Steady Rain Easing

We had a wet day yesterday with a further 39 mls into the gauge. That gives us a 89 ml total for the two days. Unlike other recent rain in our area of Queensland, this rain fell right across the SE Corner, so most areas around Brisbane had falls around the 60 ml mark. Even Brisbane's dams received some rainfall above 50 mls. As it has been so dry, most of this rain just soaked into the ground with very little run off recorded. The rain is now moving off the coast as this screenshot shows.

We tried a little shopping yesterday, albeit totally unsuccessful. The items we went to lo0k at were sold out or hadn't arrived yet so we have had to place orders. One of the items is a very cheap and quite small clothes dryer. On the few days we are unable to dry our washing, a little low cost clothes dryer would be very handy. In summer, when it is quite humid, a clothes dryer would be handy to completely dry out the bed sheets which had been washed and then put on the line.

Today we are expecting a max temp of 18 degrees. The rain is being pushed to sea by a cold dry south westerly wind coming in off central Australia. Hopefully we will get the sunshine back today!

Friends Russell and Irene were planning to take their caravan from Charters Towers in Northern Queensland to Townsville today so they should be well set up in Townsville by 4 pm this afternoon.