197mm for the month so far, 338mm for the year

told you. You’re almost tropical.

Is it reminiscent of years ago? That’s what they are all saying up this way. That the old weather cycle is returning.

yes i agree it is returning

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Gee! You’ll be in competition with the tropics soon.

197mm for the month so far, 338mm for the year

told you. You’re almost tropical.

Is it reminiscent of years ago? That’s what they are all saying up this way. That the old weather cycle is returning.

I can’t say for this area as I haven’t been around for long enough, but IMO this sort of rain is to be expected after an extended drought, and yes, a return of weather cycles from before the drought.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

197mm for the month so far, 338mm for the year

told you. You’re almost tropical.

Is it reminiscent of years ago? That’s what they are all saying up this way. That the old weather cycle is returning.

yes i agree it is returning

A lovely thought. I will cling on to that.

I can watch planes landing at the airport but the rainfall readings are almost always different over the few Km between my place and the airport. However, because I’m too lazy to write it all down on the one chart, I have to go by the official records taken at the airport. Jan-Mar 2012 291.6mm
Mar 2012 189.0mm 6 day(s) wettest day 133.2mm 4th.

I am aware that I received more rain on almost every one of those days apart from the first of the 6 day falls. The weather was so patchy that I observed records from locations that were no more than 5 km apart on the same day. eg: here I counted 26 mm while the airport had 36 mm, a resident further along the hill from the airport had 50 mm and southside of town recorded 90 mm

rainfalls can vary quite a lot between Benalla and here, or even here and Lima which is the adjoining district. The other day when I got 32mm the mechanic in Winton barely made 2mm. He said he was driving home from Benalla in pouring rain which ended just as he turned into his driveway.

bluegreen said:

rainfalls can vary quite a lot between Benalla and here, or even here and Lima which is the adjoining district. The other day when I got 32mm the mechanic in Winton barely made 2mm. He said he was driving home from Benalla in pouring rain which ended just as he turned into his driveway.

Same. Here half the town can be nearly under water and the other half barely wet. I’m in the ‘gets most wet’ part.

Today for example BOM says the airport has had 10 mm while my rain gauge reads 15 mm so far. The other day I drove home and barely got inside before rain pelted down heavily for at least 15 minutes. Nobody else I talked to the next day had any rain..

roughbarked said:

Today for example BOM says the airport has had 10 mm while my rain gauge reads 15 mm so far. The other day I drove home and barely got inside before rain pelted down heavily for at least 15 minutes. Nobody else I talked to the next day had any rain..

An update on that, the BOM report now reads 21 mm yet my gauge has spilled over and has approx 27 mm in it.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Today for example BOM says the airport has had 10 mm while my rain gauge reads 15 mm so far. The other day I drove home and barely got inside before rain pelted down heavily for at least 15 minutes. Nobody else I talked to the next day had any rain..

An update on that, the BOM report now reads 21 mm yet my gauge has spilled over and has approx 27 mm in it.

I’m up to 44mm. Getting gaps in the rain now.

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pm’d have to go a little further north for real golden gumboot country, where they measure the rainfall in metres ;)

I agree. T’ville is a fairly dry place, usually.

I was reading a magazine article about a Passionfruit farm at Bellenden Ker below the mountain and they get about 11mts of rain eah year. It’s a wonder that mountain isn’t washed away.

Bellenden Ker can get around 11m a year, but on average, it is only around 4-6m….

pomolo said:

trichome said:

Temperature 22.1°C and looking for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 22.1°C
Relative Humidity 84%
Wind SSW 12km/h rising
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1014.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.0mm / 0.0mm

596.4mm rain so far this year, that is about 23.5 inches

Well we beat you by heaps. We’ve got 791mm on the chart and that’s without the excess overflow in the guage that happened overnight, a couple of weeks back. The word aroud the area is that there would have been another 2 inches on top of that reading so we are well ahead of you but we will never know for sure by how much.

Ive had another 50mm today which brings me to 600mm. Not as much as you Pomolo, but my workplace went past the 800mm mark this afternoon. Oh and it is pissing down still. They are predicting 200-300mm this weekend with maybe it to ease on Wednesday.

120mm in the past 24 hours. 650mm for the year to date.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

Temperature 22.1°C and looking for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 22.1°C
Relative Humidity 84%
Wind SSW 12km/h rising
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1014.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.0mm / 0.0mm

596.4mm rain so far this year, that is about 23.5 inches

Well we beat you by heaps. We’ve got 791mm on the chart and that’s without the excess overflow in the guage that happened overnight, a couple of weeks back. The word aroud the area is that there would have been another 2 inches on top of that reading so we are well ahead of you but we will never know for sure by how much.

Ive had another 50mm today which brings me to 600mm. Not as much as you Pomolo, but my workplace went past the 800mm mark this afternoon. Oh and it is pissing down still. They are predicting 200-300mm this weekend with maybe it to ease on Wednesday.

We have woken to a very dull, cloud cover, morning. Lots of your leftover rain is headed our way. thanks PM.

pain master said:

120mm in the past 24 hours. 650mm for the year to date.

You’re doing well.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

120mm in the past 24 hours. 650mm for the year to date.

You’re doing well.

they might do even better over the coming days

weather map

trichome said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

120mm in the past 24 hours. 650mm for the year to date.

You’re doing well.

they might do even better over the coming days

weather map

Get out your water wings PM.

Very average day here today. Light showers on and off. Just enough to be a pest. Minor flooding on the coast. Nobody needs any more rain here, for a week or 3. Rain expected to continue till next Sunday at least. Time to hibernate.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

You’re doing well.

they might do even better over the coming days

weather map

Get out your water wings PM.

looks like we might get a cyclone too in the next 48 hours or so… Just what we need when the soil is saturated, a bit of wind.

well that was just some of the heaviest rain I have heard for some time now…

Temperature 21.8°C heading for 25°C today
Dew Point 19.9°C
Feels Like 21.8°C
Relative Humidity 89%
Wind SSW 44km/h rising
Wind Gusts 59km/h
Pressure 1015.3hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.4
Rain since 9am/last hr 10.8mm / 0.0mm

Pom would be getting more rain too at the moment

pain master said:

well that was just some of the heaviest rain I have heard for some time now…

Still raining here too. Not heavy though but it’s rained all night.

trichome said:

Temperature 21.8°C heading for 25°C today
Dew Point 19.9°C
Feels Like 21.8°C
Relative Humidity 89%
Wind SSW 44km/h rising
Wind Gusts 59km/h
Pressure 1015.3hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.4
Rain since 9am/last hr 10.8mm / 0.0mm

Pom would be getting more rain too at the moment

Sure are. Sure have and sure to be more.

PM how many mls did you end up getting over the weekend?? I keep telling MRD we might get wet feet this year and he keeps burrying his head !!! I better go to the news channel and see how the flood is progressing, last time I listened it had hit Hay.

We go through a day without rain today. Got some mowing done and I managed to prune a few things. Stars are out tonight

Had a black out earlier in the evening for no account reason. The town is still out but we’re on a different line

daff said:

PM how many mls did you end up getting over the weekend?? I keep telling MRD we might get wet feet this year and he keeps burrying his head !!! I better go to the news channel and see how the flood is progressing, last time I listened it had hit Hay.

Since this rain event started, I’m pretty sure we have had around 360mm since Wednesday afternoon. Having said that, you can add around 70mm since 6am yesterday and I have just been woken by the rain again, and while it is too wet and too dark to go check the Nylex, the BOM suggests we have had another 70mm since 9pm.

I would be hesistant to say it, but I think all up in the past 6 days we are getting close to half a metre. I will confirm that tomorrow morn.

pain master said:

daff said:

PM how many mls did you end up getting over the weekend?? I keep telling MRD we might get wet feet this year and he keeps burrying his head !!! I better go to the news channel and see how the flood is progressing, last time I listened it had hit Hay.

Since this rain event started, I’m pretty sure we have had around 360mm since Wednesday afternoon. Having said that, you can add around 70mm since 6am yesterday and I have just been woken by the rain again, and while it is too wet and too dark to go check the Nylex, the BOM suggests we have had another 70mm since 9pm.

I would be hesistant to say it, but I think all up in the past 6 days we are getting close to half a metre. I will confirm that tomorrow morn.

199mm for the past 24 hours. My shed is now underwater. :( Have not seen water this high in the garden before.

523.5mm for this rain event. And I am in the dry part of town.

Annual rainfall now 978mm

We have rain again this morning but the sun glow is visible so maybe it won’t be raining all day. We hope!