Rain, Rain and more rain.

[Deskpilot]

Hi guys.

 

Don't know about you but I'm fed up with all this rain. I know we need it but it's so depressing. Therefore, tomorrow I'm heading off to Bali for a bit of R & R, particularly for my wife Jenny. But guess what, we're in for a week of thunderstorms. Can't bl**dy win. Still, at least the rain will be warm. C U when we return.

 

 

[Guest Howard Hughes]

C U when we return.

Or is that CB when we return?

 

 

[dazza 38]

Yesterday at work, beautiful, sunny day.Looking forward to my flight this saturday morning coming for my aviation fix.Now its raining again, and forcast for the next few days.Does anybody want to take the rain from us, PLEASE.

 

 

[xair1159]

If it's warm rain we'll swap it for our cold rain...........

 

Nick (in Ireland)

 

 

[andyp]

It only seems to rain in Melbourne when I have a lesson planned...

 

 

[Guest Walter Buschor]

Same here,

 

Guess I'll just have to take some sick leave!

 

 

[winsor68]

I will swap you ten warm rains for one cold rain!!! I am melting in monsoonal Mackay. The water in our front yard is still in puddles an inch deep and it hasn't rained today... there is no where left for it to drain to. When I was flying the other week my instructor commented that it the local area is more like Asia then Central Qld... We even lined up on a road to do a simulated approach... until we realized it was not a road but water.

 

P.S. Did I mention the mosquito plague?

 

 

[winsor68]

P.P.S. I have taken to carrying one of my daughters old nappies around my neck to mop up the sweat which is pooling in my belly button as I sit back on the back veranda writing this... and its after 9.00pm!

 

 

[Guest Wigg]

Your front yard is in puddles ours is a mixture of dead grass & dust. Will take all the rain we can get .

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

I notice the forecast for next week is rain in our area. Of course it will i have two weeks holiday starting Monday. :(

 

 

[winsor68]

If only someone could organize to move the water from where there is an abundance of it to where it is scarce... Not enough rain??? Ha! There is plenty of runoff in north Qld.

 

 

[Tomo]

We could do with a lot down here......

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

I will swap you ten warm rains for one cold rain!!! I am melting in monsoonal Mackay. The water in our front yard is still in puddles an inch deep and it hasn't rained today... there is no where left for it to drain to. When I was flying the other week my instructor commented that it the local area is more like Asia then Central Qld... We even lined up on a road to do a simulated approach... until we realized it was not a road but water. P.S. Did I mention the mosquito plague?

We have had quite a few days in sydney region of low thirties and 99% humidity, made me think i was back in the Whitsundays. Areas of Ross River Fever warnings as well here.

 

 

[Guest Sharp End]

Here in bayside Brissy we have had plenty of the wet stuff mixed with the odd nice day. Can't complain... except the tap water tastes like a glass and a half of full cream chlorine! :raise_eyebrow:

 

 

[facthunter]

is it the same place?

 

Wasn't it Beautiful one day, Perfect the next?. Water is amazing stuff and the thing is that there is always plenty left in the oceans (where it comes from) and it can just keep raining if the weather systems are set up for it, especially in the tropics. Then it is literally too much of a good thing... AUSTRALIA, Land of contrasts..Nev

 

 

[Guest Sharp End]

Wasn't it Beautiful one day, Perfect the next?

Yep, something like that. But hey, compared to Nev'sville, I'd rather put up with the rain... :thumb_up:

 

 

[Ballpoint 246niner]

Managed over 3 hrs yesterday but no xc- did get up to 2500 for some stall brief work so it's not all wet and miserable. It makes the fine days that much sweeter!20kt x-wind was a bonus to get some good one wheel landing practice in too...

 

 

[dazza 38]

Managed over 3 hrs yesterday but no xc- did get up to 2500 for some stall brief work so it's not all wet and miserable. It makes the fine days that much sweeter!20kt x-wind was a bonus to get some good one wheel landing practice in too...

I got in 1.7 hrs at boonah, this morning in the eaglet. Cloud 2500 It was the odd showers at home Robina left at 5.30 am, no rain from canungra west. Started raining driving home at canungra home at 12.30, since then the odd shower.(showers at the moment.Mt Tamborine seems to prevent alot of the coastal showers getting inland.

 

 

[Tomo]

I got in 1.7 hrs at boonah, this morning in the eaglet. Cloud 2500 It was the odd showers at home Robina left at 5.30 am, no rain from canungra west. Started raining driving home at canungra home at 12.30, since then the odd shower.(showers at the moment.Mt Tamborine seems to prevent alot of the coastal showers getting inland.

My instructor was going to duck over to Dunwich this morning to pick up an aircraft or something, but 35kt winds and showers blowing in from the sea made him change his mind... interesting if you didn't get strong winds over at Boonah?

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

We've had more than we need up here. Measured approaching 40+ inches so far at my property near Ingham since it started, and still it comes. Was planning for a fly this morning but no chance. I have been having to settle for the odd GA flight during the week at work, but it's hardly satisfiying enough. Will try again in the morning, but don't like my chances.

 

 

[Tomo]

We've had more than we need up here. Measured approaching 40+ inches so far at my property near Ingham since it started.

That's unbelievable Maj, we've had about 3 inches since it all started. It's as dry as chips here.... a bit greener, but dying very fast again.

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Sorry to rub it in Tomo, but I've got a 10" rain guage and it'll be full again on Monday I guarantee you, from last week and this weekend.

 

Many of the locals around here say it's a 'real' old time wet, and one of the best since the 50s or 60s for good soaking rain. If you have a look at todays BOM you can see that it is a long way from being over.

 

An article in todays Townsville Bulletin tells of a farmer finding 20 cattle all dead under a large tree. It looks like they were standing in water under the tree, and the tree got a lightening strike, killing the cattle also.

 

Granted I do live in a high-rain area up against a mountain, so if it's around we'll get it for sure. Funny thing is there are areas to our North and South that have got more rain than we have.

 

 

[dazza 38]

I got in 1.7 hrs at boonah, this morning in the eaglet. Cloud 2500 It was the odd showers at home Robina left at 5.30 am, no rain from canungra west. Started raining driving home at canungra home at 12.30, since then the odd shower.(showers at the moment.Mt Tamborine seems to prevent alot of the coastal showers getting inland.

Hi tomo, i had a slight cross wind today, about 10 kts,their is a major difference, between here, (home) five kays to the beach, than boonah maybe 90 km from the coast inland.It can be blowing a gail here, with coastal wind, but inland no problem .It was raining with the odd shower, but nothing major.It happens alot here, onshore wind.But nothing inland.I think he made a good decision not to go though, I headed east,got as far as Mt Tamborine, raining east, no go.Cheers:hug:

 

 

[Guest Walter Buschor]

Hi Tomo,

 

Thats unbelievable. 3 inches!!We had so much. Not complaining though as we do need more. I live in Witta on the Sonshine coast. Long may the rain last! Never mind that flying is off this weekend. XXXXes me off but the wet is better. There will be better flying days and I am dreaming of the next trip west or north.

 

" all good things come to thouse who wait !! "

 

fly safe

 

Walter

 

 

[Guest Sharp End]

Hi Tomo,

 

You had anymore in the last couple of days... even Birdsville is underwater?! :thumb_up:

 

S-E