Wet Wet Wet

We have survived the recent deluge here without too many problems. When we have a strong wind and heavy rain we tend to get a small amount of seepage through the "Beer Garden" sliding door and that happened during the heavy rain yesterday and overnight.

It has almost stopped now with just some drizzle outside at 8 am in the morning. It was so wet yesterday morning I didn't take my rainfall reading until around 10 am, a little later than usual. Since 10 am yesterday I have tipped a total of 293 mls out of the rain gauge. If you add the 52 mls from overnight Wednesday/Thursday we have a total just short of 350mls or 14" in the old scale.

Over the past fortnight we have had 549mls or 22" of rain.

When you looked at the weather radar yesterday you saw a storm hanging over the Sunshine Coast between Maroochydore and just south of us, a distance of around 20 or so kilometres. The radar had it at yellow and light green signifying very heavy falls. However despite being such heavy rain, the Pay TV only went off for around 10 minutes. You would expect the storm to move on after 30 minutes or so. This time it just sat there for hours and hours dropping especially heavy rain on the small coastal strip. While we got around 12", Nambour, around 15k's inland, received 2" so localized was yesterday's rain.

Today we expect to see the sun again and there will be a top temp of 29 degrees. As the photo shows the pool has fallen from full back to its peak depth with the 'pool overflow' working well for us. Needless to say the pool again needs some salt as the level has fallen with so much pool water overflowing out into the street and out to sea via the storm water drains.

Our street didn't flood to anywhere near the extent it can do. The road out the front was a few inches underwater but a brief lull in the heavy showers allowed excess water to get away and leave the road clear.

I have updated our 2012 online rainfall totals sheet, you can get to it HERE.