Extreme Weather
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Lol Willis Island Radar, east of Cairns.
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So it's very fucking wet in Cairns. Having already copped a metre of rain in 4 days, we've now had up to half a metre today
All the dams are over, rivers are at record levels. We're cut off in all directions, and as you see above, the airport will be out of action for probably tomorrow as well.And the rain just will not let up
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@mariner4life
Thought Jasper was fucking off west but it just seems to keep dumping rain on you.Not sure if the following link works showing the last week of rain, but maximum calibration is 400mm which pretty obviously doesn't capture realty...
Your radar has looked like this since Wednesday ...
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR193.loop.shtml
Forecast to keep like this till Tuesday...
Hope you live up a hill...
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Yeah I'm tucked in to the mountains so all good
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The good news is the dams on the farm are full again. So no more thrice daily checks to see if cattle are attempting suicide.
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
The good news is the dams on the farm are full again. So no more thrice daily checks to see if cattle are attempting suicide.
You're down our way huh? On Tinana Creek?
Been a few storms but as per not quite hitting Hervey Bay (although the edge of a decent one bowled through the eastern side of town last night ... not out our way ... the random effects of thunder storms).
Bloke killed in thunder storm in Brissy the other night:
- Massive winds (cyclone strength), big rain, and appears he may have tried to move a fallen branch with an overhead cable attached
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- Massive winds (cyclone strength), big rain, and appears he may have tried to move a fallen branch with an overhead cable attached
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so yesterday was a nearly unprecedented rain event. It is not, for now, raining in Cairns today, but there is rain forecast for later, and unfortunately in river catchment areas.
Still a lot of stranded people. The photos of the Port Douglas road don't look promising for that opening any time soon.
we're on water for emergency use only as the supplies of treated water dwindles, and the system is fucked up. some places still without power.
Been an interesting week
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@mariner4life doesn't seem right to upvote, hope you bought enough food and water, gas, before this rolled in?
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food maybe? booze definitely
and i filled all my big water canisters yesterday.
otherwise i'll just pull buckets out of the creekif the roads don't open she's gonna be a sad christmas though
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Apparently the Palmerston Highway is impassable unless you have a General Lee:
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Barron River is the flood plain on which the Cairns airport is situated ...
See the Cairns weather station was knocked out if action. Assume it was situated at the airport.
Talking (well, Teamsing) to a staff member in Cairns today. She's OK but friends on the northern beaches have "lost their house". Dunno what that actually means, but fully shit regardless.
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@antipodean those graphics give such a different perspective, there was one when Gabrielle hit NZ earlier in the year, as she passed Aus she sucked in all the cloud and rain from Aus to take to NZ, these weather systems are scary...
I remember Bola, we were camping, got told we should go home as a cyclone was coming...when she hit, huge swells rolling into Matai Bay, windy af, we thought we should go home...but the data back then was obviously not as readily available.
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Different form of storms smashing the East coast these last couple of days.
Seven dead across a couple of states.
Tenth man confirmed dead following violent storms across country's east coast
Severe storms across Australia's east coast have now claimed the lives of ten people as the clean-up continues across several states.
100s of 1000s lost power on the Goldie and in Brisie with winds equivalent to a Cat 2 cyclone.
Fishing trip capsized with loss of life, and a 3 people lost in storm drains, in two separate incidents (including a 9yo).
Locally not much more than usual summer storms, except for a lightning strike like next door a couple of nights ago, and thunder experienced on the Richter scale last night (very very frightening).
Apparently a mass of unstable air passing over getting more unstable with the heat. Due to crank up again on the weekend it seems.
Seems Sydney copping it this arvo ... video from random Twitter acount ...
