Southern Spring

[Cycadcenter]

Big storm heading straight for Wal at the moment.

Hope it's just rain and not too bad a wind.

[NApalm]

Good steady rain now! New foliage in the ground soaking it up. Gotta love summer nights in qld. Plus new downpipes connected yesterday filling up the tank! Good times

[Eric F]

29mm in the past 24 hours. I hope my plants appreciate it!

[Walter John]

Bugger all rain for my garden so far today, 3.4 mls....... another storm front about to move through this area though..... Second chance for today..... Fingers crossed!

My work on the other hand had super strong winds, almost cyclone / hurricane like and 23 mls (nearly an inch i think?) Some damage caused around Brisbane CBD and it's surrounds.

Heavy activity currently heading in your general direction Wal, hope you get heaps of rain and your garden soaks it up, without damage!!

Yes Ben, we have had some lovely steady rain from last night till this morning, just starting to ease. No heavy storm stuff so the scarecrow is till standing.

[Daryl]

We missed most of the heavy stuff...looks like Brisbane copped a lot of rain in that storm last night. We ended up with 21mm for Saturday which is still better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick!

Daryl

[NApalm]

Some smaller stuff today here. You get any more luck daryl?

[Daryl]

No, not a drop today...plenty of rumbles and threatening skies but it all headed to Brisbane I think...

[NApalm]

Bummer

[Daryl]

I saw on the news this morning that SE QLD had 95000 lightning strikes over the weekend...and parts of Brisbane had over 100mm of rain...half their luck!

Daryl

[NApalm]

Yeah, we didnt get much yesterday. Sat was our day. Havent got the rain guage up yet but wish i did!

[Walter John]

Season outlook for Queensland has changed again:

• a wetter than normal season is more likely for southeast Queensland
  
• a drier than normal season is more likely for the northern half of Queensland
  

[Eric F]

We ended up with about 60mm over the weekend and the weeds in the lawn and my gingers are going nuts.

[Eric F]

Forecast high on Tuesday of 39C in Brisbane. I wonder what I will lose. How's calyptrocalyx heat tolerance?

[NApalm]

Hit 40 yesterday here and hummidity in the teens! Not good. Now i know what its like to live in cali in the summer!

[Tyrone]

38.4C yesterday and humidity in the teens percentage wise. Had 2mm of rain overnight and thunderstorms possibly heading our way. Had a min around 20C and humidity at 85%. Palms opening up leaves after a warm humid night.

[tropicbreeze]

At my place currently (4:30PM) it's 37.7, relative humidity 51%, dew point 25.7 and heat index 48.6.

But we've been getting temps in the high 30's since about mid August so it's really only marginally hotter. Pity the poor people who live mostly in airconditioning but have to go out in this.

[Eric F]

Heat distress on the Ptychosperma salomonense (1.5m tall), Areca vestiaria (40cm), Ptychosperma microcarpum (1m), and 2x Chambeyronia macrocarpa (40cm), after 2 days of 38C / 10-20% humidity. The arenga and coccothrinax seedlings kicked their growth into high gear and must really love it warm. All with heat distress had been well watered on the first of the two hot days, but that apparently was not enough.

The Areca vestiara is likely toast, while the rest should recover. All but the 2 Ptychosperma were under 40% shade cloth, with ambient light of around 40-50Klux.

I guess we are not technically in "Spring" anymore. Someone should start a summer thread.

[NApalm]

Forecast for se qld is showers increasing to rain mon and easing tues! Got a massive bag of organic extra at the ready! Super pumped