How Crazy is the Weather Where you Live?

Hi Stephen.Almost the same on the NSW South Coast with a tad more rain than you today. I was hoping to head out to Temora,Junee next month so I hope it calms down really soon. Cheers,Bob.

Hi Stephen, Up here (Lorella Springs NT) it is supposed to be the wet session but had no rain since Xmas day, although it has been overcast for a couple of days this week but still no rain. The days are mild 34 deg and the night are around 26 deg with a slight breeze. All the creeks have stopped running and are bone dry, execpt for the springs.

In SW Victoria we have had no rain at all.

Numerous times in the last few weeks it has tried hard and we got a few drops but that is all.
The last good down pour we had to go to Adelaide to see.

Mrs S

54 mm in Winkie since 9.00 am today

We are on the Darling downs Qld. Had the air on this arvo and watered the lawn this evening.
Sharon

G/Day Stephen, Its the same everywhere,...funny thing nature, ..it certainley has control on what us poor mortals want or dislike...lol.


Cheers Axle.

Hi Stephen,

What is the prognosis for the Cooper Creek ferry seeing some more action this year?

How are you Stephen? Yep it's raining here in Melbourne and our plans for a couple of weeks hence may be up for review. Not feeling too confident about the speed trials at Lake Gairdner on the 19th of March and hoping like mad that the rain cut across to the north of Mt Ive Station although they would probably welcome it. Just have to wait and see and develop plan B which at this stage is to hope for dry and windy weather so that plan A comes off! Cheers, Leigh

Yep its sure crazy weather in SA,I'm in North Haven(SA) and not stopped raining since 7 am. Sure hope Birdsville track open by may as we are heading up to the Simpson.

Hi Stephen,
More than 50mm in the rain gauge here at Quorn and still raining most of the local roads are still open but who knows what will happen over night.
If this is what they call global warming it feels pretty cool to me.
Good to meet you the other day.

Cheers
Graham

G'day Stephen, We've had 60mm at around 6.30 tonight and is still light rain. Upper Berri always gets more than Lower Winkie. Will make it tough on the growers who still have grapes to pick.
The weekend was hot here and now it's fairly cool. Might need a blanket tonight.

Just a touch damp in the Hill Stephen, even the Barrier Highway was closed yesterday at Cockburn.
We had 70 mm yesterday 7 am - 7 am this morning and 16 mm up until about 4.30 pm and it has rained pretty steady since about 6.30 tonight.
All unsealed roads are closed and rain forecast until Sunday with storms tomorrow.
So those stuck at Packsaddle and Tibooburra will have time for a few drinks.

cheers

Dave

You're all a bunch of Chicken Littles.:shakes head:
If it was simple and sane we wouldnt have meteorologists to tell us we are in for a rough ride,farmer's income would be the same year in year out,bricklayers would never get wet and the washing would never get blown off the clothesline.

Sit down,take a bex and it will all sort itself out.

Another 28mm since 9 yesterday east of Captains Flat NSW. All tanks are full, dams overflowing and the cattle are not impressed. Fire going as its 12.4 outside.

I know we have a short summer here at 1050m but not this short. Love it.

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I like reading the forum to remind me of home and travelling around the outback. I have been following the recent wet weather but at the moment it is 7.30am in Brisbane it is just 4.30 in the afternoon in New Jersey. It has been snowing since 11am this morning and this is the view out my window. I promised to BBQ some pork chops for dinner and I had to scrape the snow of it to heat it before I could even start cooking.

I wonder if it is related to this:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120227111052.htm

Pretty standard weather in Winton, Stephen, at the moment.

Temps to 36 today, with moderate humidity, and some cloud. Possible shower forecast too. Had about 20mm rain on Sunday/Monday, while we were in Cairns.

Did a rushed trip to Cairns on sunday, with daughters extra "stuff", and came back tuesday. Showers and storms at times as we neared the coast, and on Monday night, it really p*ssed down, all night, in Cairns. Other than a soggy lawn, you wouldn't have known it had rained in the morning. Only a bit of water over the Bruce H'way, in one section, near Ingham.

Not sure I'd like your 12 deg, Stephen. Bit early in the year for a cardigan, or two!!!

Bob.

Hi Stephen,

I realise this weather is no good for the vintage, but I have to admit I do enjoy the misty rain and cooler weather.

Checked the gauge this morning, 38mm out here, good top up for our tanks but thats it.

Having spent many years picking grapes in mid 40s temps, and loading bins, and throwing out buckets, spreading out currents and sultanas on drying racks, or hand shaking them off, raking out sultanas on hessian and countless hours on the hot dusty tractor etc.

All in the heat, or working on overheating vehicles in a hot uninsulated sheds etc, I dont miss it.

I can recall several times when large areas of moisture have been carried down southwards and hit during harvest decimating all the crop through skin burst then mould for what was left, lost all our currents one night with rain.

Can also remember several times in Feb when its been cold enough to wear jeans and a jumper too.
Usually the rule is for the return of school to be scorching hot, but there are years where we do have mild summers, other times, we get roasted till early April.

I did a bit of research into weather patterns some time ago, and its simmilar to the years after the drought broke in the mid 40s, very simmilar to our recent years of drought etc.

Well must get back to finishing the tiling.

Trains

Nothing unusual here in Perth - just perfect clear blue skies, lovely warm weather and we've all enjoyed the summer immensely although it has been yet another humid summer - and many people are sick of that, as Perth has traditionally had a dry heat. Evaporative airconditioners that are so popular here, don't cope well with the humidity so many people are now chosing to install refridgerated or split system aircons - us included, this summer we installed a small refridgerated airconditioner into our office, which has been wonderful.

Have just started to notice a "slight" coolness now in the mornings so might need to start wearing a t-shirt rather than a tank top when I walk the kids to school ;)

Still think the Perth climate is preferable to anywhere else (having lived in Sydney, Parkes, Armidale, Darwin, before coming here).
Michelle

This morning my rain gauge registered 110 mm. For Broken Hill it's the most I've ever seen come down in one hit.

And...it's still raining.

The Barrier Highway between Cockburn & Mingary is cut due to the bridge over Pine Creek being structurally damaged by flood waters.

Hi Stephen,

Strange weather indeed, and who'd be a weather forecaster, it seems almost impossible to get the forecast right lately. After a few days of forecast heavy rain that didn't actually happen, it finally started to rain for real last night, and its still going now. Dams and creeks all well and truly full. Barometer is falling, cloud ceiling very low and only about 20 degrees.

Still its a great day to try out our newly installed wood heater - gave it a burn last night just so we could say we had it on in summer.

Cheers,

Val

Well, I'm planning a trip across the Simpson from 15 March once it re-opens after the Summer closure and just spoke to Dave at Mt Dare station who advised me they had water through the pub for the seond day running today and that the surrounding country looks like an ocean, and yes it was still raining. All unsealed roads around Marree to Mt Dare are closed too. Sure does make planning a big event tricky.
Vic