Nice wood, obviously cut by Eddie ( Edward Woodwood)
A bit of a speech impediment there Craig......
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.
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 !!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Concerns for those impacted by the severe events.
-- Edited by watsea on Monday 28th of February 2022 11:31:59 PM
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.