The day ran through the full range of seasons. The temperature rose to around 32ºC and then we experienced a thunderstorm and lightning around 5pm. That cleared the atmosphere and before sundown, the same scene looked radiant.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013
A day in the life....at Ourimbah.
This morning it was very misty. It was a fairly chilly morning for a January on the NSW Central Coast.
The day ran through the full range of seasons. The temperature rose to around 32ºC and then we experienced a thunderstorm and lightning around 5pm. That cleared the atmosphere and before sundown, the same scene looked radiant.
The day ran through the full range of seasons. The temperature rose to around 32ºC and then we experienced a thunderstorm and lightning around 5pm. That cleared the atmosphere and before sundown, the same scene looked radiant.
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Looks a very peaceful spot, Geoff. Hope the fires give you a wide berth.
ReplyDeletecheers
JohnM
With acknowledgements to Meatloaf (now deleted from the celeb invitation list after his performance at the 2011 GF :-)"You took the words right outa my mouth" young bro'.
DeleteGreat pics Geoff and I reciprocate John's sensitivity on the issue of fires. We have kids (including grandkids) camping down on Wilsons Prom at present, so we are pretty tuned in, with another windy, top 30s day tomorrow.
Cheers al
The two day stay we recently had near Johanna beach along the Great Ocean road turned out to be overcast & bleak. Jeans & coat weather while Qld was expierencing tempertures around 40 C.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't the best to photograph the likes of the 12 apossels but we went into the Otway ranges where the changing light on ferns, moss, fungi made for excellent photography.
Got the 12 apossels shots & other simular features by on the day we were to move onto Ballarat we got up at pre dawn & we were down at the cliffs at daybreak with the clouds now broken & bright low light comming in.
And Geoff's pics and following comments show what a land of huge contrasts we live in (No surprise there) but after months of little to no rain, Gladstone has now received almost 140 mls since yesterday afternoon, still raining, while up north at Tully, almost 700 mls in 72 hours - more than two feet (28 inches) on the old scale. Wow!
ReplyDeleteSend some of that rain down to us in Vic John, we surely need it!
DeleteAhhh ...... The 12 Apostles / Great Ocean Road, Dale! Hope you are happy with your pics. We have a great collection, taken over many years. Of the entire Shipwreck Coast in fact, down through Warrnambool, Pt Fairy, Portland, Nelson, Pt MacDonnell, and then up to Mt Gambier, continuing on then up through Beachport, Robe, Kingston to the Coorong .... magic drives!!
Cheers al
Mt Larcom, west of Gladstone. 4-00 pm.Thurs RAIN RAIN RAIN 10mm short of 12 INCHES since 9-00 pm last night and no end in sight.
ReplyDeleteJust sent this family email (but now its about 280 mls or as Peter says approaching 12 inches - still pouring:
ReplyDeleteMy email: No rain for months, now this. Terrible weather here - in the past couple of days we have had more than 10 inches (250 mls) now and still raining and very strong winds. Cathy went to work yesterday and was planning to again today but it's just in-service (no students) stuff so I am telling her no, it's not worth the risks of driving to and from town in this. Bruce Highway is cut to Rocky and the road to Gladstone could easily be cut too. We have had no problems with water here, it all runs off ok, but there will be local flooding for sure, probably some trees down, and the government and Ports Corporation will be able to blame it for any further fish kills even tho it won't happen anywhere else - just as it didn't happen anywhere else two years ago. Dredge on....
Update. Since 9-00 pm wed night, Mt Larcom has now received 22.5 inches and no end in sight yet.
DeleteAll my Ark building materials are getting wet rot.
Still pouring here too Peter and very windy. With our big deck sail we could just sail away like the old Vikings... The figures i've been quoting are just for Gladstone. No idea how much Tannum has had, probably more being on the coast, but enough to say "A lot".
DeleteTotal since 9-00pm on wed 23rd until 9-00am friday 25th was 24 inches (600mm)
DeleteThe rainfall forecast for Gladstone region for Fri 25th is 400mm to 500mm.
If predictions run as forecast we will receive ONE METRE or more of Rain in less than 3 days.
I have had to revert to the old fashioned rain Gauge instead of the weather station because it looks like a spider has got into the "tipping bucket" mechanism out of the rain.
This has happened several times before. When the spider gets in and attaches itself to the electronic tipping bucket, it cannot tip and so doesn't register.
What is incredible is that an hour after the rain stops there is very little evidence of it having rained here in the town. Roads north and south flood but the town does not.
OK you bananabenders, how about sending some of it down here to parched (and yesterday, baking again) Vic?
ReplyDeletePerhaps if I get you all to play this YouTube link from the late 50's classic, "The Day that the Rains Came (Down)"? Copy and paste it, an 'unusual' Mariarchi instrumental version, into your browser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmFM1pHRN8
Would be good if we had the ability (a la Ning) to simply embed such posts, wouldn't it? :-)
Cheers al
The days that the Rains came (Down
DeleteWill try to get out for some pics later. This is getting ridiculous seeing we had virtually no rain for three months, now this. You are welcome to some for sure Al, it this could be moved around or spaced out it would be good but that's not the way it works :0) Just sent this email out - it's worse than the Jan 2011 event and still raining:
ReplyDeleteWell we are now past 1050 mls or 42 inches on the old scale since it started a couple of days ago which is mind boggling. Highest one day rain ever for yesterday. 460 mm or over 18 inches in the 24 hrs to noon on Friday. It's still raining and an emergency flood alert has been issued for homes along the Boyne River which is expected to peak at 8.45 this morning. Awoonga Dam is 4.8 metres over the spillway which is higher than the flood level two years ago. Cant't get to the dam but might venture over to Boyne Island later for some pics. Don't know how 'my' beach radar antennas have fared - they were moved to higher ground after Cyclone Yasi drowned them but what we have had leaves the local effects of Yasi far behind.
Wind gusts over 90 km/hr in Gladstone yesterday. Apart from a couple of pot plants blown over, we have fared very well although the yard is pretty soggy. No water in the house or granny flat downstairs or even ther back verandah sleepout.
I don't remember seeing rain like this before here. We were stuck at Tewantin during the Jan 2011 floods but as I said, the dam level did not reach this height. If old Noah was around now he would be building an ark for sure.
cheers
John
Latest for Mt Larcom. The total known rainfall for period 9-00pm Wednesday night to 9-00am Saturday morning is approx 54 INCHES . Exact amount is largely unknown because I had to estimate the rainfall because the gauge overflowed when I dared to go to bed to get some sleep.
DeleteThe total for the 24 hours would be 755mm plus because of not having an exact reading.
My gauge is only a 6 inch (150mm) one but I access it from my front landing and do not have to go downstairs to read it.
When it stops raining I am going to have to pull the weather station down and clear out the spider that has crawled into the "tipping bucket" mechanism and stopped the bucket from tipping.
When It overflowed this morning, I estimated the rainfall for the 6.5 hours from 2-00am to 8-30am (when I finally dragged myself out of bed).
The rainfall for 1 hour from 8-30 til 9-30 was 72mm which would have given a reading of 468mm for the 6.5 hour period. This would mean a 24 HOUR reading of 755mm (or a bit over 30 inches.
The estimate would have been a bit on the conservative side because I took the 1 hour reading just before the rain eased. It had been raining much harder during the entire night.
Well, in beautiful Ourimbah we got the tail of the tiger and had around 200 ml in 24 hours. Now it is sunny as... and a little steamy from the sodden earth.
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