Wet Ready

The weather forecast has been updated since I last posted.  It now will be a category 2 Cyclone that crosses the coast around 450k's north of us around 4 am Friday.  The fiercest area of the cyclone will be the small area directly around the cyclone's eye. 

So we are quite a long way away from where the most intense action will be.

The system is then expected to lose power considerably and develop into a Tropical Low and head south.  The wind will slowly ease but there will be lots of rainfall, up to 300mls over a couple of days is expected here.

We have had this sort of rain before.  Drainage improvements we have made in the backyard with the concrete area and drain we expect we are going to be fine.

As the photo shows, the outdoor chairs are stacked, the sun blinds along the back of the house are up, the Waeco is safely packed away and we believe we are ready.

The sky is quite grey and we had 13mls from showers yesterday and overnight.  That is 1/2 an inch in the 'old scale'. I didn't manage a bike ride this morning as you would expect.

It isn't cold, it was 25º first thing this morning outside. It won't get much warmer as the rain is expected to slowly increase as the day goes on.  Right now we get a short sharp shower every 30 minutes or so.  That will develop into steady rain as night falls.

So it is front of the TV I will go.  There is a cricket game on TV today so I reckon I should be right!