Good morning weather watchers :)

Probably should of started this on the 1st of May, but here we are.
The rain we are getting the last few days is not really Wet Season stuff so lets put it in here.

Friday 2nd 14mm
Sat 3rd 31mm
Sun 4th 32mm
Mon 5th 69mm

146mm over the 4 days..


Cheers

Thanks Bunyip, let's hope we get a few breaks in this stuff this year..

Just 4mm in the gauge this morning and the drizzly stuff continues.


Cheers

Only 3mm in the gauge just now.

Yeah Scott, looks like at least another week of the same.
05:50 and just back from my walk with the dog and it's still and if you didn't
know you would say it is going to be a magic day.


Cheers

Probably a good time to redo the floor in the boat, just need a bit of spare time

another 69mm over the past 4 days up till tonight...

Managed to get a pistol match at Kurrimine in this morning in the light showery rain and gusty wind...lots of staples needed to keep the targets on the corflutes but everyone soldiered on..

Bunyip it sounds like our Clump point ramp ..if you get there late on a good weather weekend then you just about have to call a taxi to get from the ramp to where you need to park the trailer half a mile away..I guess because they are often empty during foul weather the muppets dont get how important for the community the need for parks is when the weather comes good..

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10 wet days straight now with a further 54mm overnight...enough already please...the ground has become super soggy..

SM.. that deeral ramp probably gets a lot of cairns folk use it as well which probably annoys the Deeral locals that live there specifically because of proximity to the ramp..we know some people that have a shack down at Russell heads and when the weather is good they take their family and boats and spend some time based down there...I'm a bit envious of their setup but they have worked damn hard to acheive it.......

I like to go out of Mourilyan when I have to time, nice ramp, friendlier people and plenty of fish if the freezer needs a restock.
Looks like the weather is on the improve, maybe good enough for the bigger boats..

Pretty dubious aboout that article weary..

Written by ABC's meteorologist is the first warning sign but the heading "BOM rain forecasts close to perfect" made me laugh a little...

Due to the localised nature of much of the rain events, geography,big rainfall range over small areas etc its no surprise anything but a general forecast can be given..ie possible thunderstorms, showers tending to rain,etc..

So in effect perfect forecasting means "possible thunderstorms" is theoretically correct if one place gets even a few spits from a storm but the rest of the region gets nothing.....likewise 1mm from a passing shower but the rest of the region is dry makes a "possible shower' forecast also correct...

Yet the article claims that when we think BOM have it wrong thats just based on "perception"or "selective memory"...

Anyway none the less interesting but to me the whole article sounds like its written by someone trying to justify their job..


So weather wise it was down to about 16c here last night and my little staffy was snuggled up against me through the night...

Glorius weather days though(except for the SouEasters and I've been catching up on the mowing by doing a bit each day as the grass is very high and I'm trying to nurse the old Greenfield along for as long as possible...

Best get done before the weekend though as showery weather if forecast to return with a wetter month next month possible..

Just the 4.5mm here in the last 12 days. Lots of birds using the bird bath at the moment.

Good points about the perfect BOM Scott. I think if they forecast 0-60mm for a certain location for a certain day it's not quite perfect yet. Since supercomputers their forecasts have got a lot better but on keeping their jobs the old saying is still amusing, "Weather forecasters have the best profession in the world, you can be wrong all the time and still keep your job."

May: 106mm
YTD: 2251mm