As you may have heard, it is been raining a bit in Southeast
Queensland. Going by the BoM maps, some places have had 500 mm in the
last 30 hours.
What you mightn't know is that the rain has been falling in a peculiar
fashion for the last 6 hours. Basically there has been a sky river
flowing SSW from the Sunshine Coast down to the New England
Tableland. Rain was pulsing along 30 km wide corridor for about 300
km. The corridor slowly slid SE at a rate of about 10 km per hour.
[If you look at the 128 km Brisbane (Mt Stapylton) Rainfall map - rain
since 9 am 11.1.2011 http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR66C.shtml you
can get a feel for what I mean]
I'm not sure how the meteorologists will describe this phenomenon - I
can't recall watching a linear rainfall event like this before.
A lot of people were evacuating the city when I hopped onto my bicycle
for a careful ride home at 1 pm. Although the tide is not
particularly high today the river was close to spilling onto Southbank.
Fortunately, the sky river hasn't been flowing too much over Helidon,
which appears to have had less than 40 mm since 9 am. Dayboro on the
other hand has had more than 200 mm. I guess the Button Quail at Lake
Samsonvale have taken to the life rafts.
Regards, Laurie.
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