It may be late August, but we are already staring down the barrel at potentially the first severe storm outbreak of the 2022/2023 season. Severe storms aren’t unheard of in August or September (just remember back to September 30 last year when there were tornadoes...
What is a La Nina Weather Pattern & What are its impacts?? ENSO PATTERNS:ENSO is the abbreviation of the phrase ‘El Nino-Southern Oscillation”. This pattern is a large driver for long term weather conditions across Australia (as well as many other countries across the world) and...
Over the 2021/2022 calendar period, there has been a very distinct influx in curiosity by the general public surrounding chemtrails, geoeningeering, government man-made weather phenomena, controlled weather etc. A large portion of this has been brought on by a ‘want’ for understanding why continuous flood...
Cumulonimbus clouds are considered the absolute kings of the cloud world. Cumulonimbus clouds are commonly known as thunderstorm clouds, and while the bases of these clouds sit between 1,100 and 6,500ft usually.. they are the ONLY cloud in the world that takes up the entirety...
After 12 days of non basically non stop rain, it appears as though the event is finally over - from that perspective, as the flooding is still ongoing and will be for days, maybe even weeks in some areas. While we will have a full...
Over the course of the last 24 hours, further heavy rain has impacted the Paluma region whilst the indication of increased rainfall over the Whitsunday and Central Coast region has finally (from a forecast accuracy perspective) come to fruition. Rainfall across the Townsville region thankfully...
The rainfall totals that keep on keeping on.. even when it seemed like the bulk of it was over, another 50-150mm has fallen over the Townsville area overnight with up to 250mm in some isolated areas. Thankfully for those further South, the predicted 200mm+ didn’t...
Just as things were calming down, a dangerous storm developed over the Bluewater region which has lead to another night of catastrophic flooding in the region! This has lead to both Paluma and Upper Bluewater surpassing the 2000mm mark for this rain event. Due to...
Over the past 24 hours we saw what was inevitably the nail in the coffin for the Dam as more than 400mm fell over the Dam Catchment area leading to the inevitable 100% gate opening as the volume of water that was going into the...
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve seen the effects of extreme rainfall rates over a localised area in a short to moderate period of time. This was indicated by Ingham recording over 500mm in a 24 hour period, most of that falling after sunset, with...