11 February 2007

Storm's a-comin'

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A severe thunderstorm is about to hit Canberra (guess that means Thumper will be busy tonight).

Large hailstones, damaging wind, very heavy rainfall and flash flooding. Details at BOM.

Emergency Services Authority (ACT body) have issued an Yellow alert. Which means likely storm impact.

Gotta go, washing on line.

PS Heard about this on Essential Baby. Of all places.

UPDATED: [ED – So any tales or pictures of exciting flooding?]

Here’s one taken by Bartron:

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No-one should be whinging, anyway. It could be like this:
“The death toll from Indonesia’s floods has reached 85 and it could be months before hundreds of thousands of displaced survivors can move back into their homes.”
-ABC.

But, but, didn’t the green doomsayers tell us that global warming meant it would never rain again???

Came back to flooding through the new ceillings at work. And mud all voer the plcae. lovely.

if howard had ratified the kyoto treaty, this would never have happened.

Growling Ferret9:39 pm 11 Feb 07

Great minds think alike KaneO!

actew

[ED – And neither of you with the wit to link]

There has been a reasonable amount of rain showing on the BOM site recently over the catchment to the west of Canberra.

I imagine the ground would need a good drink before runoff occurred. Is there a reliable website which updates the dam water levels?

Surely regular updates as circumstances change are called for? We don’t get the same storm effects at the same time in different geog areas, so while maybe it had already passed over Dickson ABC, we could see it approaching with no info.

666 did interrupt its programming, during the mid-late afternoon – with a storm warning. That’s how I knew about it, and got to Canberra Stadium early.

Perhaps because nothing was going on they decided not to bother?

I heard on 2CA in the car in the arvo. I put 666 on for a while later, when I saw the huge clouds approaching, while the Brumbies game was being broadcast – but in vain.Switched to 2CA but they had stopped giving updates too, they had constant music on. Put on ABC 7pm news, I thought it might be mentioned at the beginning, but no again. Eventually caught it on ch 10 during Jumunji.

By that time I had unplugged the computer.

Broadcasters are going to have to get over themselves and interrupt regular programming – often out of hours – to broadcast updates so people know what’s going on.

The whole of the ACT is a dustbowl. That’s what I meant

Growling Ferret8:57 am 11 Feb 07

Simbo – I’m wiht VG – I’d prefer a mudbowl than the hot dustbowl that we suffer in Gungahlin now. It might allow some trees and plants to grow and offer shade/respite from heat!

You’d prefer to live in a mudbowl for a while, vg?

We got some reasonable rain in Gungahlin, but more would have been nice. Lets hope there’s more to come. I’m sick of living in a dustbowl

Vic Bitterman11:05 pm 10 Feb 07

Thanks for the heads-up!

It sure came down in Tuggeranong, my rain guage has 12.75mm of rain in it.

It was enough rain such that I decided to wash my cars, and then allow the rain to rinse them off. I got soaked of course!!!!

Growling Ferret10:56 pm 10 Feb 07

It belted down in Weston Creek – Brierly St was a river…

And didn’t the cell that came over the Woden area ’bout 6.30pm turn out to be a beauty (by ACT standards anyway). ABCTV also ran a warning across the bottom of the screen – apparently it was a code yellow. Whatever the hell that means! And yeap, I do sit on the BoM site and click refresh. Or run outside and play in the rain. Which worries the neighbours endlessly judging by the numbers of curtains twitching as I peered into stormwater drains and frolicked along the street.

Maybe a link
to the photo will help.

So what do you do when the main street turn into a river? Pity I didn’t have my canoe :/

Not in Gungahlin it ain’t!

ahhhhh, great, i have washing on the line as well 😀 (which is still there, duh, good on me)

Wow, its really bad now!

Aaand it’s bucketing down now.

Samuel Gordon-Stewart4:30 pm 10 Feb 07

And it’s dissipated too! Looks pretty heavy in Numerella and Jindabyne, pity it doesn’t look like raining in our water catchments.

Samuel Gordon-Stewart4:05 pm 10 Feb 07

666ABC and 2CC also broadcast the announcement. Not sure about the others.

Looking at the weather radar it looks like the main activity is to the north and south of us, there’s a lot happening up near Bigga, Taralga and Crookwell. That being said, one storm cell has already dissipated before turning into scattered showers across Canberra, and another storm cell is developing and heading in our direction.

vg you are soft!

Thankfully I didn’t buy my Brumbies tix in advance. Storm means Foxsports 3 for me

Don’t say you haven’t been warned this time folks… Although I guess they are hoping we are all sitting at home on the ESA/BOM website continually clikcing refresh.

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