I happened to take a quick look at the rain gauge about 3;30 am on Saturday morning and saw that we had 8mls during the night to that time.Then the downpour started again with heavy showers until dawn. During a break in the showers just before 8 am I was able to tip 60 mls from the rain gauge. Then it started again and in the next 50 minutes a further 43 mls fell. We had had over 4 inches of rain in about 5 hours.
As I type we have had about 290mls (or just under 12 inches of rain) since Thursday. This continuous heavy rain has completely flooded our street Saturday morning. This photo looks towards the end of our court and shows the walkway through to the main road. There is a 'valley' just through there about 1 metre deep so the water in that area is over a metre (4'). The rain stopped about 9 am with a further 43mls in the gauge. Again the pool did not overflow. There is a small overflow outlet but with 12 inches of rain, I have lost 12 inches of salt water through the overflow. The pool did need a bag of salt yesterday.
When I returned from my Computer Club Meeting there was no sign of any flooding at all! The day developed into a beautiful sunny day, so much so our guest Rainy had a swim in the pool late yesterday.
We have more heavy rain forecast for later today and it may continue to be showery until Thursday!
Rainy flies back to Melbourne today after spending a week with us. The weather hasn't been kind for her visit here but the ladies did have a great time together.
Daylight Saving finished overnight in the other east coast states so our times are all back to normal again.
I keep a copy of my rainfall figures online HERE The sheet is divided into 4 quarters so you may have to click on Q2 (bottom left hand corner of the screen) to get April's records.
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