General National Weather advice and information

[RM Outback]

:argh: unbelievable how one day it seems there's no end to oppressive heat and next thing you get to much rain. Worth your while to keep a record to look back in 20 years out of interest or show the next generation.

 

[Guest]

And not a Climate Change dooms dayer in sight when everything returns to a sense of normal.........like it always has and always does........eventually.

Big hot dry spell for the driest continent on Earth.

Love the rain, we waited, it came!!!

RS

 

[DrDuck]

80 ml in the rain gauge here in Goulburn, over 60 was yesterday arvo and overnight.

There has been plenty in the Shoalhaven catchment, so those crevices and a gravel bed I've been looking at will have to wait for another day.

 

[Ridge Runner]

Over here we got heavy rains and Flooding, We've had winds of 97mph / 156 kph,

 

[user 5263]

:argh: unbelievable how one day it seems there's no end to oppressive heat and next thing you get to much rain. Worth your while to keep a record to look back in 20 years out of interest or show the next generation.

Unless your already familiar with it here's a bit history and poetry, have a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan

 

[Chiron52]

Here's some pics from the recent heavy rain in Sydney.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Huge Rainfall figures for the Gold Coast In the past 7 days.. With a lot more to come...

Coolangatta = 589mm
Southport = 477mm

LW....

 

[Deepseeker]

Cripes, Half a Metre!

 

[Smoky bandit]

I'm so sick of rain.
I have to put the rodeo in 4x4 just to get to the front gate

 

[LONEWOLF]

I think its great... Fills all the dams, Creeks and Rivers, Burnt out areas are greening up nicely and a much needed top-up of the Artesian Basin...

A small inconvenience for Smokey tho...

LW....

 

[Heatho]

We got 400mm around here last weekend, I'm with Smokey, I'm over it at the moment too, be good if more went to the inland though.

Still lots of people on the Central Coast flooded in, cars just sitting there underwater, streets flooded, no power still for a lot of residents.

 

[Dihusky]

Just poured 270mm out of the gauge, that's in 36hrs. Having lived through drought on the farm, swore I would never curse rain, starting to push me now though

Good at home but more and more leaks in the building, started coming through the floor of basement 2 today saturated ground and high tides :awful:

 

[nucopia]

I panned out 3 twenty litre buckets of dirt from Nundle last week and left the empty buckets out side ..now they are full to overflowing from rain over the weekend ..

 

[LONEWOLF]

Gotta love the old buildings Dihusky, Ventilation Ducts would be waterfalls as well...

Does your Building have a 'sump' on the lower level?... This needs to be clean so the pumps will work... Many don't do that and at times of heave rain the pumps get clogged and the lower levels Flood... There are a few in Surfers I would never park my car in..

LW....

 

[sand surfer]

I would kill to get half a meter of rain in one day send it up here my dam is lonely it want's some company,water,guppies,toads frogs, ducks :lol: .Jokes aside, it is not nice to see people's homes and cars going under,hope everyone is safe :Y: I will have to sit back and wait for my turn,staying positive it will happen one day

 

[Dihusky]

Gotta love the old buildings Dihusky, Ventilation Ducts would be waterfalls as well...

Does your Building have a 'sump' on the lower level?... This needs to be clean so the pumps will work... Many don't do that and at times of heave rain the pumps get clogged and the lower levels Flood... There are a few in Surfers I would never park my car in..

LW....

Got to work this morning and discovered the building had the worst flooding in its 44 yrs, water was 4800ppm salt Gut feeling it's the new development next door that has stuffed up the water table Now we have to fix it as it WILL happen again

Pumps are good but one float switch failed :skull:

Pumping out tomorrow, so no Saturday relax

 

[RM Outback]

Something doesn't seem right about this figure, would have thought the rivers and creeks would have been running a banker.

Someone must have taken a leak in the gauge :argh: only one gauge showing in excess of 100mm

We've had good rain but nothing close to the above figures.

 

[Goldtarget]

Falls Creek got 180 odd for 48 hours. If that gauge was right there would be some nervous folk in those parts.

Im happy, I cant remember an Easter time wet like it around my parts. Certainly a stark contrast to last year. Got more on my boots after having five coffees and visiting the site toilet than fell from the sky last year.

Had to navigate flood waters leaving site today.

 

[RM Outback]

Well there won't be any more problems with the environmental flows nearly 800mm over two 24hr recordings for this week alone for Jingellic :lol: BS

 

[Jaros]

Great news for the gardeners and lawn mowing companies.