Enjoying this squally weather. Looks like another night of disturbed sleep . Have to take the garbage bin out during the next lull.

Here is the transcript to Burnsies rant on the weather...love Telstra TBox...
''Well, would you beleive the southern media are at it again...more unprofessional claptrap and what they portray at breakfast television. What am I talking about? Now presenters forcast this morning...Did you se it? 200km an hour winds forcast today for North Queensland. No cyclone mind you nor any cyclone warning current.
Imagine the repercussions on national television if I forcast 200km an hour winds for Sydney or Melbourne...
Now Queensland deserves and demands better. Give us the factual information, not the non-sensical gobbldy-gook transmitted out of Sydney.
Now what do you think?
OK Burnsey, get off your soapbox...
Righto, lets get on with the fairdinkum material...

Gotta love Burnsey, my other half and I have had a good laugh quite a number of times at Burnsey over the last few years.

Bayview rainfall for 24 hours till 7am this morning 122mm. Total of 346 7am Saturday till 7am this morning. Rainfall 7am today till 7.34 this evening 14mm...and no 200km per hour winds!

Btw, have been lurking here since I found this site when Ului went through Arlie in March 2010. I have posted a couple of times under different guises (forgot passwords etc). Enjoy reading all your posts, though do miss Things' frequent contributions. I will try to contribute a bit more now.

pouring hère again the sandwich just got closed over LOL

ps look at the feed from the NE on the sat pic could be more interesting yet,

213.4 mm/hr here atm!!! and the odd rumble

nearly jumped out of my skin with that massive crack of thunder... thought the world was going to end there for a second - caught me totally by surprise:-)

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Love Burnsie! Missed him tonight though so thanks DaveMc
Perhaps it was a hangover from the when ABC were reporting 170kmh-ish winds with the TL (and they did it 2 nights in a row), rather than the 'winds may be experienced 170kmh from the centre,' that it was supposed to be? Either way, shoddy work. Go Burnsie

Another plane just aborted a landing, must be some nervious pilots out there!!!

As the native indians of the Klondike region of Yukon Territory would say: Thron Duick (hammer water). Althoght they were talking about a river I shall refer to the down pour we are having on the northern beaches at the moment.

Good work Cyclone and Dave, love it!!

Heard it yesterday Moonlight and thought to myself, either you(the ABC presenter) are ignorant in reading a simple Tropical Cyclone Advice, or you (the presenter again) just want to dramatise the situation.

good on you cyclone...will watch that clip again and again for next few days. My other half is in Brissy til Friday...she will love this when she comes back to town.

Wow, what a storm!!!

My cynical self suspects a little from column A, and a little from column B, DaveMc.
Thanks too, Cyclone. Other half had a good laugh

This latest line coming through has lined itself up nicely to give us al a drenching

yes looks like the train is on our track again.

Wow Driveunder!! It was outside my door...
Saw the flash at street level and then felt like a shockwave, then boom!!!!!
Needed to check the reg grundies....

This rain is fantastic had rainfall rate of 230mm/hr comming down and squally winds :):)

Popped out to check the guage in the two second break from rain earlier.... 85mm since 7am this morning. Still bucketing here. Fantastic. I was outside and saw the lightening so wasn't surprised by the big crack of thunder, not that it could be heard over the rain anyway.

Just emptied another 83mm out of the guage, so that now makes 208mm since 8am and it's still coming down. I think we need a bigger rain gauge...