Crikey it’s wet

[spacesailor]

Thank you .

But , per hour , day , or Total,  of continuous rain .

Sorry to be an ass , Iv'e never thought about it , untill this 400 mm plus in eight hours , Spanish disaster. 

I see the death toll is continuing to rise .

spacesailor

[nomadpete]

Possible answer Space.

 

Modern electronic rain gauges often use a 'tipping teaspoon' type measuring system. When the little spoon is full, it tips out, is counted electronically, and instantly resets to measure the next couple of mils.

 

As such, the electronics can measure endless amounts of rainfall, and also measure the intensity of rainfall in mils per hour.

[nomadpete]

[old man emu]

This morning dawned overcast, so I took a look at the weather radar. There was an indication of light to moderate rain moving towards my place from the west. Another look around midday showed that although there were areas of rain approaching, the main body seems to have split up as usual and will go around my place. Waste my time checking the debris screen on my rainwater collection system.

[willedoo]

53 inches of rain so far for the year, so we should get near to the yearly average of 60 inches. We get a lot of 40 and 45 inch years; the average is helped upward from the particularly wet years. Over time we've had a few in the 80's, 90 and the wettest year was just over 100 inches. The driest has been in the low 30's.

 

I remember once reading a small booklet on the local history and our local town here got 90 inches one January just before the turn of the 20th. Century. The road to the coast was cut for five months that year. In those days the road would have probably been a fair bit lower. I think it was just cut and corduroyed  tea tree over the swamp with a gravel road base on top.

[pmccarthy]

Are you suggesting we had big climate events before global warming destroyed our environment? Straight to the naughty corner.

[nomadpete]

That was before Joh came into power and stabilised Queensland.

[facthunter]

What the  Horses were in a STABLE condition while Joh was living on peanuts.  nev

[old man emu]

54 minutes ago, facthunter said:

What the  Horses were in a STABLE condition

Was that conclusion obtained from the results of a Gallup poll?

[nomadpete]

It was the workers who were living on peanuts. Whilst good old Joh made his money by renting harvesters to nut farmers.

[old man emu]

It's been blowing hard here today with the wind blowing at 20 kts gusting to 30-odd from the NNE. I'm east of the front so it's pretty obvious why it's so blowy.

The forecast was for thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, and if not, just rain. That strong wind from the NNE looks like it's going to push any rain from the front down to the southeast, and I'll miss out again.

[facthunter]

Your area is a bit like the area between Bacchus Marsh and the  Yuyangs .Also Townsville. Consistently gets less rain than the areas immediately around it.  Nev

[old man emu]

One should be careful of what one wishes for. I copped a big storm last night which dumped buckets of rain. The rain on the roof was so loud I had to crank up the volume to hear what I was watching on YouTube. It rained through the night and there was even a heavy fall about 4:00 am which woke me. The yard looked like a paddy field. The only damage seems to be to the pressure pump from the bore. I had no water from it this morning. Luckily I do have rainwater storage. With the dust washed off the grass, things look good and I expect it to be jumping out of the ground in a day or two.

 

 

[onetrack]

Can't beat a good dose of rain to freshen everything up. But I guess the mozzies will be building up again, soon?

[facthunter]

It IS storm time. Early summer. Build ups are usually more towards the ranges. Nev

[spacesailor]

We ( Sydney ) had a downpour. 

Just Finnished mowing the lawn , again .

spacesailor

[nomadpete]

We get regular sessions of drizzle at this time of year.

Yeah, the grass grows. But constant mowing keeps it neat. Our furry autonomous mowers are great!

 

The best thing about moving down here from Qld is that some years the grass gets so out of hand I have to get the ride-on out twice! In a year!

 

It used to be twice in a week.

[old man emu]

6 hours ago, onetrack said:

But I guess the mozzies will be building up again, soon?

Mozzies, yes. Also the myriad of very small gnats and such that can't be held out by flyscreens and which cluster around illuminating lights at night. I often wonder what goes through their miniscule minds in the instant after I turn off the light and plunge the room into relative darkness. 

[facthunter]

They probably think heaven has eluded them again..  there's often a few spiders beneath them ready to get the ones that fall. Get one of those blue light insect killers. Bats are effective insect eaters and a protected species.  Nev

[red750]

Saturday in Melbourne was hot (for us) and windy. It was our parish fete, and the wind kept trying to blow my broad brimmed hat off.  Standing in the queue for the hamburger stall was hot. Yesterday started out with a downpour in the morning, but by 1:00 pm is was clear blue sky and 25 deg.  Today is cooler at 16 deg, but nice and sunny. Hot, cool, hot, cool. Plays hell with the sinuses. 

 

 

[red750]

Today was hotter than in my last post, 34 deg. Being an old fart, I'm not handling the heat well. I was indoors all day but had a pain in the stomach. I lay on the bed a couple of times, and at one stage thought I was hoing to throw up. Tomorrow will be hotter, forecast for 37 deg.

 

 

 

 

 

[red750]

37 deg yesterday, 19 deg and pouring right now. Arhh Melbourne.

[facthunter]

Don't go to Broome then.  Nev

[facthunter]

It stays HOT at Broome. .  RAIN makes things grow much better than Tap water. does. Who wants day after day of heat??

[onetrack]

I'd rather be warm than frozen. Broome is just fine by me, especially with Cable Beach to compensate for the heat. 

We've had a mild Spring, and probably a little wetter and slightly warmer than normal. Overall, rainfall for the S.W. of W.A. is down for the year. The 7 month drought we had between October 2023 and May 2024 killed quite a few trees (including big ones), and left the soil moisture profile, very very dry.

 

The cropping season looked terrible in April, not a skerrick of moisture in the ground anywhere. But the farmers went ahead and cropped normally anyway, dry-seeding paddocks by the thousand.

Then we had reasonably good rains in May (76mm), June was better (118mm, close to average), July was quite wet (170mm, well above average), August was wetter again (138mm, also way above average), Sept was a bit dry (39mm, well below average, with 18 days with no rain), in Oct we got 47mm, above average - and Nov has produced 10mm so far, a little below average.

 

The Northern Wheatbelt and the Pastoral areas further North had stunning Winter rains, thanks to tropical moisture feeding in regularly from the NW, off the Indian Ocean.

Kalbarri had 317mm for June, close to its total annual rainfall of 341mm, just in that one month! The Northern Wheatbelt got too wet to spray crops in July, they had to revert to aerial spraying and drones!

 

But the grain coming out of the Northern Wheatbelt harvest now is staggering, some farmers are reporting 4 tonnes to the hectare for wheat (20 bags to the acre in the old money), a mind-blowing performance for country that is normally marginal.

Overall, even though rainfall was below average for most of the S.W. of W.A., the crops have done well, with rain coming just in time for many. Some areas went backwards because they missed out on vital rain amounts at the right time - but overall, the total crop tonnage for the State is starting to look like it will make nearly 19M tonnes, which will be the 3rd biggest crop on record.

 

With Summer only a few days away, the projections are for warmer minimums and slightly higher maximums, making for a warm Summer to come. But at present, we've had very little hot weather for Spring, and it's been a quite enjoyable period, weather-wise.

It's going to be 34° today, before it drops back to the high 20's and low 30's for the rest of the week, then dropping back to the mid-20's for the weekend, with the chance of a few showers.

 

https://www.giwa.org.au/wa-crop-reports/2024-season/giwa-crop-report-november-2024/