Rain... flamin' Rain !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jarro]

Didn't get anything here

[poidda]

Baton down the hatches! AGAIN!
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.html

[AndyP]

Hmmm, the drive back to the Sunshine Coast might need to be delayed.

[henno]

Yet again, everything has all but fizzled out before it reached me. I would have liked a bit of heavy rain actually.

[CobraSS]

pissing down here

[henno]

Redcliffe seems to be getting hammered at the moment.

[gazgolf1]

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/ID...oop.shtml#skip

rain coming.

[henno]

Thanks for the heads-up. Just quickly whipped around with the lawn-mower in anticipation.

[PeteyD]

Beauty, saves me putting the hose in the pool!!

[Dazza]

Still nothing up here. Monsoon can't be too far off.

[BrisVegas]

we're just copping the latest storm front.....

[Dazza]

Damn! Thats huge Brisvegas.
We managed 63mm last night, with some more heading this way as I type.

[shazza_rs]

hows the glades go with water???? palmy was wet today under foot.

[Eag's]

Well it just shat down here for the last 30mins with a spectacular lightening show

[Fishman Dan]

29/12/08

Pic 1 - The storm approaches. At this time it could stay out to the west, miss us to the south, or..... The key factor is that puffy white band of cloud.

Pic 2 - Looks like it has turned in our direction.

Pic 3 - Closing in.... the blue/green colour of the sky behind it isn't pleasant.

Pic 4 - It's a matter of time. The wind has turned to come from that direction, and freezing cold.

Pic 5 - Can you count to 10? About now an absolutely massive lightning strike hits the top of the hill behind us.

Pic 6 - This is 10 minutes later. Rain is coming in horizontal, and I've retreated into the car port to snap this shot. I was soaked within 10 seconds.

Needless to say, but I was shitting myself as it hit.

[Fishman Dan]

29/12/08

1 - About 30 minutes after the main storm hit.

2 - Another 5 minutes on, just as the sun was setting. The gold colour is another light shower coming through.

[mike]

Man, that looks nasty.

Where are these taken, Dan ? You got acreage ?

[dc68]

NSW North Coast- Lismore area. I believe Dan's better half hails from the area.



Nice shots Yiddo. ****in scary I would think.

[markTHEblake]

Pic 1 - The storm approaches. At this time it could stay out to the west, miss us to the south, or..... The key factor is that puffy white band of cloud.

Great pics, Thats a fairly common type of storm in SEQ, I havent seen em anywhere else. They remind me of a big mushroom, low puffy clouds around the edge and inside the cloud is higher but just a dense translucent black.

Whenever you see one of these buggars, you know whats coming, batten down the hatches! If you ever remember a oneday cricket match at the Gabba, when the curator raced onto the ground with the covers before the umpires had even stopped play, cos he saw one of these mothers coming. He got the pitch covered with only seconds to spare.

[Fishman Dan]

Mike - The in-laws are on about 300 acres about 10 km's north-west of Casino in the north-east corner of NSW.

Like I said, I was crapping myself and everyone had gone inside to get a fresh XXXX Gold, and then go nowhere near any windows. The dairy (about 150m from where I took these photo's) is only half standing these days from a storm about 3 years ago. I expected something similar.

[Grunt]

Are we all sick of the Rain yet?

75mm of rain since Saturday. More heavy falls due today.

[shazza_rs]

get over it.... try living in NQ

[Grunt]

get over it.... try living in NQ

But I don't and if I did I would be used to it as it is in an area that has almost Monsoonal rainfall in the climate.

[shazza_rs]

but i bet you'd still whinge about it

[Flowergirl]

We'll take it - please!!!!!!!!!!! It has been so long since we had any decent rain.