Crikey it’s wet

[nomadpete]

11 hours ago, kgwilson said:

Was he there with Paul and Mary as well?

I was!

[facthunter]

 What was it you sought? Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

What is due to happen in the murray-darling basin?

[onetrack]

Bruce - As regards what, exactly? Are you expecting big inflows into the Murray-Darling basin from this ex-tropical cyclone Alfred producing heavy rain in SE Qld?

 

The majority of the heavy rainfall appears to be on the East side of the Great Dividing Range in SE Qld, so that water is heading to the Pacific Ocean.

The rainfall on the Western slopes of the GDR appears to be too light to produce any major inflows to the Murray-Darling system.

 

http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/flood/index.shtml?ref=hdr

 

Edited Sunday at 03:09 AM by onetrack

[spacesailor]

My eldest has left ' South West Rocks ' as the ' upstream ' floodgates have been opened. 

They won't get flooded , but isolated ' , by a low hight bridge being closed to all traffic. 

They just dropped in to tell us , while on their way to Victoria. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Thanks for the timely warning. Nev

[old man emu]

Looks like I'm going to keep pretty dry. Them pesky rain clouds are avoiding my place. Wouldn't like the drought to end.

 

[facthunter]

You live in a place where you can't reliably get rain from any direction.  Nev

[old man emu]

45 minutes ago, facthunter said:

You live in a place where you can't reliably get rain from any direction.  Nev

Yeah. It seems to be the border between sub-tropical and temperate weather systems. It has been hot, dry and windy here all summer. The grass in the paddocks is dead. I wondering if there is enough soil moisture for a winter crop to be sown. 

[onetrack]

OME, your rainfall region is subject to wide seasonal variations, but the current climatic trend for your region is also inclining towards drought. You could be worse off, spare a thought for the rural South Australians, a lot have even run out of drinking water. The S.A. farmers have just endured the worst cropping season in 80 years, with inadequate rain through last Winter, accompanied by savage frosts.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/02/they-cant-drink-water-they-cant-flush-the-toilet-low-rainfall-in-the-adelaide-hills-has-left-thousands-on-the-brink

 

 

[pmccarthy]

It’s raining! Just a few points so far, but it sounds great.

[old man emu]

31 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:

It’s raining! Just a few points so far, but it sounds great.

Where?

[pmccarthy]

Near Castlemaine, but it is all over now.