It had been dry for a week. Forecasts for thunderstorms for last evening were withdrawn. At about 11pm we had the most incredible lightning and unexpected thunder storm.
Lightning and thunder were simultaneous indicating the lightning strikes were right here. The lights on the home next door of a young family came on, I guess the young kids were frightened. With it came the rain! In about 20 minutes all was peaceful again. There were 13mls in the rain gauge this morning! The pool is again topped up and the lawn which was showing signs of drying out is bright green again. It is another glorious sunny day as you can see from the photo left I took this morning!
I picked Trish up from the airport yesterday. She was tired and had the customary cold! Everytime we go to Melbourne, we seem to come home with a cold! The heat was a bit of a shock for her but did not stop her grabbing a long nap in the afternoon.
I have done my 10k bike ride again this morning. It really is pretty here early in the day before the sun gets high in the sky. As I type at 8:45 am the temperature is about 27 degrees with a top today of about 31. I seem to remember a recent summer saw us get only 3 days in Maroochydore where the temperature peaked at above 30 degrees. We have had more than that already this spring and early summer.
Upon my arrival back home it was into the pool for a cooling swim then onto washing bottles ready for another brew to be bottled, probably on Sunday!
A shopping day today to replenish the pantry!
And a few swims in the pool I guess!
My new router modem seems very stable and I haven't had any more problems with receiving PSTN calls. I will keep my fingers crossed on that one.
We have been having a play with the 'new' camera. It seems to have heaps of great features and takes a great shot. The Fuji V10 now charges batteries OK with a few 'adjustments'.
Just as I was saying how the new router/modem was I suddenly lost my internet connection this morning. The light saying I was connected to my ISP suddenly went out, the router/modem Voip light disappeared and I couldn't access the web. 15 minutes later I saw all lights were back on and all was OK again! Most likely this was an ISP problem, not the new router/modem.
Yesterday it got to 32 degrees and 70% humidity. The air-con went on at about 27 degrees just to dehumidify the air! A lot cooler today with a max about 27 degrees. A few showers and quite overcast! Right now (mid afternoon) it is about 25 degrees!
From there it was back home to a scorcher. The temp was about 33 in the backyard and there was hardly a breath of wind. Humidity was around 70% so much of the day was spent with a cool ale in hand and in the pool. I have had to crop this photo so as not to upset anyone's 'weak' stomach! I don't scrub up too good in DT's! ( a nickname for the kind of swimming shorts I was wearing).
It is expected to get to 30 again today but we can expect thundery showers throughout the day. This link will give you the Bureau Of Meteorology Radar website and you can see for yourself what is happening here right now. Caloundra where we live is right up near the top of the page, just under "Maroochydore'.
I washed the bottles for my next bottling and then we headed into town to the supermarket to replenish the pantry! I managed to hit the pool three times during the day for a cool off. We were sitting quietly beside the pool at about 3 pm when this large mass of storm clouds started to build in the west. A quick check of the weather radar on the internet confirmed we were in for another storm!
The rain began falling at about 4pm and then came the thunder and lightning show! The storm wasn't at all fierce but gave us the best part of an hour's steady rain and another 14ml (just over half an inch). The pool is now overflowing and the garden is certainly damp enough! This means we had had 1600mls for the year to date or a grand total of 64 inches of rain.
After yesterday afternoon's rain it is quite still this morning. The last few days have been breezy but not today. Still and warm means it is quite sticky! There are more ominous looking clouds about so we are in for another downpour later on! Any sun we had earlier has disappeared now.
Lightning and thunder were simultaneous indicating the lightning strikes were right here. The lights on the home next door of a young family came on, I guess the young kids were frightened. With it came the rain! In about 20 minutes all was peaceful again. There were 13mls in the rain gauge this morning! The pool is again topped up and the lawn which was showing signs of drying out is bright green again. It is another glorious sunny day as you can see from the photo left I took this morning!
I have done my 10k bike ride again this morning. It really is pretty here early in the day before the sun gets high in the sky. As I type at 8:45 am the temperature is about 27 degrees with a top today of about 31. I seem to remember a recent summer saw us get only 3 days in Maroochydore where the temperature peaked at above 30 degrees. We have had more than that already this spring and early summer.
Upon my arrival back home it was into the pool for a cooling swim then onto washing bottles ready for another brew to be bottled, probably on Sunday!
The weather continues warm here with most days a max of in the low 30's. Coupled with humidity, this makes for quite warm days, ideal for using the pool. The photo here shows my weather monitor and was taken at about 7:30 am this morning. As you can see the temp was about 27 both indoors and out. The humidity level was quite high too as it usually is each morning. We are expecting about 31 again today! The pool temperature this morning was a glorious 24 degrees. We have hot weather forecast for the next few days before we are expected to get more storms over the weekend. Welcome to summer!