We just had the entire months rainfall fall in just a few hrs from midnight yesterday and into early morning yesterday . Average is 31.8 mm for August (second driest month of the year)
46.2mm all up.
BOM forecast for days said 40 percent chance possible shower 0-2mm lol
Yeppoon Qld
Had to tip water out of a pot that had potting mix in, somehow had saturated it.
Itâs honestly starting to feel like a repeat of 2019 before the horrific bushfire season. Weâre desperately in need of some decent rainfall.
Here in the Illawarra, for instance, weâve only had 2mm of rain so far this month, and just 14mm fell last month (when the average for July here is 52mm). Yet, people still refuse to believe in climate change.
Itâs been wet this side of the range for months, though the last couple of weeks have been drier. The area NW of Canberra (around Boorowa) has had near record rainfall the past few months. More rain last night with a strong storm. But unfortunately these westerly derived rain systems donât make the east coast. I noticed some smoke around from hazard reduction burns on Tuesday evening.
Rockhampton which is just 40km from Yeppoon has had 294mm this year should be up to 560 mm by now so much for La Nina.
Yeppoon has had about 666mm though we should be on about 740mm but not as bad of a deficit.
Yeah basically Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Gladstone all these areas missed out on La Nina there is somewhere in NSW that is 700mm above average this year due to La Nina I forget the place.
Every month of winter here on the Capricorn Coast has been above average though our averages here arenât that high at this time of year eg this month 32mm last month 43mm etc.
I knew CQ missed out on last summerâs Niña but gee that Rockhampton figure is bad. Canberra has had much more than that this year. It must be a dustbowl there; the evaporation rates in Rockhampton would be orders of magnitude higher than in Canberra.
Donât live in the tropics, especially not Rocky or Townsville.
The CFAâs modelling indicates the greatest increase in âextremeâ fire risk days per year will occur in north-west Victoria, where much of the stateâs grain is produced.
The greatest change in âvery highâ fire danger days per year will occur in central and eastern Victoria.
Snow fell to 400 metres in southern Tasmania on Monday morning, and to 600 metres in the north of the state.
Collinsvale, north-west of Hobart, and kunanyi/Mt Wellington were both blanketed by snow, while Todâs Corner in the Central Highlands received 15 centimetres of snow.
The snow in southern Tasmania is expected to recede to 600 metres in the afternoon, and to 800 metres by Monday evening.