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Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Old Oct 4th 2010, 5:15 am
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by Pollyana
Its tipped to be quite a long wet season this year. Floods last season were pretty bad at west, yet it looks like we are in for more of the same. And judging by the active hurricane season in the US, we could be in for a few cyclones
Cyclones coming as far south as Brisbane?
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by DunRoaminTheUK
Cyclones coming as far south as Brisbane?
Its not unknown, they usually become lows before they get this far south but its possible. Tropical cyclone Hamish early last year was on a course at one point to impact directly onto Brisbane, and you'll have heard of the floods of 1974, they were caused by Cyclone Wanda which actually came ashore just 150km north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast.
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by Pollyana
Its not unknown, they usually become lows before they get this far south but its possible. Tropical cyclone Hamish early last year was on a course at one point to impact directly onto Brisbane, and you'll have heard of the floods of 1974, they were caused by Cyclone Wanda which actually came ashore just 150km north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast.
So unusual rainy late winter/spring, dams already full, rainy summer predicted due to convergence of different weather patterns - your place running a book on whether we will see a 1974 repeat yet? Bet you're excited
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Originally Posted by fish.01
So unusual rainy late winter/spring, dams already full, rainy summer predicted due to convergence of different weather patterns - your place running a book on whether we will see a 1974 repeat yet? Bet you're excited
No, our real weather prediction expert is on leave for a couple of weeks and i'm placing no bets till he gets back - he's very rarely wrong about what a season will be like, and once something starts developing he's usually pretty spot on with its track too.
There has been a fair bit of muttering for a few weeks about it being likely to be a wet season though, and as the Atlantic hurricanes have been pretty active we are thinking the Coral Seas could go the same way. Also the floods which we have already had out west - Birdsville for instance - are very early.
The last season had a lot of water around, but was pretty quiet on the cyclone front, whih is ominous.......
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by asprilla
well, this morning in brisbane was clear and sunny, blue skies all around.

1:30pm and there are plenty of clouds rolling in, over mt coutha.

My prediction for this afternoon: rain.
It rained at 17:50.

They're already saying (on the weather channel that October is a very wet start too!)

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Well, we have had more than 3 times the usual rainfall for September up here in Cairns....some fr***in dry season!
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

we had better not whinge too much because soon it will be stinking hot then EVERYONE will be maoning about the heat ....
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by tinaj
we had better not whinge too much because soon it will be stinking hot then EVERYONE will be maoning about the heat ....

I'll try not to complain too much, having lived in the UK for the last 10 years.

I'll need some time to acclimatize.
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by Sally Simpson
Well, we have had more than 3 times the usual rainfall for September up here in Cairns....some fr***in dry season!
wow someone else on here from Cairns Hi Sally, we have been here a month think we came over with the rain on the plane

Octobers been pretty wet as well although nice today dancing in the rain Sunday in the pool and sunning today
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

But the records where lost in 1976 due to the flooding


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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

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But the records where lost in 1976 due to the flooding
Probably.
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Originally Posted by pink13
wow someone else on here from Cairns Hi Sally, we have been here a month think we came over with the rain on the plane

Octobers been pretty wet as well although nice today dancing in the rain Sunday in the pool and sunning today
Oh, so it's your fault is it?
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Exclamation FLOOD WARNING FOR THE SUNSHINE COAST STREAMS AND HINTERLAND

Issued at 11:06 PM on Friday the 8th of October 2010 by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Areas of heavy rain have been recorded in the Sunshine Coast hinterland tonight. Heaviest falls have been in the Yandina, Mapleton, Nambour to Eudlo area where totals of 75 to 135 millimetres have fallen in 6 hours to 11pm. Heavy rain is forecast to continue tonight in the Sunshine Coast area and nearby ranges, tending to extend slowly northwards.
Flash flooding of smaller streams and low lying areas is expected in the areas of heaviest rains tonight. Fast stream rises causing some moderate flooding are expected overnight and Saturday morning in the Sunshine Coast streams, especially in the upper Maroochy River and its tributaries including Petrie, Paynter and Eudlo Creeks. Fast stream rises are also expected tonight and Saturday in the upper Mary River tributaries.
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Default Re: FLOOD WARNING FOR THE SUNSHINE COAST STREAMS AND HINTERLAND

Originally Posted by Pollyana
Issued at 11:06 PM on Friday the 8th of October 2010 by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Areas of heavy rain have been recorded in the Sunshine Coast hinterland tonight. Heaviest falls have been in the Yandina, Mapleton, Nambour to Eudlo area where totals of 75 to 135 millimetres have fallen in 6 hours to 11pm. Heavy rain is forecast to continue tonight in the Sunshine Coast area and nearby ranges, tending to extend slowly northwards.
Flash flooding of smaller streams and low lying areas is expected in the areas of heaviest rains tonight. Fast stream rises causing some moderate flooding are expected overnight and Saturday morning in the Sunshine Coast streams, especially in the upper Maroochy River and its tributaries including Petrie, Paynter and Eudlo Creeks. Fast stream rises are also expected tonight and Saturday in the upper Mary River tributaries.


I can believe it! Non-stop rain here too. Not heavy though.
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Default Re: Queensland: Wettest September on record.

Have been up to Brisbane a couple of times in the last few weeks and it has chucked it down the whole time. Everyone keeps saying to me "its not normally like this". I am here at moment too as we decided hubby would fly up to join me as he has never been. Not looked out of the window yet.
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