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!

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

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"

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 wrote:

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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.

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 Out for a Duck, Craig? Cheers

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. 

    

Coromandel, NZ 16* very sunny and beautiful.

Friends back home near Ballarat tell me there has been a second 'round ' of flooding in the district & more rain on the way. They say the amount of rain & extent of flooding across central Victoria is unprecedented. However it is nothing compared to further north on the Murray, & up the eastern seaboard.

Heading toward our 5th wet season in the tropics it's hard not to see 'traditional' weather patterns as changing. There have been large falls in the north associated with the monsoon troughs & with cyclones, since we have been up here, but on the whole far more rain has fallen in places where it has been traditionally dry or drier, than the tropics.

We have been lucky to have been in the north, experiencing average to less than average wet season totals over the past four Wets. We wonder if we are wet season 'jinxes' with the heaviest falls being wherever we are not. When in the NW Kimberley we had a very low rainfall Wet, whilst over in the Daintree it was immense. When in the Daintree it was moderate but Broome copped a lot. Whilst out west of Mareeba it was a normal season, but not far south of us the photos of huge numbers of drowned cattle on stations was distressing. Up here on the Cape last year there were areas of high falls but they were not widespread & the highest falls very late in the season at the end of May & not monsoonal.

I do wonder whether rather than the rainfall down south being an aberration, we are seeing longer term changes where the term Wet Season will no longer be the province of the tropical top end, but instead of Australia more generally. 3 La Nina's in a row cannot help but make me wonder whether global warming/climate change is making La Nina the norm & that what we are seeing is only going to get worse.

I hope not.

But I know weather patterns have changed over the past 30 years, or at least I know that for where we lived - high up in the Strzelecki Ranges in Gippsland Vic. Our neighbour & his father before him had kept rainfall records stretching back 60 odd years. We kept them for the 2 decades + we were there. Annual rainfall totals varied between around 850mm up to around 1400mm with 1200mm to 1300mm being the norm. Those figures still remain similar but over the twenty plus years we were there the pattern of delivery changed. Instead of little & often it increasingly came in larger 'dumps' - not much good for a small farm where stock depended upon multiple small hilltop dams dependent upon run off to fill them. Stocking rates dropped as the weather pattern changed, halving over the time we lived there.

The tropics have evolved with the Wet, & generally flooding is an inconvenience more than a disaster, in part due to natural topography, in part to it being warmer & in part due to less population/& infrastructure.

Being cold, wet & having whole towns inundated as so many are dealing with in the south must be absolutely miserable & I feel for those affected. It is almost bizarre that those who live up here are looking forward to what is being forecast as a 'big' wet this coming season.

-- Edited by Cuppa on Tuesday 1st of November 2022 09:01:39 AM

Wow!

Bunbury West Australia, we have not had enough excess rain to complain about, when I see what is happening in the east

I can only say to my friends in the east, hang in there, as things will change, and keep yourself safe

soggy Sundays our new norm. Last week, 45mm in 25 minutes. This week 43mm in 2 hours 5.30am to 7.30am, then another 38mm 5pm till midnight.

Has anyone spotted the 'possible' cyclone forming up over land(inner Eastern Kimberley) around about this coming Friday morning ?
Plus, another possible cyclone could form around the eastern side of Carpentaria.
La Nina pattern is sending a crap load of the moist stuff down from the Tomor Sea - nothing unusual about that this time of year. What is a bit different and interesting is the 'potential' for a cyclone to form over The Kimberley....., at the present it's looks like it 'could' intensify and head West by South West, crossing the top of The Great Sandy Desert before finally crossing onto the Indian Ocean just below Broome. If it actually comes to pass, maybe they should Wrongway Willy or similar.
Check out BOMs 7 day Interactive maps.

-- Edited by Sandyfreckle on Tuesday 27th of December 2022 11:50:24 AM

Nuriootpa, north of Adelaide SA

11 am, starting to warm up, but a nice breeze

Last night was hot, with no breeze, so had to put the fans on

Steady rain has rolled in, quite humid, around 28 degrees.