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Re: The Weather
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2010, 07:30:18 AM »
1917-19, mid 30,s,Early 50's, Early to mid 70,s, early 90's and now 2010-?. It is a fairly consistent cycle if you ask me. Some of these events are bigger and some are smaller but they always happen. This one however is shaping up to be one of the big ones(maybe 1 in 50 or 1in 100)

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2010, 08:00:43 AM »
I moved up here in 1985.  For the first few months I lived in Ipswich and worked in Darra.  I drove a Suzuki Sierra with no roof.  Remember when there were traffic lights all along the old concrete Ipswich Rd?  I'd knock off work at 3.00pm during that summer and drive to Ipswich.  Most afternoons a thunder storm would hit around 3.15pm, often while stuck at the lights at Goodna.  I rember one day a lady offered me a bar of soap while I was stopped there.  I'm not sure if she could smell me, or if I just looked drenched.  If you leave the bungs out of a Suzuki, the water flows out pretty quickly.  It was nothing to get two inches of rain most afternoons back then.  I'm on the "Cyclic" side here.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2010, 08:24:19 AM »
That's funny, Dale. If one hasn't experienced it, ( myself) it's hard to fathom.
There's a tea-tree swamp not far from Gladstone- water marks 8 ft up the trees. I've never seen it hold a drop of water, but it once did. I'll be waiting for that time to return.
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Re: The Weather
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2010, 09:27:31 AM »
Wetest dry season across the north on record came the call on the radio the other day. Some examples from across this way

Oombulgurri 221.8mm; its average is 20.6mm
 
Kalumburu 176.2mm; its average 28.0mm
 
Faraway Bay 168mm; its average 29.1mm
 
Mt Amhurst 168.6mm; its average 37.9mm
 
Argyle Airport 111.2mm; its average 19.3mm
 
Kununurra checkpoint 78.8mm; its average 10.5mm
 
Country Downs 228.8mm; its average 40.2mm
 
Derby Airport 270.8mm; its average 37.6mm
 
Dampier Downs 225.9mm; its average 40.1mm
 
Fitzroy Crossing airport 129.2mm; its average 27.2mm
 
West Roebuck 175.2mm; its average 50.3mm
 
 
 

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2010, 10:03:07 AM »
This weather is interesting  -  being new to qld its not what I expected ..... specially this time of year as I type it,s bucketing down
Back in Sydney  -  growing up during the 70's and early 80's ..... there were at least 3 times that South Creek flooded at St Marys cutting the main western rail line  -   which was great because I couldn't get to school. 
During the mid 80's  Warragamba dam was open at least twice ....... we used to fish below the dam & catch some cracker trout till the spot was fished out ....Also we would fish the floodwaters at the mouth of the Hawkesbury river for Jewfish  -  casting feather jigs ....... awesome stuff
During the same period I was a mad golfer and it was virtually impossible to get a game .Courses were closed for weeks because they were bogs and the fairways couldn't be cut  ...... then when you did get a game , by going up the blue mountains ( sandstone) or the coastal sand belt courses  -  you would loose heaps of golf balls because they would plug and be gobbled up.   I think that was 1986.
I cannot remember anything like that during the next 25 years......... Warragamba dam has not gone over the new spillway nor have they opened the gates.
Certainly is a long cycle

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2010, 06:21:51 PM »
There's a tea-tree swamp not far from Gladstone- water marks 8 ft up the trees. I've never seen it hold a drop of water, but it once did. I'll be waiting for that time to return.
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Those trees have probably grown 7 feet since the last time there was water, so only look for shin deep water there JM....  :P

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2010, 09:36:10 PM »
pissin myself laughing at my stupidity.
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Re: The Weather
« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2010, 10:11:13 PM »
Drove around in Nth Qld as far north as Townsville / Charters Towers a week ago & it rained most days with alot of water laying around the place along coastal areas. The Burdekin River at Charters Towers was running, not hard, but still going over the weir.

That's pretty early in the season for that sort of rain, was holding up cane harvesting in many areas. It never rains it pours hey?

Where's all the wet season water ahead of us going to go? Out to feed the food chain in the bays / ocean. It's not wasted. A big wet run-off or flood event can trigger food chains that have effects for some years to follow.

So if all of the predictions come true we should have some good fishing oportunities into the next few years.  :thumbsup

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2010, 12:01:47 AM »
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Those trees have probably grown 7 feet since the last time there was water, so only look for shin deep water there JM.... 

 Would they grow seven feet if there'd been no water since?

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2010, 12:04:11 AM »

 Would they grow seven feet if there'd been no water since?

There was rain, but probably no water laying.  8)

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2010, 09:26:15 AM »
We fished Monduran for 6 hrs in the rain on Friday, looked absolutely sensational. Saw plenty of bait and birds working and it seemed so promising with sunny conditions ahead in the days following, yet everything in and on the water Saturday and Sunday morning just degraded slightly with cold west winds cooling the dams core.

Curious about how quickly the wind and weather effect the core temps of dams.   I would have though it would take some time to change the temp since the most dams are such a large body of water. What do you guys reckon ?


I have had awesome sessions on the bass with rapidly falling baro pressure before a storm and it seems most fish kinda act the same way in this sort of situation.  They feel the difference and make the most of it.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2010, 09:16:06 PM »
Geoff,
It'd be like someone turning off a freezer. The effect is immediate, albeit slight, all while some parts of the freezer hold the temp for longer while other sections defrost quicker. If it aint switched back on, the whole lot turns to cr@p in a day or three.

The sun is the heat generator that warms lakes.
Wind is the cooler.
Clouds either block the heat generation ( sun),,,or,,,
keep that heat in during the night.
Cold winds on a clear night are temp killers.
Deep water cools the slowest, safe until strong winds create faster currents and circulate the deeper layers.
Many large lake barra head deeper in cooling conditons looking for stability in temperature. They'll sit in colder water that's more stable, no questions asked.
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Re: The Weather
« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2010, 09:20:28 PM »
....and since this is a weather topic- outside, tonight, the sounds are clear and crisp, distant sounds easily heard. It's muggy, the insects are noisy, the moisture/clouds are feeding in from the east. It means just one major thing, rain event. Nature is talking to us- it's saying" Sorry, you won't be playing paint ball tomorrow!"
Update- 16/12/10- the rain event depicted above pushed Awoonga over the thresehold the following afternoon, and then some.
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