213mm in the last 24hrs in Port Douglas/Cairns

It's definitely not the start of the wet season Browney, though it feels like it.
The monsoon trough is still in the Northern Hemisphere.
This is being caused by a high pressure system & a ridge ( as quoted by the met bureau)
Things could be worse than being on holidays & having to put up with rain.
Talking to a mate today. He's a cane farmer & lost 50% of this years crop because of the last wet season.
He ploughed out a heap of stand over cane this year because of water damage & replanted. That is all underwater today & will now die.
He was looking at a good watermelon crop this year. He layed 5 km of drip irrigation & planted it out. It was looking like his biggest crop yet until the river covered it last night.
160 tonne watermelon crop worth $160,000 gone.
He also had just finished fertilizing.
That's 40 or $50,000 worth of fertilizer washed away as well.
Hammered 2 years in a row.
Who'd be a farmer?

290mm in 11 hrs for me up here near Malanda - Oh to be a duck :-)

Cheers Tony

And a radio report said the CREB track was closed.
Well duuhh!
But then some people need to be told these things.

sitting at punsand bay on the cape, not a drop of rain here, just very windy and very very dusty, I think the cape season is over as only 2 campers here and 1 at loyalty beach