Crikey it’s wet

[Litespeed]

On 08/03/2026 at 2:50 PM, facthunter said:

The Bats in the trees are Probably safe, unfortunately. Nev

Nothing wrong with bats, without them vast swathes of the country would lack many trees, they are our primary animal pollinators.

[willedoo]

The buggerup is supposed to hit the Cape tomorrow as a cat 5, wind gusts up to 315 kph they are saying. They're tracking it to hit the east coast just north of Coen and the west coast just south of Aurukun. 

[nomadpete]

I'm still awaitin to hear OME complain about all this dam rain......

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

I'm still awaitin to hear OME complain about all this dam rain......

It stopped at 10:00 am yesterday.  This morningI was able to do a load of washing and hang it out. It should be dry by lunchtime.

[facthunter]

What's Happening at the North of Australia Probably wont affect OME.Nev. 

[nomadpete]

46 minutes ago, old man emu said:

It stopped at 10:00 am yesterday.  This morningI was able to do a load of washing and hang it out. It should be dry by lunchtime.

Happy days!

[facthunter]

Take a holiday in North  Queensland. It will blow you away.  Nev

[old man emu]

I told you it was dry! I copped a dust storm today.

 

This afternoon a fast moving front passed over. The winds were very strong and had picked up dust from far away. I went outside and could feel the grit in the air. The sky was darkened, as if a thunderstorm as about to hit. I looked up into the dust cloud and was sure that I saw a bolt of lightning. I felt sorry for the horses in the paddock next door as they stood with their rumps to the wind and their tails blowing about.

 

As relief, after the dust cloud had passed it began to rain. Not torrentially, but enough to wet the top of the soil. That little bit will further help the feed in the paddock grow a bit more. At least there is some green where there has been brown for so long.

[onetrack]

We have been blown inside out here on the left coast for the last 4 days. It seems a very large and very intense high pressure system in the Bight is responsible for it. 

I can't recall such vicious and constant SE/E winds for so many days, in a long time. But this afternoon, the wind died away to virtually nothing, and it is a total relief to be able to do something outside without getting turned inside out. 

 

Edited Thursday at 01:12 PM by onetrack

[old man emu]

The usual paths of the pressure systems really seem to have been out of whack this year. Also the strength of the winds has been incredible. It seems that every morning the news reports lots of storm damage in places that never seemed to get it before. Victoria is coping it and Sydney has been plastered. Even the most recent tropical cyclone moved in a direction contrary to the usual. I wonder what winter will be like.

[onetrack]

There is no defined path for high and low pressure systems, just a general Eastwards movement at lower latitudes and Easterly at higher latitudes. 

Cyclone Narelle isn't unusual in its path, many cyclone before it have hit Qld, gone through the N.T., crossed W.A., then reformed in the Indian Ocean off the Kimberly coast, and then travelled South.

 

Narelle has clobbered Onslow, Exmouth and Learmonth and it look like Coral Bay is going to take a hammering. Learmonth and Dampier radar systems have gone down, Learmonth recorded 200kmh winds, Barrow and Thevenard Islands recorded 160-170kmh winds and a lot of places have had 150kmh winds. Plenty of rain with it, Learmonth has had over 200mm and Karratha over 100mm.

 

We're getting a bit of light rain in Perth, as the Indian Ocean is producing a lot of moisture from the cyclones warmth, and it's coming down from the N and NW. The W.A. wheatbelt has had more rain than Perth, and the inland areas NE of the Wheatbelt, the Murchison and Goldfields have had some decent rain. There's more to come over the next 3 days. 

[old man emu]

All I've got is  10/10 cloud and wind. I wouldn't mind if that cloud gave up its moisture.

[onetrack]

We've had 24mm of rain today (since about 6:30AM), a very nice refreshing amount of moisture. There's a little more to come this afternoon, in this rain band drifting in off the Indian Ocean, and tomorrow, we may get some more rain from the remnants of Cylone Narelle as it makes its way through the W.A. Wheatbelt.

 

Narelle crossed the W.A. coast about 75kms S of Coral Bay as a Category 4 cylone about 1:00PM today (Friday 27th), but has now decayed to a Category 3 as it heads SSE to cross the Gascoyne River between Gascoyne Junction and Carnarvon about 7:00PM tonight.

Gusts of up to 170kmh are likely to hit Carnarvon this afternoon and evening. There will be fruit and vegetable losses in Carnarvon, Carnarvons banana trees are susceptible to very strong winds.

 

Narelle has picked up speed, and is now travelling at 33kmh (previously 18-20kmh). The W.A. Wheatbelt will start to feel the effects of the remnants of the Cylone as it degrades to a very strong low pressure system tomorrow. 

[onetrack]

Well, Narelle has pretty much burnt itself out, as it heads through the Southern Goldfields of W.A. as an ex-tropical depression. We've had a very nice 66mm of rain in Perth since early yesterday morning, nice steady soaking rain, and it's pretty much finished as far as the rain from Narelle goes.

Most the W.A. wheatbelt has received between about 25mm to 40mm, a great start to the cropping season. I haven't got any recent news on storm damage in places such as Carnarvon (which recorded a wind gust of 133kmh yesterday afternoon, I guess quite a few banana trees will have been wiped out.

Exmouth and Coral Bay have suffered some moderate levels of storm damage, but the buildings in those places are built to withstand cyclones, so they generally survive O.K.

Learmonth copped a total of over 350mm in rainfall, so pretty wet there, some of the other places down the coast didn't get a lot of rain, Carnarvon only got 11.6mm in total.