Thread: Rain!!!!

Melbourne is in chaos. Never seen anything like it in Mordi.

Yes, it was a shocker. The little shed ended up with a wet floor. The down pipes just could not cope. No harm done. It was a great light and sound show though.

Melbourne is in chaos. Never seen anything like it in Mordi.

When was this Lingum last night was it ?

Originally Posted by Big Shed

We just had a front come through that dumped 30mm of rain on us in half an hour!

Almost forgot what a decent bit of rain looks and feels like, quite dramatic with lightning and thunder to match.

Tanks are now more than 7/8 full, so we face summer with confidence we won't have cart water in.

Probably doesn't sound very exciting to you city slickers, but out here this is a big deal!

Glad that you liked the rain that you got but you would probably rather get it a bit slower.

On the weekend past we got about 30 cm of moisture, however ours was in the form of snow. Right now the temp is at 6 c so it is already starting to melt. When I was a kid we used to get this all the time but this is the first heavy snow this early in the season for a number of years.

If shipping wasn't so d*m high I would send you another 4mm to finish filling your tank.

Maybe if we get lots of snow this winter we won't have water restrictions this summer like we have had for the past few years.

Cheers

Don

This arvo.... it hit around 4pm. Moorabbin copped it bad and apparently Port Philip bay is flooded

Originally Posted by Lignum

apparently Port Philip bay is flooded

Of course it is, thats what Bays do.

FYI, to convert snow to the equivalent amount of rain, you divide by 10. So working the other way around, 30cm of rain equates to 3 meters of snow...

For the record, I lived just outside Ottawa in the early 70's, when we set what was then (and may still be) a record of 180" (about 4.5 meters) of snow for a winter. Fun for kids, not so kuch fun for anyone who needed to get to work.

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Tanks are now more than 7/8 full, so we face summer with confidence we won't have cart water in.

That IS good news. Hopefully enough water to fill a few dams and let farmers begin to think about restocking a bit too.

Big Shed, I live on the edge of the Spring Gully reservoir ... first I watched about a hundred cubic metres of dirt and gravel wash down the street beside my house, then I helped a neighbour bale out the swimming pool that turned up in their garage.

It is a long time since I've heard thunder go for so long.

Originally Posted by dsquire

Glad that you liked the rain that you got but you would probably rather get it a bit slower.

On the weekend past we got about 30 cm of moisture, however ours was in the form of snow. Right now the temp is at 6 c so it is already starting to melt. When I was a kid we used to get this all the time but this is the first heavy snow this early in the season for a number of years.

If shipping wasn't so d*m high I would send you another 4mm to finish filling your tank.

Maybe if we get lots of snow this winter we won't have water restrictions this summer like we have had for the past few years.

Cheers

Don

G'day Don,

No this is just right, at this rate it all goes straight into our 2 dams, ground is so dry that the water just runs over the top and straight into the dams.

We have 2 plastic corrugated tanks of 22500 litres (5000 Imp gallons) and there are 31 ribs, 3 mm of rainfall equates to 1 rib in the 2 tanks, which are interconnected. So that 30min downpour was responsible for 10 ribs, or about a third of the tanks.

This time of year, summer, we don't get slow steady rain, if we get rain at all, and so far this month we have 6mm, it usually comes down like it did today.

In winter, June July August, we get the slower drizzle type of rain.

Today we even had some hail stones mixed up with the rain, some were an inch across, all this on a day of about 30C!

Fred

Originally Posted by switt775

For the record, I lived just outside Ottawa in the early 70's, when we set what was then (and may still be) a record of 180" (about 4.5 meters) of snow for a winter......

And just to prove that I can whiz higher than you, in 2000 (when we lived in poo throwing distance of Cliffy and Mick) we had 7 metres of rain for the year (70 metres of snow). 3 metres of that was in one month, and 1 metre of that was in 3 days - all thanks to Cyclone Steve!! Bellenden Ker, which is about 7 km as the crow flies from us had 12 metres of rain for the year!!

I think I sense a Monty Python skit coming on... 70 metres? Why that's nothing. Back in.......

Originally Posted by switt775

I think I sense a Monty Python skit coming on... 70 metres? Why that's nothing. Back in.......

That's funny.

More Rain, More Rain......bring it on