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Offline Sheridan Mist  
#221 Posted : Monday, 16 February 2026 10:17:10 AM(UTC)
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69mm in the gauge here this morning. Around 50 of that fell in about 30 minutes at 8pm, there was water everywhere for a while. A nice blob of red sat over us.

The forecast for this arvo is a possible severe storm with heavy rainfall which may lead to flash flooding. Could be interesting.

It's good to see you have a new official gauge Scott. We could do with a couple more in Cairns also.

Feb: 239.5mm
YTD: 764.5mm
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#222 Posted : Wednesday, 18 February 2026 10:25:47 AM(UTC)
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14mm here overnight. We're slowly crawling our way towards the 15 year average of 464mm. A way to go yet though. The GFS saying at the moment no Tropical lows around for the next couple of weeks. A bit unusual for this time of year.

Feb: 263.5m.
YTD: 788.5mm
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#223 Posted : Thursday, 19 February 2026 8:47:21 AM(UTC)
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46 mm overnight, most of that from a ripper of a storm.
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#224 Posted : Thursday, 19 February 2026 9:43:30 AM(UTC)
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Saw the lightning over your way. Light sprinkle in Mareeba.
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#225 Posted : Thursday, 19 February 2026 11:39:24 AM(UTC)
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We caught the edge of those storms yesterday, 16mm in the gauge here. There was one close strike in the arvo.

Feb: 279.5mm
YTD: 804.5mm
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#226 Posted : Friday, 20 February 2026 6:20:50 AM(UTC)
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Good morning folks :)

No rain up here, but wow that radar looks good this morning if your south of kans..
Here is hoping it moves north over the next few days.

Last couple of days have been fairly uncomfortable, even used the A/C for a few hours each night
to get some sleep without laying in a pool of sweat.


Scott, I've always wanted a Brno fox in .22 hornet, shot one when I was much younger for a bit and
made good money on foxes. I've got a CBC break action single shot & a CZ 527 with the set trigger,
works the same as the 2 triggers, you just push it forward to set it , or just shoot it without.
With NSW doing this unjustified attack on law abiding firearm owners, I'd like to have the coin to
bring a couple of nice Brno's to QLD, would like a .222 just as nostalgia and a hornet fox.


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#227 Posted : Saturday, 21 February 2026 5:46:31 PM(UTC)
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Getting some rain out of that storm only now, started about 5:30pm. Watched the big bank of black moving from the west, but it did a Chillagoe and split each side. Bit of lightning and thunder, but in the distance.
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#228 Posted : Sunday, 22 February 2026 7:03:46 AM(UTC)
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Managed 23mm from storms yesty evening :)

Cockatoo's are finishing off the last of the rambutans that we can't reach.


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#229 Posted : Sunday, 22 February 2026 2:54:21 PM(UTC)
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The forecast for White Rock yesterday was 3-30mm, we got right at the bottom end of the scale with 3. Good radar all around but it never moved over here. It looks a bit similar today.

Feb: 290.5mm
YTD: 815.5mm
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#230 Posted : Monday, 23 February 2026 6:11:28 AM(UTC)
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Good morning :) 62mm last night made for very nice sleeping weather.

Yeah SM with storms it's all hit and miss, if your under one good but it's easy to miss out.
Waiting for some proper wet season monsoon action with wide spread rain so we all get a bit .

See what the next MJO passing brings with it



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#231 Posted : Monday, 23 February 2026 9:01:53 AM(UTC)
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Very dry past week here with a few storms around but like Bunyip says they are pretty random and we missed out ..So only about half the average rainfall for this month so far with not much forecast for the week ahead...

Bloody forecasts I keep seeing on Weatherzone always have heavy rainy forecast for a week/10 days out but when that period arrives then its back to 1-5 or 5-10 again..yet the forecasters are predicting a low on the coast in early march....probably get it right one day if you keep predicting heavy rain in the wet season...

Bunyip I'd like to get a Brno Model 2 in .22 for the .22 shoots at the club...a fella I see at the range picked one up at a local dealer for $300 odd dollars i think because it has some scuff marks on the bolt knob...he chucked on a cheap scope he had lying around and has spent a few weekends seeing what ammo it likes and now shoots around half inch groups at 50 metres..like you say nostalgic for me also having shot one quite a bit as a kid and because they really are fine shooting rifles..we used to use my uncles sako .222 for shooting foxes for skins many moons ago..thats a very nice rifle too..

and yeah the cockies and fruit bats demolish most of my fruit ..I have started cutting back some fruit trees in the hope of keeping them small enough to either net or at least be able to reach the fruit..probably not the best time of the year for itbut I wanted to get at it while there is some growing season left....maybe I need to chuck some buckets over the cut ends so the water doesnt get in and rot out the trees..

and SM yeah i was looking forward to comparing the rainfall in El Arish to ours in the hills a few Km's south...The old lady at the PO used to keep a rain gauge and paper chart but she has been dead for years now....I asked a question about when we will be able to see a link to the new community funded weather station and was bombarded about sponsership, merchandise and advertising on the page...geez i justed wanted to be able to see the rainfall figues...I get a bit sick of money grubbing "influencers" monetising everything they can...

I understand its run by the school P@C for "classroom resources" and the "live weather interface"but geez I hope they are not expecting people to pay a subscription just to view it....They also want to use it as a educational tool for the small primary school there...Personally i think the little kiddies would think it was more fun to go out and read a rain gauge each day but maybe I'm just old fashioned lol...

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and hows the van fitout going 28..?...
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#232 Posted : Monday, 23 February 2026 9:25:47 AM(UTC)
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Warming up quickly this morning up here..


Scott, I picked up a Brno Mod 2 made in '68 last year, been wanting a '68 for a long time and was wasting time up in Mareeba
one day so went out to the gun shop, looked around for about 20mins and then asked if I could have a quick look in the vault
didn't want to spend any money haha,, then as I was walking out I spotted a Brno, "Don't suppose that's a '68 ? "
Old mate gets it down and oh look at that, haha .. They still fetch good coin , well they were before all the Bondi bulldust.
I paid $750 with a scope, but I changed that over with 1 I had here and it seems to shoot ok with the standard CCI stuff that
I have a bit of. I've got a few .22's they are just good economical fun.


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