Soooooo, how's this weather?

[Booney]

And that the residents are all safe and sound, obviously.

[dedja]

Funny that you mention that, after going up there the last couple of years and driving through places like Innisfail and staying at Mission Beach, we found ourselves looking back at the cyclone history, like Yasi and Larry.

Fairly resilient mob up there.

[Jimmy_041]

It’s not a how big’s my dick situation, 130km/hr winds and a storm surge on a king tide is nothing to sneeze at.

By the way, predicting a cyclone in Darwin around Christmas. Not sure how big*

I used to love the typhoons up in HK

The lightning shows were fantastic

They would hit the ships in the harbour
I asked a Captain, once, whether it did damage to them - he said not to the modern ones but the old ships could sustain damage to their electrics

[locky801]

Left Adelaide this morning, arrived Broken Hill this afternoon fine and 36C 6.00pm massive thunderstorm hits I give up

[Brodlach]

Left Adelaide this morning, arrived Broken Hill this afternoon fine and 36C 6.00pm massive thunderstorm hits I give up

Locky the new rain man

[dedja]

Lightning Rod

[Booney]

Forecast 24° for Xmas Day.

[locky801]

Forecast 24° for Xmas Day.

2 weeks ago they were saying was going to be the hottest Xmas day since 1945, do they really know

24 is good though wont be too badly hungover for the first session of the boxing day test

[Dutchy]

Forecast 24° for Xmas Day.

Boo, the 2 family shows we are going to have pools

[Booney]

Cairns had 230mm yesterday. Its had 91mm since 9am today. They could get another 500mm in the next day and a bit.

Black Mountain had 563mm in 24 hours.

[dedja]

Adelaide’s average yearly rainfall is about 540mm.

[Booney]

We had 60mm in 3 days last week.

[dedja]

[Booney]

Kuranda Railway Station 1374mm from Tuesday to Sunday.

[Booney]

Only on Sundays.

[Vamos]

Kuranda Railway Station 1374mm from Tuesday to Sunday.

Missus's bestie lives in Holloway's Beach, high chance they'll get evacuated. Expecting another 1000mm in the coming days apparently, Barron Falls is a sight to behold

[dedja]

Would be awesome to see Barron Falls, but faark going up that old railway in this weather.

[dedja]

So the forecast is 27 today, already 30 at 9:30am.

Hour by hour forecast, 23 at 9:30am, 30 at 1:30pm.

Have they already gone on holidays at BoM, except for the work experience kid?

[Booney]

Bairds, North of Daintree, has recorded 843mm from 9am Sunday - 9am Monday. This is a new Australian daily record for December.

*Edit*

3rd wettest day in recorded Australian history.

Top 48 hour totals (Saturday 9am to Monday 9am):
* Black Mountain 1291mm
* Bairds 1169mm
* Myola 1151mm
* Diwan 1064mm
* Whyanbeel Creek 1064mm
* Whyanbeel Valley 1061mm
* Stewart Creek Valley 1042mm
* Mossman 997mm
* Daintree Village 916mm
* Yandill 898mm
* Craiglie 819mm
* Mona Mona 799mm
* Port Douglas 744mm
EVENT Totals (Wednesday 9am to Monday 9am):
* Black Mountain 2165mm
* Bairds 2091mm
* Myola 2025mm
* Whyanbeel Valley 1934mm
* Yandill 1932mm
* Whyanbeel Creek 1927mm
* Mossman 1735mm
* Mona Mona 1634mm
* Stewart Creek Valley 1482 (no data recorded on day 1, with other areas seeing 500mm+ around the area).

[DOC]

So the forecast is 27 today, already 30 at 9:30am.

Hour by hour forecast, 23 at 9:30am, 30 at 1:30pm.

Have they already gone on holidays at BoM, except for the work experience kid?

Well those science types have been saying for 30 years that the weather is getting way harder to forecast due to some sort of global change.