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The SEQ Sky River

To: "'Leanne Knight'" <>, "'Birding Aus'" <>
Subject: The SEQ Sky River
From: "Tony Russel" <>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:34:53 +1030
Laurie, any news of Bill and Eileen ? They're right on the Lockyer Creek.

Tony


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Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2011 3:14 PM
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Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [Birding-Aus] The SEQ Sky River

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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