Pollyana

For people in the Capricornia, Wide Bay and Burnett, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Southeast Coast and parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields and Maranoa and Warrego Forecast Districts.
Issued by the Bureau of Met at 12:44 pm Tuesday, 28 September 2010.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Warwick, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Dalby, Maroochydore, Roma, Gympie, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Emerald, Rockhampton, Kingaroy, Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi.

More localised:

Thunderstorms are moving towards the east. They are forecast to affect Beaudesert by 1:45 pm and Mudgeeraba and Canungra by 2:15 pm.


Damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones are likely over next few hours

There are some nasty cells currently near Beaudesert and Highvale turning from red to black and moving east.


Current 256 k radar from Mt Staplyton

DadAgain

Oops - couldve been a bad decision to ride to work today! I might be getting wet this arvo

Pollyana

You certainly could

Pollyana

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones over the next several hours in the Herbert and Lower Burdekin and parts of the Northern Tropical Coast and Tablelands, Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders, Central Coast and Whitsundays and Central Highlands and Coalfields, Capricornia, Wide Bay and Burnett, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Southeast Coast and parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields and Maranoa and Warrego districts. Locations which may be affected include Warwick, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Dalby, Maroochydore, Roma, Gympie, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Emerald, Rockhampton, Kingaroy, Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi.


Thunderstorms today have already produced wind damage (trees uprooted) and flash flooding at Beaudesert at around 1:30pm.

Batten down your hatches guys.......

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Where have all those Queenslanders gone who were boasting about their weather?

Pollyana

I love it, gonna be a busy shift

asprilla

There's a fair sized storm coming together and heading towards Caboolture/Narangba.

Dare I say it, but a few uprooted trees, some hail damage and a bit of localised flooding won't really do much to mess up that area....

DeadVim

I'm loving it, that's my neck of the woods

Got to have the storms to balance the heat/humidity, it's the one thing that makes Brisbane summers bearable for me

Pollyana

Definitely. Without the storms it really WOULD be unbearable

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Probably less bearable if one takes your roof off.

Pollyana

Wouldn't be surprised at all if there are a few of those reported later. Its that disaster management attitude coming through I'm afraid, having to balance the detatchment of the job with the sympathy for those affected. In the midst of the response work one can't afford to lose the objectivity, its after the shift when one's trying to wind down that it becomes a more subjective issue. Very difficult to manage both at once - for instance the night of the Brisbane flooding after the Gap storm weekend, I was trying to organise someone to rescue a friend's disabled mum, whilst also trying to be totally objective and coordinate the wider response across the region.

How did you fare in the storms down your way the other week? We had some pretty nasty reports through from around your neck of the woods.

DeadVim

Yup, that's the lottery of life ... seem to be scooting around us today ...

Pollyana

Yeah, you seem to be in that clear corridor today, you might get away with it.

The lottery of storm damage never ceases to amaze me, same as with cyclones. One house gets trashed, while next door can be untouched. Un rhyme or reason to it, and no way of either predicting or preventing it.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Plenty of trees down around us but we escaped any damage to the house... and bizarrely, given that we get power cuts quite regularly, we never lost power once during the storm either.

Just been out dealing with the first assault from bees on the house. We get them every year. Bloody pain.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Looks like Byron Bay is just about to cop it.