19mm thus far for me today. Internet crashed here as well.

URGENT MSG - TELSTRA INTERNET AUSTRALIA MOBILE AND LANDBASED IS EXPERIENCING WIDESPREAD OUTAGES.
We are attempting to fin out more information but telstra lines are jammed including call connection services

Telstra Outage Identified - Telstra realese first statement.
"A service outage has been identified which may result in intermittent internet access. This is being treated as a matter of high priority. Thank you for your patience."
This Statement put out by Telstra 24/7 Facebook Site just 10 minutes ago.

http://servicestatus.telstra.com/servicestatus/

And nothing was listed here? Trololol.
I also wanna add that it got bloody chilly after that rain band came through. Guess its just a shock to the system after the last few weeks...

A severe weather warning for this event has been pre-prepared in case it needs to be issued later today or tomorrow. GFS is the only major model atm which doesn't weaken the midlevel cutoff low like the others.

Hi great information SupercellsGalore good to know you guys are on top of the situation, 12Z EC still has some pretty decent precip accumulations topping the 100mm+ for this event for Coastal areas and adjacent inland. Still awaiting 00Z models to improve confidence in the forecast. Would love to know what the high res ACCESS C model has outputted for this event.

The line of eased weather is very distinct. The WV shows that there is a dry Longwave approaching from the west.

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/austeast/movies/gmswv/gmswvjava.html

What would be the chances of this killing our event?

The event that is coming through the next few days is from NSW.

Jeff H has a good video from this morning on his page on FB explaining what is expected, from where and how much

That Boundary is exactly where the Mid/Upper level low will start to spin up over the next 12-24hrs.

Hi Scottie, The High res Access C is really only useful for 24 about hours ahead.. Unfortunately the 00z run won't be out until after 5pm or so and projects from 00z today onwards for about 36 hours ahead. On the latest (12z) run it didn't really show much happening tomorrow morning though.. It will be interesting to see what it thinks will happen past 00z tho'!

Ahh makes sense.... keep us posted

Can you explain to me why BOM put out a forecast for Brisbane at 4.10pm and then an updated one at 4.15pm? Weird

The Brisbane forecast is always issued at 4.15pm five minutes after the general forecast for the SE Coastal District issued at 4.10pm.

Yeah I know that, but today, they issued a forecast for Brisbane at 4.10pm then 5 minutes later, issued the same thing again. They surely don't issue this everyday.

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST SEVERE WEATHER WARNING for Heavy Rain For people in the Southeast Coast and parts of the Wide Bay and Burnett and Darling Downs and Granite Belt districts. Issued at 4:45 pm on Thursday 23 February 2012 Synoptic Situation: An upper low will develop across southeast Queensland overnight and move slowly westwards during the next 48 hours. Heavy rain which may lead to flash flooding is expected to develop about the Southeast Coast, far southern parts of the Wide Bay and Burnett and far eastern parts of the Darling Downs and Granite Belt districts late Friday and continue through Saturday morning. 24 hour rainfall totals of 100 to 150 mm are likely about the coastal ranges, with isolated rainfall totals in excess of 200mm possible. Locations which may be affected include Fraser Island, Gympie, Kingaroy, the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba and Warwick. Flood Warnings are current for various rivers and streams in these districts; see www.bom.gov.au/qld/warnings. Emergency Management Queensland advises that people should: * Avoid driving, walking or riding through flood waters. * Keep clear of creeks and storm drains. * For emergency assistance contact the SES on 132 500.

Wow... Lovely detailed SWW there and just as SupercellsGalore mentioned earlier on. (Nice insider tip... Keep them coming! )

does anyone feel like its 'calm before the storm? i can everythings dead still..

7mm since 9am today here in the donut hole, however, you'd swear it would have been more 10-20mm. It had been raining here for the majority of the day, albeit only lightly, nothing heavy or torrential.

00z GFS is out now, and it's saying that this event is going to be mainly coastal, with the 'bullseye' of 200mm totals NE of Bundaberg (offshore).

Things are going in accordance with GFS and this event is unfolding in real time before our eyes. The cold pool has marched relentlessly across Northern NSW and is now stalling just off the coast. The cut-off low will form later over SEQ and start retreating back to the west, and that's when the real action will take place.