Ouch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo1lXzUsfHE

Well Queensland is not the state to be in so far this year.

Queenslanders warned of floods, ‘triple digit rainfall’ after some areas recorded more than 240mm of rain in a day.

And with all the wet comes another big problem.

Doctors on high alert as melioidosis death toll rises to 20 in Queensland.

Queensland's unprecedented melioidosis outbreak has claimed another life, taking the death toll to 20.

An elderly man died in the Townsville health district on the weekend, the eighth death in the area since the start of the wet season on November 1.

Further north, 11 deaths have been recorded in the Cairns health district this year and one person died in Mackay in February.

As North Queensland faces the prospect of more flooding rain, authorities are continuing to urge vulnerable people to avoid mud and keep wounds clean.....

Stay safe and dry.

Well those experts didn't think that it'd happen, but now it looks like it will.

Cyclone likely to cross Western Australia's north coast in next 24 hours.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says a cyclone is likely to cross Western Australia's north coast in the next 24 hours, with residents in the Kimberley town of Derby and surrounding communities being asked to prepare.

Weather details released early on Friday morning show tropical low 28U developing north-west of the Kimberley, with the system expected to intensify and form into a tropical cyclone.

The system is about 400 kilometres north-west of the town of Derby and is moving slowly towards land.

The BOM says they expect a cyclone to form shortly before crossing the Kimberley coast, either on Friday evening or in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Should it form into a tropical cyclone, it is set to be a category one system when it reaches the mainland.......

Either way it's just feed more moisture across into the intense trough that's pounding this side of the country that so far has now end in sight on the 10day forecast.

My yard will be a jungle yet again before I'll be able to mow it. :-(

Meanwhile most of western Queensland and the NW of this state are turning into large lakes.

Stay safe and dry.

Feel free to ship as much water as you want up to California.

We'd take whatever's left. It's pretty dry here for spring.

If you want water come and get it. There's plenty about.

Record-breaking floods inundate outback Qld and rivers could peak again.


Weekend washout as Queensland deluge reaches NSW, tropical low swamps Kimberley.


And that tropical low is now TC Dianne.

Stay safe and dry.

The rain in QLD really has had a big impact out in the West of the state.

QLD road network status at the present time.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Woooha... it seems the most suitable vehicle for Queensland is some kind of hovercraft...

I could only drive 2hrs west of here ATM before I'd need a boat also on this side of the border.

https://www.livetraffic.com/

We got 70mm here just in the 1st 3 days of this month. At least we have a couple of sunny days ahead before more wet weather arrives.

Stay safe and dry.

Do you know if Jack Creek's farm is flooded ?

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Do you know if Jack Creek's farm is flooded ?

If it's Jacks' Creek near Narrabri, there are plenty of road closures in that area- all unsealed roads in Narrabri Shire are closed, but sealed roads are still open.
If it's Jack's Creek based in Tamworth, their property is at Willow Tree which is south of Tamworth. No flooding around there.

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Grant
Darwin NT