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We are in the middle of the biggest storm we have had this year so far.

The rain is almost horizontal and coming down in buckets.

Thunder but no lightning yet.

Think the temperature dropped 10 degrees in a matter of minutes

It's heading north so look out Nowra and beyond.



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Just checked the rain gauge 5.40pm - 25mil in 15 minutes and it hasn't stopped yet, eased off a tad but you would get soaked very quickly if you are out in it AND its cooooooold



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if it's coming down in bucket's perhaps you could open a hardware store when it's over, selling all those bucket's



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BUCKETS.........BUCKETS.............BUCKETS............going cheap, open to offers......



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Gday...

I know how you feel ........

I'm in central inland QLD - Mitchell right now but from Charters Towers/Emerald/Roma etc for the past week or so I have been on the fringe of huge thunder/lightning storms - not lots of wind or rain - just HUGE light shows.

For the past 40 minutes, have been sitting in the van as it gets pummelled with little hail stones, lotz of rain but not much wind. Oh yeah - and the humidity is 110% - well it feels like it biggrin

Heading southward tomorrow ... but from looking at weather radar these storm bands which have been ranging from Channel Country, through northern NSW and Southern QLD through to SE QLD are pretty general each afternoon.

It is good standing in the rain though - cooling.

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Nothing like a good storm to clear the air is there



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Its been cold and windy down here all day. have just put my heating on to warm up a bit. Two days ago was sweatig in the heat with a 72 % humidity.
Crazy weather.

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rockylizard wrote:

Gday...

I know how you feel ........

I'm in central inland QLD - Mitchell right now but from Charters Towers/Emerald/Roma etc for the past week or so I have been on the fringe of huge thunder/lightning storms - not lots of wind or rain - just HUGE light shows.

For the past 40 minutes, have been sitting in the van as it gets pummelled with little hail stones, lotz of rain but not much wind. Oh yeah - and the humidity is 110% - well it feels like it biggrin

Heading southward tomorrow ... but from looking at weather radar these storm bands which have been ranging from Channel Country, through northern NSW and Southern QLD through to SE QLD are pretty general each afternoon.

It is good standing in the rain though - cooling.

Cheers

John

 Welcome to Qld, hail one day, storms the next!

By the way, I have lots of rellies in and around Mitchell. Last year the water was just lapping the  bridge...hard to imagine...I only saw photo's of it.



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You are not heading towards Biggenden are you John??

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You are not heading towards Biggenden are you John??

 Not if he's going south from Mitchell Marj.



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I thought he might be going SE Beth. or in that general direction. Nomads have a habit of detouring in any direction.

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Must have been a "Coast Special" Ma, all fine here in the ACT.

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Had a storm come through Grafton about an hour ago, lots of rain with some thunder and lightning but thankfully no hail, Rod

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good luck everyone with the weather. rocketnstrop



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Happywanderer wrote:

I thought he might be going SE Beth. or in that general direction. Nomads have a habit of detouring in any direction.

 Biggenden is actually NE of Mitchell, but I get your drift...we do tend to wander off in any direction. wink



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Just wondering if you could send some rain here... not so much the storms... or the hail... but the rain would be nice :)



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Happywanderer wrote:

You are not heading towards Biggenden are you John??

Gday...

No plans to head back into SE QLD but you never know. I need to pick up some letters in St George in the coming week so I will be there. Would like to camp at the Nindigully Pub - see what everyone else loves.

Then ..... who knows - don't want to get too far ahead of meself biggrinno

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Sounds like you are having a great trip John, all over the place.
Might be up there myself in a few weeks. Son could be needing some support he's not getting at the moment.

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Gday...

Well let me know when you head northward ... I will be probably in the vicinity of places near the Newell Hwy - Moree, Narrabri, Coonabarabran etc for weeks coming - will probably stay "middle NSW" for a while probably .... no plans but will slowly head southward.

We may eventually get to share a cuppa praps

Cheers

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And another beautiful day here in Perth, not a cloud in the sky........

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Okay, so now it's my turn...the line of storms in central and western Qld are headed my way. And pretty fast by the look of the www.bom.gov.au

Time to batten down the hatches!

 



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Hi, it is 9.45pm and it has just reached north Brisbane. hope you are ok.  rocket n strop



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We are at Jimboomba in SE Qld. the storms split just west of us and the worst of it passed to the south, we are just getting some soaking rain and a bit of noise

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Everything ok this morning Ma?

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Well it was certainly loud here in Loganholme. I was surprised we didn't lose power. I haven't been up the front yet, but there doesn't seem to be any damage.

 



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Everything ok this morning Ma?

 Yes, Gert, lovely day today, blue sky, gentle breeze around 21 degrees.

Total rainfall for the duration of the storm was 35mm according to the rain gauge.

Hope all you QLDers fared well in the storms up your way. Pretty spectacular light show I read on the news.



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I went ou to my daughters today...where my Nipper is stored...only to find her jockey wheel half buried in mud! S-i-l had levelled off a patch ground beside his shed especially for her to be tucked away, and the ground was still soft, so after the storm last night...mud all round her! doh



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This was a storm near Lismore NSW yesterday.



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goinsoon wrote:

We are at Jimboomba in SE Qld. the storms split just west of us and the worst of it passed to the south, we are just getting some soaking rain and a bit of noise

 That would be the fault of that "Flinders Peak".  We always found when we live there that the storms always split around that rock!

 

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You're right there Dunmowin. In another life I lived at Greenbank. We often missed rain for that reason.



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