The ants are in some trouble

Dunno about the ants, but there’s a very interesting set-up emerging. We might get some significant rain when that trough in WA arrives, dragging some tropical moisture with it. So far Friday appears to be the day.

Already you can see the clouds are experimenting with the instability and moisture. If it warms today, we should see some storms later today to start the event off.

What are the ants predicting now? BOM states it’ll be raining today, so I’m enjoying the glorious sunshine.

In jolly old Blighty the weather forecast will tell you with stunning accuracy where each drop of rain will fall, and we get a lot of rain.
Just In From The BBC: Today’s rain will be in a small, concentrated patch extending from the North Sea down to the Isle of Wight.

It will all depend on when the can of beer arrived. Is it possible the ants are just hung over and sleeping it off?

…Tooheys Red eh?! Explains a few things! 😉

The mound is still there, just not as high as it was when johnboy took the “massive” photo. I suspect the rain beat it down, and some was washed to the right where the soil gathered around grass or debris in the gap between concrete slabs.

Or someone drinking Toohey’s Red stepped on it while trying to take a photo.

I bet a bit of sugar placed on the entrance would get the ants moving. That or pouring water down the hole.

How come the mound has gone though? Did someone run it over or does it need ant maintenance?

They might be busy making more ants to replace workers killed building the fortifications?

Well as soon as we reduce the size of Australia to that of the UK, and park it next to the densest concentration of weather observatories in the world aka Europe and its shipping channels, I’m sure forecasters will have a better chance. Till then, we should be thankful that they are able to be useful at all. Ants provide a useful backup, though.

Geez, must be a tough gig predicting when and where it will rain in old Blighty. It’s the size of a postage stamp and always wet haha.

The BOM?

The most laughable site in Australia. As has been posited, one could better predict the weather by ants, cows in fields or random guessing.

Has anyone else noticed that it will predict rain four days hence at the start of virtually every week. Downgrading the % chance incrementally over the preceding days?

In jolly old Blighty the weather forecast* will tell you with stunning accuracy where each drop of rain will fall, and we get a lot of rain.

Here, they can’t even tell you when a hurricane is coming through…

*ok, Mr Fish’s little slip up excepted.