What's the weather like where you are?

Radar · Guru

RE: What's the weather like where you are?

Cupie · Guru

Continuous rain here on Brisbane Southside, but it was far worse up at Somerset Dam where we had set up our tenting camp for a week of trapping of Redclaw.

The sleeping module on the Gazebo failed at 1am & I had to relocate the sopping wet bed to the other sleeping module. Made a 'bed' from a dry tarpaulin for broken sleep until 3am when I was woken by water splashing onto my face.

The gazebo had pooled water in the roof until its weight broke the frame which sagged to below waist level just outside my door. Had to crawl out over the soaked floor. A knife through the roof fixed that!

Packed up in the rain after retrieving the traps (20 redclaw, so failed there too). Gazebo into the bin.

Turned out to be a good decision to leave. The rain has only increased since we left & I expect that the area would be cut off by now.

That was the last tenting outing for this 80 year old. Caravan only from now!

Gaylehere · Guru

Glad your home safe and sound Cupie. I am sorry I laughed at your tenting adventure.

At our place on the south side of Toowoomba we emptied 198.6 mls at 11.30am on Friday and another 110.4 mls at 11.30am this morning and it hasn't let up here either so will see what's in the gauge in the morning.

As usual parts of Toowoomba are flooding. A lot of work was done after January 2011 to minimize flooding but there is only so much that can be done. A lot of people cannot understand how we can flood up here on the top of the range, but we have two creeks running through the city from the south side and they meet just north of the CBD.

Disaster again down the bottom of the range with flood waters through Withcott and Grantham. I bet all those who took up the council offer, after 2011, of the land swap at Grantham to higher ground are glad they did. I lived down in Gatton during the 1974 floods and remember how the Lockyer Valley fills up with water.

Stay safe everyone. Cheers.

Radar · Guru

Boondall Qld. Second day of continual rain, 308mls of rain in the last 24hrs.

Total for the week 780mls, the old rain gauge is getting a workout.

Looks like it may go to a third day of continual rain.

We have lived up here in Brisbane since 1985, have never experienced continuous rain event before, yes we have had a few days of off and on rain but never continuous rain, Oh well my only complaint is we were going caravanning Monday, we will look at Wednesday.

Radar · Guru

Boondall. 427mls of rain for the last 24 hour period.

For the 3 days since Friday of continual rail a huge 1107mls of rain.

Will this entitled us to the Golden Gumboot Awards taking it away from Tully in Northern Queensland?

But we are ok.

Bobdown · Guru

Radar wrote:
Boondall. 427mls of rain for the last 24 hour period.
For the 3 days since Friday of continual rail a huge 1107mls of rain.
Will this entitled us to the Golden Gumboot Awards taking it away from Tully in Northern Queensland?
But we are ok.

Not being picky Radar, but 427 + 780 = 1207mls, don't want to leave yourself 4 inches short (100ml)......ha ha

Glad you are ok even though you sleep with Gumboots on.

Cheers Bob

Radar · Guru

Bobdown wrote:
Radar wrote:
Boondall. 427mls of rain for the last 24 hour period.
For the 3 days since Friday of continual rail a huge 1107mls of rain.
Will this entitled us to the Golden Gumboot Awards taking it away from Tully in Northern Queensland?
But we are ok.
Not being picky Radar, but 427 + 780 = 1207mls, don't want to leave yourself 4 inches short (100ml)......ha ha
Glad you are ok even though you sleep with Gumboots on.
Cheers Bob

My lovely accountant wife did not pick that up, oh yes she did, I was an 100mls out on a recount.

For the 7 days period the total was 1204mls.

PS. I should of edit my post. Thank.you.

watsea · Guru

As posters are indicating corrections, the units used to measure Rainfall are millimetres (mm) for depth, not millilitres (ml or mL) for volume. Sorry, to rain on the parade smile

Concerns for those impacted by the severe events.

-- Edited by watsea on Monday 28th of February 2022 11:31:59 PM

Radar · Guru

Boondall, Monday mostly sunny day with a late 6mm rain shower.

Was able to air our caravan as are getting ready to do a couple of weeks tour around the SE Qld which was good.

This morning beautiful blue sky.

Cuppa · Guru

Lockhart River, Cape York. Have had to add a thicker sheet to the bed in the past week or so and have started turning the ceiling fan off when getting up for a midnight wee. Early hours temps have dropped to the low 20's which is feeling rather chilly. Humidity has dropped making things far more comfortable. Think we can say that the Wet Season has ended.

slowboat · Member

8pm in Howard Springs NT a beautiful 28C sunny and 34C tomorrow.

Radar · Guru

Brisbane, mostly wet but tomorrow going to be better.

Dunmowin · Guru

Radar wrote:
Brisbane, mostly wet but tomorrow going to be better.

RADAR, is that better or wetter?

Warwick, today reached a chilly 13 degrees.

Oh Cuppa, you make me feel quite warm and fuzzy at early temps in the 20s

Radar · Guru

Dunmowin wrote:
Radar wrote:
Brisbane, mostly wet but tomorrow going to be better.
RADAR, is that better or wetter?

Warwick, today reached a chilly 13 degrees.

That is a couple of weeks back.

14 here today, peak at 19 but I was a little chilly, I wanted to go up in the caravan and give the diesel heater a work out but my lady said no.

Dunmowin · Guru

It is 6.50 am, I have to get up early today, but it is -2 degrees outside.

Craig1 · Guru

Wangaratta yesterday minus 4, that put a curl in someone's tail feathers I reckon, a loverly 0 here in Lavington

Cupie · Guru

Bloody cold in Brissy!!!

Forecast 10 to max 13 would you believe & drizzly rain.

First time ever, we put the A/C onto heat during the day & rugged up in 3 layers with ugg boots of course.

Paul · Veteran Member

Farm sitting outside Cambooya, wet, miserable and about 6 degrees.

Donh54 · Member

Ashley, just north west of Moree NSW. 8.2 degrees, feels like 4.2 @ 9.30 Saturday 9/7/22
Still waiting for the paddocks to dry out after the rain last week. Ground is soaked, and without good sun & wind it'll take a while to dry out!

Sheffield-er · Senior Member

Chilly at night but, if you can find a North-facing window to sit in in the daytime it's lovely. Been out pruning the roses for last few days but you need to rug up well - 3 layers on top and two pairs of slacks one over the top of the other. Electric blanket revved up to the max at night.

Power went off for 7 days after that cyclone blew through on 11 June (170 kph winds tore hundreds of trees down). 5.30 pm into bed with a hot water bottle and stay in bed till 10 am in the mornings. Was blocked from getting out of my drive way for 2 days because of a huge tree that came down in the farm across the road from me.

Gotta watch the icy roads early in the morning if you want to go down to Devonport - have only needed to go down there twice and left it to 11 am so the ice had time to melt.

Cheers to all.

Val biggrin biggrin biggrin

Sandyfreckle · Veteran Member

As daylight hours very slowly start to increase, we're having intermittent sunshine/showers during the day. I think we're probably getting enough rain over here in the SW corner, but of course we won't know until we look at the figures later, when the rain tapers off, around Sept/late Oct. It used to be that we could forget about any rain after late Nov/early Dec..., until around the 15th of May when big cold front storms spin up from Antarctica.
However, during cyclone season and longer, the North West corner(around Exmouth) they are more frequently getting low cells spinning down from the northern Indian Ocean(somewhere below Sumatra) and crossing near that N/W corner ...., occasionally forming into cyclones. These low cell rain events often dump a ship of rain from the coast all the way inland into the semi arid interior..., makes things very interesting up there.
On the South West corner here we are fortunate in that we don't get floods over here..., and a cold night hereabouts only gets down around 5 or 6 deg while I would consider that a cold day max temp would be around 15-17 deg(reasonably rare).
I reckon we're fairly privileged hereabouts...., no extremes of anything.

-- Edited by Sandyfreckle on Tuesday 12th of July 2022 09:28:45 AM

-- Edited by Sandyfreckle on Tuesday 12th of July 2022 09:36:34 AM

Cupie · Guru

Sheffield-er wrote:
Chilly at night but, if you can find a North-facing window to sit in in the daytime it's lovely. Been out pruning the roses for last few days but you need to rug up well - 3 layers on top and two pairs of slacks one over the top of the other. Electric blanket revved up to the max at night.

Power went off for 7 days after that cyclone blew through on 11 June (170 kph winds tore hundreds of trees down). 5.30 pm into bed with a hot water bottle and stay in bed till 10 am in the mornings. Was blocked from getting out of my drive way for 2 days because of a huge tree that came down in the farm across the road from me.

Gotta watch the icy roads early in the morning if you want to go down to Devonport - have only needed to go down there twice and left it to 11 am so the ice had time to melt.

Cheers to all.
Val

As a Queenslander, I find it hard to imagine living in such conditions. But I suppose you get used to it just as we do with our summer heat & humidity and the driving rain of warm tropical storms.

It was an unrealised dream of mine to retire to a remote property in Tassie, in an old stone cabin with a view down a grassy re-entrant to a wild southern ocean crashing onto a sandy beach. Perhaps it is better that it was just left at that .. a Dream.

At >80 years of age, I have walked on snow only once .. on a family visit (one day) to the Alps near Canberra. I have never seen snow falling!!!! I have visited snow fields in Europe & Northern America, but always when there was no snow on the ground!

Craig1 · Guru

We have two magpies who use our little bird bath for a splash most mornings, today at minus 2.9, they left a sign, " only fit for Torvill and Dean"

the rocket · Guru

Bright sunny day on the way. Yippy.

Sandyfreckle · Veteran Member

Here on the S/W corner we've just emerged from 3 full days of getting flogged by a strong storm cell. Actually it was 3 tightly packed lows bunched together in the Southern Ocean just below us. Wind gusts maxed at 137 - early Tuesday morning at Cape Leeuwin lighthouse. There were several other gusts around 90 to 100 kmh and the wind consistently stayed around 30 - 40 knots for the rest of those days. Lot's of Karri branches and Marri trees down, plus ship loads of rain. I'm very, very happy to see the end of that system !!!
The SE corner can have it now.

-- Edited by Sandyfreckle on Thursday 4th of August 2022 07:48:31 AM

Craig1 · Guru

Albury had over double Sept rainfall average at 136mm

October so far we have passed the average of 52mm already, so everything is wet wet wet. Even the ducks were paddling on the cricket pitch cover yesterday.

yobarr · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
Albury had over double Sept rainfall average at 136mm

October so far we have passed the average of 52mm already, so everything is wet wet wet. Even the ducks were paddling on the cricket pitch cover yesterday.

Out for a Duck, Craig? Cheers

Cupie · Guru

Nice day here in Brissy.

Some cloud but a fair bit of blue sky ... Nice breeze too.

I have just mowed the grass extra short as I pack the van for a trip down the coast of NSW.

Have I got rocks in my head or what? as we head towards the rain & flooding.

First stop Corindi Beach, then in the mud pool at Port Macquarie Breakwater. Not sure what happens after that but probably Narrabeen Lakes via an overnighter at Bulahdelah. A week or so at each major stop.

Undecided about trip home. That will depend on the weather. Might look at some low cost options on the way home ... a new adventure for us.

Cuppa · Guru

Was 26 deg.C overnight. Mainly blue sky with odd fluffy white cloud today, temperatures are beginning to rise & it feels like the humidity is too. 37 deg.C inland, but here in the coastal rainforest we have 32 deg.C . Same forecast every day for the next week.

Craig1 · Guru

We had 5 days (almost) without rain, but into it again yesterday arvo and again this afternoon. More water release from Hume Dam as well.

Our best wishes to those down stream at Echuca