How's the weather?

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

Cooler change over here at the moment aswell, high 20's to low 30's forecast for this week.
The humidity in the mornings has been a killer though, its at 90% as I type.
The car didn't enjoy it either on our run up the coast this morning. It was no where near as snappy as normal and the Weber's were lacking their distinct bark.

Similar weather forecast here but no humidity.
Actually wiped dew off the windscreen this morning. Beaut 8 over night temps atm.

[HIPO]

Finally getting a proper cool change later.... plenty of humidity of late, with the hot spell coming right across W.A. from the N/W.

[Rallye Sport]

I'd say summer has finally passed over here. Windy with cooler days and nights.
I've noticed the Plain trees at our local shops are starting to change colour and get ready to drop their leaves.

[mad2]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

I'd say summer has finally passed over here. Windy with cooler days and nights.
I've noticed the Plain trees at our local shops are starting to change colour and get ready to drop their leaves.

welll ....... i think it IS definitely autumn maybe late autumn ......... it's a raining the cats & dogs! no yet

[fatgas]

51mm in the gauge from 4pm to about 2am today.

[Citroënbender]

Rather a lot of rain. Got all my driving and shopping done yesterday, can stay home and watch the backyard creek while eating toasties.

[HIPO]

Would like some of those eastern states mm please.... wanna start some paddock maintenance & an RC track with my mate John D !

[Mechan1k]

we had 90mm from about 1pm yesterday afternoon till now.
Not as much rain here as predicted so far for today

[Rallye Sport]

Watching the flooding on the news tonight, hope you guys are all safe and ok over there.
Meanwhile its dust and tumbleweed over here, 12mm since last October and nothing forecast anytime soon. Sad to see alot of mature trees in the national park dying off.

[Citroënbender]

Wagaramba Dam is full, Windsor bridge looks set to go under again. A 2022 flashback in the making…

[fatgas]

^ How much rain has NoseBeers city had?

[roKWiz]

All that ex cyclone rain that swept its way inland stalled by the time it got just north of here.
8mm light rain Friday night is all we got.

Watching the radar, showed it split, most kept running down the coast while some moved over central Victoria.
Certainly was an unusual weather pattern in the area.

[five 7]

Balmy 31 here in Broome today with Olga just off the coast.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

All that ex cyclone rain that swept its way inland stalled by the time it got just north of here.
8mm light rain Friday night is all we got.

Watching the radar, showed it split, most kept running down the coast while some moved over central Victoria.
Certainly was an unusual weather pattern in the area.

Part of that split ended up coming this way. We got 36mm to 9 am today: more than we got for the entirety of Feb and March combined.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Wagaramba Dam is full, Windsor bridge looks set to go under again. A 2022 flashback in the making…

Windsor bridge was safe by less than a metre, but dry is dry. Water is steadily receding in the Hawkesbury.

[Citroënbender]

The “Berm” (as Clouseau would say) dropped its severe thunderstorm warning for metropillocking Sydney but we’re still getting a pretty decent rainstorm with thunder, lightning, tiny hailstones.

[Citroënbender]

Greater Sydney: Are the mountains colouring up yet for Autumn (particularly Bell’s Line of Road)? Going to take an elderly friend for a drive when they do.

[roKWiz]

Bus loads of Autumn leaves tours around here atm.
Sunny perfect weather at 23 deg for it.

[jaydee]

Perfect weather in Broome, 21 overnight, 35 during the day, very mild humidity.
Walk along Cable Beach ( I'm not going in, a croc has been hanging around for 2 weeks).
Perfectly good pool at the resort.

[HIPO]

Weeks of beautiful sunny, mild low 20's .... but want some bloody rain please!

[FTE217]

yep looking like gonna be a long winter here in Syd and rain rain rain with some breaks now and then.
Map showing next Tuesday we expect a sunny cloudy day lol........
Mind you it is what it is can deal with it others have far worse or like over yonder west f all rain and dry.
The wonders of the world.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by HIPO

Weeks of beautiful sunny, mild low 20's .... but want some bloody rain please!

I feel “rain guilt” - it’s really not that needed here and very conscious of where it might be more useful. Starting to look at what I can do out of Sydney rather then gnash my tensioning teeth in frustration for days.

[FTE217]

hehe too true CB, we don't need more rain but sadly will whereas as always it hardly falls where its really needed and IF it does come down in mass where needed wash's away too quick instead of providing a good soaking down deep.

Where I live and all the rain/moisture I know we will suffer some gums giving way and cause residents damage and heart ache soon enough I reckon.
The bush walk entry right near my place to land cove river is pumping up leech's, thankfully frogs geckos etc are active.
I'm seeing pics from walking residents of some healthy looking mushy's growing away, I said no special magic dinner offerings thanks lol.....

[Citroënbender]

We’ve just had the big trees thinned and deadwooded, it’s responsible tree ownership and covers us well against any freak event where one smites a neighbour. I was a bit puzzled by the large tree (a eucalyptus) which fell a couple of days ago in Avalon; on the pictures it seemed to have very little root plate - wondered if it had been root-pruned for landscape or building works.

[FTE217]

CB I agree re the Av one, that should have been taken down long ago before that happenned, you could see right near the house, paving or landscaping done it had certainly had chopped many of its foundation roots.
Accident waiting to happen, stupid is stupid and you know why ? $$$$'s.
I get that but having your fam in bed asleep with the silent/suddenly to happen tree fall your mad.
I paid pre covid 14k to get a monster down, even though it was well rooted it was close enough to cause massive harm one day or night.
I travel quite a bit and to know more rain/storms are occuring and that bugga fell on the house whilst away I would never have forgiven myself.
We've trimmed and taken down many risk factors, can't trust a gum no matter how strong they look.

[roKWiz]

Avalon/Clareville area seems to be the place for severe storm damage. That narrowing peninsula must have a serious effect on wind patterns running in from the south west.

I've been there 5 times in the past fixing stonework from large fallen trees.

[Citroënbender]

I think the area’s poor soil/subsoil is harder for trees to get a grip into, then they are forced upwards by needing light from overshadowing buildings, the built structures also channel/deflect breezes. Less buildings and more thickets of trees would be the ideal - but it won’t happen. Limb drop from redgums and bluegums seems to happen more after heavy pruning (large limbs, back to the trunk) in hot summers, I can’t quite work out the correlation but have seen it happen enough times.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

I think the area’s poor soil/subsoil is harder for trees to get a grip into, then they are forced upwards by needing light from overshadowing buildings, the built structures also channel/deflect breezes. Less buildings and more thickets of trees would be the ideal - but it won’t happen. Limb drop from redgums and bluegums seems to happen more after heavy pruning (large limbs, back to the trunk) in hot summers, I can’t quite work out the correlation but have seen it happen enough times.

The 5 large river reds at my place are more likely to drop limbs towards the end of summer without the wind. The trees soak up most of the moisture in the soil over the first part of the season.
When its wetter than normal the trees are good but after continually hot, dry conditions they will drop.

That's why up along the NSW coastline over Summer with the regular rainfall, cutting grass happens more often with no leaves on the ground, whereas its the opposite here, the heat tells the trees to take all the water and shed bark and leaves. The ground is left with no grass because of this, so I'm left with picking up leaves and not having to cut grass in Summer.

$ydney's sandstone layering should allow plenty of bite for tree roots to hook into but being sedimentary rock, it will easily part under high wind stress due to the cities well known southerly busters particularly along that funnel strip of Pittwater. Sailing in that body of water can be super sketchy at times.

[Citroënbender]

It’s typically late December here. 35°+ day, no afternoon breeze then at about 4:30-7PM (DST) “CRAAACK!”…