Batten Down the Hatches Qld

[Jeepers Creepers]

WE had no flooding at all in 2011.... 

[bmwfreak]

Hey JC, I lived in Brightview from 2007-2016, so lived through all 2010, 2011 and 2013 floods. From our house, on a hill, the entire area was under around 2.5m of water. We were locked in for a week for each of these events. If you had no flooding in 2011, you weren't in the Lockyer Valley😭

[Jeepers Creepers]

Pretty cool huh, we are one in about 5 houses that never copped it. 

[Bird]

I was talking to a lady yesterday from just up the road and I mentioned, we're supposed to get around 5mm of rain this week.

She said, no, October we are getting rain and lots of it.

How do you know that, i asked.

She said, that's what the onion man said, and he has never been wrong.
Apparently, Atkinson's dam refills every 7 years like clockwork..... it was last full in 2012.

Will be interesting now, to see if the onion man is still on form.
Mind you, while I want/need rain, I don't want a years worth in 1 month either.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/weather/hally-predicts-weather-and-rainfall-using-only-an-onion-and-salt/news-story/240e24eb4fbc552aee0c1ca83bf6d2e8 

[Pete79]

Looks like he got September, October, November right for us last year.

And I recon his right hand side onion was dry, dry, dry, dry this year...

[rockrat]

This is a photo I took on Saturday from the Glass House Mountains Cafe. It is unbelievable how dry it is.



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[wetduck]

Only dirt and dead grass here. 129mm rain for the year.

[Bird]

.. and flood warnings in Victoria...
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/warnings/

[Pete79]

Yeah, yeah. We all know Victorians hate living in Victoria.

Too cold last week, too wet this week and will be too hot next week...

[tryagain]

This is a photo I took on Saturday from the Glass House Mountains Cafe. It is unbelievable how dry it is.

Been out Beaudesert way a bit with work lately, that pic looks lush compared to out there at the moment.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Yeah, yeah. We all know Victorians hate living in Victoria.

Too cold last week, too wet this week and will be too hot next week...

Next thing ya know, they'll be changing time on their clocks..... because they're not happy with the time of day it is.

[Pete79]

Next thing ya know, they'll be changing time on their clocks..... because they're not happy with the time of day it is.

Haha. Too much sunlight when they wake up for work...

[Jeepers Creepers]

We missed most of yesterday's rain.

we scored a whooping 2mm.

[Fizzie]

We got 7.5!!!

Sad, I know, getting excited about 7.5mm

On 28/6, we had 9.5mm - since then, up till yesterday, we've had a total of 6.5!, but our average for July, August & September is usually ~170mm.

At least it looks like it's done something to cool the bushfires up in the Hinterland.

[Jeepers Creepers]

We are meant to get a tiny bit of rain next week..... believe it when I see it.

[Steffo1]

We got 7.5!!!

Sad, I know, getting excited about 7.5mm

On 28/6, we had 9.5mm - since then, up till yesterday, we've had a total of 6.5!, but our average for July, August & September is usually ~170mm.

At least it looks like it's done something to cool the bushfires up in the Hinterland.

0.76mm here

[Jeepers Creepers]

we had a cell develop right above us.... again, not a drop here, by the time it hit Lowood, pissing down.
It only had to from 300 metres further west and we would have got more than the bit we got later in the day.

On maybe, 7 or 8 times, we have a cell form up right above us.... got me beat why.

[noel_w]

we had a cell develop right above us.... again, not a drop here, by the time it hit Lowood, pissing down.
It only had to from 300 metres further west and we would have got more than the bit we got later in the day.

On maybe, 7 or 8 times, we have a cell form up right above us.... got me beat why.

Most probably the hot air emanating from your property 

[Fizzie]

Mixed with all the chemical fumes!

[Jeepers Creepers]

Yep, that would pretty much be it i'm thinking... thanks you two.

[Pete79]

& "Police are speaking to a number of teenagers over a fire that has destroyed at least one home and damaged up to 10 at Peregian Beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast overnight, and continues to burn out of control"

It's not just kids being idiots with fires...

"An investigation is underway after two police officers fired their weapons during the dramatic arrest of a 53-year-old man suspected of lighting fires in north Queensland.

Police were called to Palm Grove in the Whitsunday Region about 3:00pm yesterday after a helicopter pilot witnessed a man allegedly lighting fires near Cedar Creek Falls.

Police allege when the officers found the man, he rammed their car with his vehicle.

Both officers fired at the man's vehicle."

https://abc.net.au/news/2019-09-19/north-queensland-bushfire-suspect-shot-at/11526808?pfmredir=sm

[Bird]

anyone planning on straddy??



Stradbroke Island bushfire rages ahead of school holiday population boom

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-19/bushfire-queensland-stradbroke-island-fire-ferry-school-holidays/11527528

[Fizzie]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-06/qld-heatwave-forecast-with-fire-conditions/11575298

Stay safe, & (try to) keep cool out there, everybody

[Jeepers Creepers]

40 for both days for us..... humidity will be the deal breaker, hopefully it stays low.

[rags]

40 for both days for us..... humidity will be the deal breaker, hopefully it stays low.

Or really high if you would prefer not to have fires