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Showing posts with label Brisbane Rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brisbane Rain. Show all posts
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Christmas in July
Celebrating the end - forever - of Brisbane waer restrictions. Never again level 6, and 140 litres pp per day (although Brisbanites have only been using 129 litres pp per day) Once the water grid gets into commission, woot!
Keep it raining Huey!
And Merry Christmas to you all.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Huge low offshore
There is going to be a LOT of rain this weekend, woo hoo. Just don't flood my downstairs bedroom please.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
I drove in this yesterday :(
I had to drive to the Gold Coast to meet a bride and groom - I am shooting their wedding in April. The rain was blindingly heavy, I had to use a 'rabbit car' ahead of me, following and hoping like shite he/she was a good driver. It's too dangerous to pull over to the side of the road, (what if someone was using ME as a 'rabbit?') and the rian wasn't going to stop or ease, so I had to keep moving, albeit a lot slower than normal.
When cars did shoot past at 110kms, I just shook my head and thought "mate, now you are scaring the pants off me, driving like that, madness!".
You just have to drive to conditions, and these conditions were appalling, but I got there in the end, whew.
The radio said the Gold Coast area had received 150 mms of rain (6 inches)in the past couple of hours! I know, think I saw every drop!!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Level Six water retrictions delayed, whew.
THE Queensland Water Commission says heavy rainfall has enabled level six water restrictions to be put off until late November or early December.
The restrictions were due to come in as early as next month.
But it would take up to a week before the full impact on dam levels was known, the commission said today.
The announcement came after it was revealed a new rainfall record had been set at Rainbow Beach on the Sunshine Coast, near where an Indonesian sailing ship became grounded in heavy weather yesterday.
Weather bureau climate records meteorologist Claire Webb said 713mm fell there in the 24 hours to 9am today.
This was more than three times the previous total of 216mm for the whole month of August set in 1998, Ms Webb said.
"It's amazing," she said. "There certainly is some flooding up there."
At nearby Mt Bilewilam, north of Noosa, 689mm fell in the same period to 9am today and at Coops Corner, 706mm was recorded.
At Tewantin, near Noosa, 310mm fell to 9am today, more than four times the previous record daily total of 72.2mm set on August 19, 1989.
Senior forecaster Jeff Callaghan said the current low pressure system over south-east Queensland was a freak event, not seen since the 1800s.
The restrictions were due to come in as early as next month.
But it would take up to a week before the full impact on dam levels was known, the commission said today.
The announcement came after it was revealed a new rainfall record had been set at Rainbow Beach on the Sunshine Coast, near where an Indonesian sailing ship became grounded in heavy weather yesterday.
Weather bureau climate records meteorologist Claire Webb said 713mm fell there in the 24 hours to 9am today.
This was more than three times the previous total of 216mm for the whole month of August set in 1998, Ms Webb said.
"It's amazing," she said. "There certainly is some flooding up there."
At nearby Mt Bilewilam, north of Noosa, 689mm fell in the same period to 9am today and at Coops Corner, 706mm was recorded.
At Tewantin, near Noosa, 310mm fell to 9am today, more than four times the previous record daily total of 72.2mm set on August 19, 1989.
Senior forecaster Jeff Callaghan said the current low pressure system over south-east Queensland was a freak event, not seen since the 1800s.
Friday, August 10, 2007
SE Qld dam levels fall below 17%
Posted 1 hour 29 minutes ago
Map: Brisbane 4000
SEQWater says Brisbane's dam levels are the lowest they have been since Wivenhoe was built in 1987.
Operations manager Rob Drury says the collective storage of the three main dams in south-east Queensland is below 17 per cent.
The Queensland Water Commission says level six restrictions will start when dam levels drop to 15 per cent, which is expected late next month or early in October.
Mr Drury says the dams would need a huge amount of rain to get back to healthy levels.
"Certainly to get up 5 or 10 per cent we'd need at least 100, 150 millimetres of rain over a couple of days and to fill something like Wivenhoe, we'd need between 300 and 400 millimetres of rain over a matter of two or three days," he said.
Map: Brisbane 4000
SEQWater says Brisbane's dam levels are the lowest they have been since Wivenhoe was built in 1987.
Operations manager Rob Drury says the collective storage of the three main dams in south-east Queensland is below 17 per cent.
The Queensland Water Commission says level six restrictions will start when dam levels drop to 15 per cent, which is expected late next month or early in October.
Mr Drury says the dams would need a huge amount of rain to get back to healthy levels.
"Certainly to get up 5 or 10 per cent we'd need at least 100, 150 millimetres of rain over a couple of days and to fill something like Wivenhoe, we'd need between 300 and 400 millimetres of rain over a matter of two or three days," he said.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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