What's the weather like where you are?

Craig1 · Guru

What's the weather like where you are?

Bobdown · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
Got the meatie bite flavoured ice cubes ready for Eddie?

Nah, we are cool compared to Perth.

My Sister is having 23 people for Boxing day lunch...........44 degrees, when the first forecast came out, it was supposed to be high 20's.

Thousands of people have lost power as well, esky down at the beach weather, poor buggers.

-- Edited by Bobdown on Sunday 26th of December 2021 02:44:57 PM

SoloMC · Senior Member

At Kangaroo Is its around 14 with a feels like of 7.
bloody horrendous
its supposed to be summer so i suppose it will be 40 plus next week
its colder than tassie.
if i wasnt meeting relos here in a few days, id be gone

Cuppa · Guru

A cooler day than we have been accustomed to. 31.7 at present with 75% humidity.

Sun is shining , but going to get wet soon.

Caretaking Moreton Telegraph Station, Cape York.

The 'Low' off shore is forecast to become TC Tiffany & cross the Cape within the next couple of days. Forecast as to where it will cross has moved southward away from us.

Have been watching with interest as initially as much as 525mm accumulated rainfall in the Wenlock catchment was forecast. We have the boat tied up alongside the house.

However the forecast has now reduced that figure to a bit over 100mm if the Cyclone crosses further south (as in the path shown in this latest chart).

Neverthless we have been moving machinery to high(er) ground today just in case

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I feel like a piece of battered fish without the chips this morning as boy did we cop a battering last night. Torrential rain with thunder and lightning, damaging wind and even a couple of fires and road accidents, here in N E VIC. Here at base camp around the Wangaratta/Benalla area we even had a power outage for 6 hours. I am glad I have a 3 way fridge when things like that happen. The fridge in the teepee was changed to gas and the camp freezer under awning was on 12v anyway so all good in the fridge/freezer department. Luckily no damage to my aluminium teepee or Collie but the van a couple of sites away were not as lucky. Flooded in the annex and in van as well. All that in just 45mins.

Yep, a rough 45mins. From all reports all of VIC coped a battering.

Keep Safe out there all.

Craig1 · Guru

You beat me to it Chief, very similar here in Lavington, thunder lightning rain from all directions somehow, 47mm in less than an hour from 9.30pm. Just a brief blip of power out, but ABC TV out for 20 min or so, enough to lose the plot. 85% feewmidity this morning, worse than Qld from my memory.

Cupie · Guru

Don't want to skite, but .....

28 degrees here in Brissy at 1045am real time.

Blue sky with a few clouds & nice breeze.

A few light showers overnight.

Humidity OK too.

Craig1 · Guru

another floggin early hours of the morning, worse in the hills

Bobdown · Guru

Mount Barker WA.............41 degrees edit- 42.4 now

Very unusual for us down South, guess what I've been doing all week? Very ironic, but it will come in handy soon. smile smile

-- Edited by Bobdown on Saturday 5th of February 2022 04:34:31 PM

Craig1 · Guru

Nice wood, obviously cut by Eddie ( Edward Woodwood)

Bobdown · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
Nice wood, obviously cut by Eddie ( Edward Woodwood)

A bit of a speech impediment there Craig...... smile

Had a good week chain sawing and block splitting (arms are a bit longer now), and getting ready for the cooler months, then someone open the furnace door.

At least it will be nice and dry.

Craig1 · Guru

How much wood could a woodchuck cut?, if a woodchuck could cut wood?

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Is it summer ? Wearing a windbreaker down NSW south coast Culburra beach . Sun hasnt come out . Quite cold for this time of the year . Bro back in NZ is telling me they need rain and its hot !!

Radar · Guru

Boondall, a northern suburb of Brisbane 190 mls of rain from 6 am to 9.30 pm then another 182 mls to 6 am this morning.

A record of 372 mls of rain for us who have been living in Queeensland since 1985. We don't believe we have every had a day in Brisbane where the rain has continued no stop in a 24 hour period and I mean non stop. It is not damaging rain in Boondall with the excess water running down the large drainage system though our near by park into the huge wet lands which drains into bay.

Interesting times.

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.