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

It's that time of the year again and a sign that winter isn't far away.

'Ghost mushroom' season draws out droves of photographers.


Cheers.

Things are getting very wet just to the SE & S of here.

Record flooding in Taree as deluge continues on NSW coast.

Homes have been inundated and people are on their roofs amid record flooding on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.

The Manning River is flooding at a level never seen before at Taree, surpassing the 1929 record of six metres early this morning, and is still rising......

Port Macquarie received 238.8mm of rain yesterday and have so far recorded 91mm with an hour to go to finish the 24hr period while Tree recorded 279mm yesterday and have so far recorded 132mm. Both amounts are totally ridiculous with no end in sight.

Stay safe, dry and don't drive through floodwaters.

Well it looks like I've got another few days and nights of heavy traffic going past my front door with the coast road still closed due to flooding blocking the usual Brisbane to Sydney traffic. I would be nice though id those truck drivers would turn their exhaust brakes off as they go through the village.

Where my younger brother lives he got 480mm at his place in the hinterlands at the base of the escarpment (and he was late to the party) where as further south along it readings of 650-750mm were recorded breaking many records.

4 deaths have been reported so far with at least 1 person missing and only 1 of those deaths was at a house, the rest are all those who drove into flood waters, while the missing person was walking along inspecting the flood,

Stay safe and if it's flooded forget it.

Last month's torrential rain in northern Queensland has finally arrived at Lake Eyre (Kati Thanda) and reignites wildlife.

Stunning sights have unfolded as Australia’s largest lake fills for the first time in over a decade, attracting millions of animals in a rare burst of life.

Cheers.

Last month's torrential rain in northern Queensland has finally arrived at Lake Eyre (Kati Thanda) and reignites wildlife.

Stunning sights have unfolded as Australia’s largest lake fills for the first time in over a decade, attracting millions of animals in a rare burst of life.

What's wild, is that no one really knows how these birds [pelicans] find out the lake has water again. One day it's empty, and the next it's feathered chaos.

And now the southerly change is going through SA/Vic.

Near the border with SA.


Dust storm going through NW Victoria.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The results of last week's flooding down the hill.

Before and after images of NSW floods show impact on farmland across the state.

Specialised imagery equipment fitted to planes flying over flood-impacted NSW show the devastating impact the Mid North Coast floods have had on the state's farmland.

Australian location intelligence firm Nearmap took the photos using plane-attached cameras, in order to produce more detailed pictures than what is typically possible with satellite imagery.

M'Shenda Turner, the company's senior director of survey and geospatial content operations, said the flooding was "one of the most severe weather events we've seen in NSW in recent years"......

Well, last night we had a bit of rain.
Usual May average is 20mm, we managed to get 30mm. And further south in Katherine, their May average is 2mm. They got 180mm.

Rain in the Dry season isn't that unusual, but that amount, in 24hrs or less, at this time of the year? Un-precedented.

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Grant
Darwin NT

More pics of our great salt lake.

Australia’s biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of floodwater now flowing into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is raising hope, as well as river levels.

The terrorists tourists will be flocking out now to see the show.

Cheers.