WOW, this rain is now getting ridiculous.  I seem to have penned that several times over the last couple of years but seriously enough is enough.  Yesterday had three of the most severe downfalls I have witnessed here and we finished with 132mm in the 24 hours to 9am Friday (that 132 actually fell between 9am and 7pm Thursday) after 24mm the previous 24 hours.  Fortunately there wasn't as much rain upstream in the Tweed River so a massive amount of water has been able to exit the property overnight into Friday and during the day today.

Thursday saw the first squall hit at around 10am and that dumped 14mm in even time.  Then another 60mm in the 12.30pm dump followed by another 60mm in the late afternoon event.

The photo below is the 10am dump and its effect on 10W green with the water sheeting off the green as it is supposed to and that was just the 14mm.  Hate to think what it looked like later in the day.  The 10am radar is below with the little squally system that dropped the 14mm right on top of us.

Water draining off 10W green.

  

Right on top of us.

I am always on the lookout for signs of approaching bad weather and the seagulls seem to be a pretty reliable source of information as they were all over 4 / 9W dam early yesterday.

They are pretty reliable?

 

I mentioned a little while back about a long range forecaster from the Sunshine Coast.  He predicted a "rainfall event" for August 21 about two months ago.  The scary one is that he has predicted "wettest period that could cause great flash floods is 27th August to 1st September".  It will be very interesting if that rings true as at this stage there is no one predicting any rainfall of any significance next week.  You have to subscribe to receive more detailed location based forecasts and if next week comes off I may well be subscribing.  The forecast area he covers seems to cover the east coast from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast.  Let's hope he's wrong??