Townsville 24 deg today but only felt like 17c briefly midday felt like 14 c !
Yeppoon 20.6 c but feels like was at most 13.4 c with the cold dry westerlies.
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48.8mm in Yeppoon from last night into this morning the median for August is only 18mm.
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Earthquake measuring 3.6 on Richter scale shakes Kangaroo Island
An earthquake measuring 3.6 has been recorded in the early hours of the morning on Kangaroo Island.
The KI quake was at a depth of 10km and was felt near Kingscote – as well as on parts of the mainland – just after 1am on Wednesday, according to Geoscience Australia.
Update
The UK government has instructed citizens to delete old emails and pictures to help conserve water, following the announcement of a “nationally significant” water shortage.
Its chair, Helen Wakeham, added that “simple, everyday choices – such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails – also really helps the collective effort to reduce demand”.
As well as deleting old emails, the National Drought Group has urged people to delete old pictures as well as “data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems”.
Dr Venkatesh Uddameri, a Texas-based expert in water resources management, recently told the BBC that a typical data centre can use between 11 million and 19 million litres of water per day, roughly the same as a town of 30,000 to 50,000 people.
However, seems to be little merit in the advice.
As some onlookers have noted, the recommendation rings a little hollow when juxtaposed next to the UK government’s commitment to turbocharge growth using AI. Perhaps more pertinently, the advice rings hollow because it’s likely not very sensible. While it’s true that data centers do consume large amounts of water through evaporative cooling (where it’s used), the vast majority of this power draw comes from CPU and GPU computation, not the storage of pictures and emails. Once the data is stored, the storage devices generate very little heat and are often spun down (placed into low- or no-power states) and called upon only when needed.
The impact of an individual deleting emails and old photos on data center water usage is likely to be so infinitesimal as to be considered futile. In fact, rooting out old emails and photos and deleting them from your online archives might well use more energy and water than storing them in the first place, making this a counterproductive exercise.
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Laughable. Absolutely laughable. I guess it’s like saying goodbye to precious memories you’ve collected over the years at the behest of the very government that also implemented the AI age verification policy.
Fewer words… MS posts… less water used here 
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That’s up there with the vote to leave the EU in terms of dumb crap the Brits have come up with.
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Must’ve been pretty early because I didn’t feel anything.
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“Delete old emails to conserve water for data centre cooling, but don’t worry about how much more power that ChatGPT and AI generators use compared to normal internet browsing!”
It’s very much another “rules for thee but not for me” situation
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Earthquake felt in SEQ.
Eyewitnesses reported shaking in australia 4 min ago (local time 09:50:40)
At present, we have no seismic data confirming this crowdsourced detection.
#Earthquake possibly felt 39 sec ago in #Australia. Felt it? Tell us via:
— EMSC (@LastQuake) August 15, 2025
📱https://t.co/QMSpuj6Z2H
🌐https://t.co/AXvOM7I4Th
🖥https://t.co/wPtMW5ND1t
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon! pic.twitter.com/sLWr91FjME
Update:
#Earthquake confirmed by seismic data.Preliminary info: M5.4 || 17 km E of #Wondai (australia) || 7 min ago (local time 09:49:27). Follow the thread for the updates👇
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Report:
Geoscience Australia says aftershocks should “certainly” be expected, following the 5.6 magnitude quake that struck Kilkivan on Saturday morning. It’s Queensland’s biggest onshore earthquake in 50 years, felt from Cairns to Sydney.
Did you feel anything and more importantly, did it impact on your antenna set up!?
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Haha. Didn’t feel anything though I got several texts from people in Brisbane who felt a significant shaking when it happened. That alerted me to the event before it was reported by any media. Everyone seemed to have initially thought that something else was happening before realising it was an earthquake - possums on the roof, the neighbours tractor ..
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I’ve experienced 4 earthquakes… 3 very minor (Perth x 1, Muswellbrook x 2) plus the BIG one in Newcastle 1989 (Magnitude 5.5). That was scary, I was at home, the whole house shook violently, I saw our TV fall over (which wasn’t on at the time) and there was eerie silence in the few seconds after. The main quake only lasted maybe 5 seconds.
Did Seven Queensland break into programming with a Stop and Listen alert, and this?
I was there for that one. People think I caused the friggin’ thing - I was 4 years old and not that fat.
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Only on MediaSpy would someone ask that first😆
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