Cold and rainey

It's a rainy day in paradise today and I was think about how my chickens are feeling in the cold and the rain so I thought I'd play them a song to cheer the up.



'till next time, cheers

Stewart

It's still too bloody hot!

Hi everyone, I've got a hundred things to write about but It's still too bloody hot. At 3pm in my kitchen on my thermometer it is 38c. with a hot breeze.

Weather report.

32c, fine, hot and dry, dry, dry! Thanks to the people who did all the necessary work to get the largest water tank they could for the Toowoomba Community Organic Gardens or else I'd have next to nothing growing.

May it rain. Get it 'May'. 'May', it rain

Our last rain was on
15/04/09 so things
are getting a bit
dry again.

There for this looks
interesting, especially
the last paragraph.

I will have to keep an eye on the forecast and see
how they go.
Sadly it has been my experience to end up feeling
disappointed by the time the forecast day arrives.
Time will tell.


QUEENSLAND WEATHER FORECAST
Issued at 4:10pm EST on Saturday the 16th of May 2009

IDQ1070002
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
A high pressure system centred over Victoria will
maintain dry conditions over much of the state
during the rest of the weekend, with only isolated
showers about the far northern tropics.

High cloud will develop from the west during Sunday
ahead of an upper level trough, with areas of patchy
light rain developing over most central and southern
districts on Monday.
An increasing onshore flow will result in isolated
showers over the east coast, extending further
inland in southern districts.

The upper trough is likely to intensify on Tuesday
as it moves across southern Queensland, extending
rain areas and isolated thunderstorms across the
southern parts of the sate.
Isolated showers and patchy rain areas in the north,
with possible isolated thunderstorms in the far
northern tropics.

The upper trough could produce significant rain areas
over southeastern parts of
Queensland in the middle of the week. (That's me/us)

36mls

I installed the rain gauge I bought yesterday on the strength of the weather forecast for rain.

A good move on my part cos when I checked the gauge this morning it had measured 36 mls of rain which most fell in about one hour in a storm we had in the afternoon.

In my previous post I mentioned the discrepancy between the BoM official weather station and where I live (roughly 6/7 ks away from each other in a easterly direction).


Yesterdays rainfall was a good example of that when I measured 36mls and official rainfall for Toowoomba was 0.8 mls.

Guess where I've been.

Shopping, the only way a man can, at the local Hardware (is there any other way?)

The right boot of my poor four year old Blunnies has a hole in it and is letting in the water (not a nice experience) and the local Mitre 10 Hardware store is having a sale on my treasured Blundstone boots (bury me with them if you can), "the best boots going around", so it was time to upgrade.

Read all about Blundstone Boots here




Also while I was there I decided to pick up myself a rain gauge, which, I've been promising myself for ages now.

In Toowoomba the discrepancy in rain fall from my side of town to the official BoM rain gauge can be any thing from zero to 50mls.

Also with the promise of good rainfall tomorrow (do we ever give up hope the weather man will get it right?) it seemed like the right time to make the purchase.


So there you have, me shopping.

I'm now off to feed the chooks and inspect the garden (cabbage moth squishing time) and christen the new Blunnies.

Cheers,
Stewart