Morning all.
A pleasant min this morning of 17.7° here.
I wasn't up earlier this morning but wouldn't be surprised if there was fog around.

And given we have SW to SE'erlies at 5 to 10 knots for the next few mornings, I wouldn't be surprised if we had some fog around the place. I'd say probably slightly cooler temps for tomorrow morning.

I'm going camping this weekend between here and Nebo. I'll be sure to take my old min/max thermometer with me, as under good conditions I've recorded min temps as much as 4° below home when there in the past.

@ TeeCee

Mate thats beause ur on a hill and the breeze losses its touch the temp drops. My girlfriend just up the hill from here has the same problem. Its due to height mate. Have u adjusted alutuide {sp} on ur weather station. In Cannonvale we tend to have quite abit a varion "spelling" in tempture due to our topgraphy.

Altitude adjusted BC - The minimum temps are not correct, I'm running both Cumulus & Easyweather software - when I check the monthly records everythings fine but when I "copy to clipboard" it doesn't pick up the minimum temps (see below)

Summary for April 2012

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 25.7
Mean (min+max) 14.7
Mean Minimum 0.0
Mean Maximum 29.4
Minimum 0.0 day 01
Maximum 29.4 day 01
Highest Minimum 0.0 day 01
Lowest Maximum 29.4 day 01
Air frosts 0

Big difference in the humidity currently.

At 1:35pm, both Mackay stations were reporting 71 and 72%, Proserpine was reporting 48% and here my station is reporting 43%.

PV - Here @ 1400hrs: 33.5 deg - 41% Humidity (Lowest this year)

A very nice start to April weatherwise. A beautiful day here in paradise for the school-holiday-makers.

Well here is my March summary for interested readers...

The ants have come out in force again. Is there another rain event down the track. The BOM dosnt think so, but the ants say theres something comming.

The highlights for my place

Summary for March 2012

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 25.9
Mean (min+max) 26.6
Mean Minimum 23.0
Mean Maximum 30.3
Minimum 19.8 day 30
Maximum 34.9 day 06
Highest Minimum 25.2 day 04
Lowest Maximum 23.8 day 19
Air frosts 0

Rainfall (mm):
Total for month 564.4 (variance between w/s & rain guage)
Wettest day 156.4 day 19
High rain rate 261.6 day 18
Rain days 17

Wind (km/h):
Highest Gust 29 day 27
Average Speed 2
Wind Run 1381.4 km
Gale days 0

Pressure (hPa):
Maximum 1017.8 day 27
Minimum 996.6 day 21

Also getting some nice fog early in the morning in the lower paddocks.

A pleasant minimum of 17.0°C here this morning, looking like morning temperatures will be on the rise again over the next few days before falling again for the weekend.

Had a very thick fog out this way this morning, enough to drop 0.2mm into my station's rain gauge.

What have you been recording for Minimum's the last few days out your way Ree?

Absolutely stunning day here in the Whitsundays - great visibility with the low humidity - Hayman Island looks like you could touch it & it's 20km away!

Minimum overnight temp of 20.3 deg @ 0603hrs.

Current obs @ Cannonvale 1105hrs:

Temp - 34.1 deg
Wind - South 2.7 knots gusting to 4.1 knots
Barometer - 1014.7 hpa
Humidity - 58%
Heat Index - 42.2 deg
Dewpoint - 24.9 deg
Rain yesterday - 0.0mm
Rain today - 0.0mm
MTD - 12.3mm
YTD - 1272.6mm

Driest day of the year here today!

Quite a dry heat at the moment, 31°C with 36% humidity.

Observations from Moranbah Airport are now being listed on the BOM's website at http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/observations/qldall.shtml#CHC

Loving the forecasts and the cool mornings!!! We're off to Cathu tomorrow afternoon so hoping for a fine weekend (overcast will do fine) and then from Monday afternoon it can rain again will we have an extra cold winter this year? I hope not because I'm a sook for the cold and my power bill was nasty over summer.

A possibly stupid question, my husband and I are looking at buying land and someone was saying get one that faces north as you'll always get a breeze? Is this true? We get very little breeze where we are at the moment so would love a house where a breeze is present.

My house faces towards the north, we have doors/windows on the eastern and northern sides of the house.

We only usually get breeze from the eastern side of the house and occasionally get breeze on the northern side only on a rare occasion.

Tel check out this website. We've just built a passively cooled home. house orientation is very important for catching breeze and blocking out heat in summer. Our house faces south http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/fs432.html

Can someone with the knowledge explain why it is warm and humid in Yeppoon today yet hot and dry in Rocky . Is this normal ?

Weatherzone had predicted dew points around 16 deg and 40 pc humidity or therabouts for Yeppoon.

Yes, it's normal.
Yeppoon is humid and warm because it's on the coast with the pleasant sea breezes.
Rockhampton is hot and dry because Mount Archer blocks out the pleasant sea breeze that comes in from Yeppoon way and leaves the city in a little area of extra hot, extra dry conditions compared to Yeppoon.

I've experimented this one in the past. I was in Rockhampton one August and it was about 31 degrees, very dry and nearly dead calm. Yeppoon was reading closer to 24 I think and had a nice breeze.
So I drove up to the top of Mt Archer, on the Rockhampton side it was hot and still, but once you went to the other side of it there was a near instant drop in temperature and a lovely cool breeze started blowing, was amazing!


In other weather news, I always find it funny during the cooler times of the year that the BOM persist in forecasting minimum temperatures exactly the same as what OCF is saying despite OCF's failure to accurately forecast cool mornings in the few previous days.

For example, over the last 3 to 4 days, OCF has been forecasting about 17 for Moranbah in the mornings, as has the BOM, yet every morning has been about 13 to 14.
OCF has been saying 15 for Clermont Ap, the BOM has copied and every morning has been about 12 to 13.
The same in Mackay. For the Mackay AP OCF has been saying 20 to 21, the BOM has followed, and it has been 18 to 19 every morning.

Surely it can't be that hard to forecast the morning temperatures when the conditions have been the same every day and OCF has been saying the same thing and getting it wrong by the same amount every day.

I find the best way to work out the upcoming temperatures is to keep a record of OCF's previous forecasts against what actually occurred, I've been doing this for over a year now and find that to be more accurate that what OCF itself actually says.

Wow! Radar's looking good for the Proserpine area at the moment.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR223.loop.shtml

Nah mate they’re false returns. No rain within about 300km. Only a few isolated showers way out in the Coral Sea.

Was very humid and hot in the evening early night yesterday, phew.

Looking good for some of the best Easter weather ever seen for years! Not a chance it will fail either

Thanks for that WWW. Never heard of false returns before!

Found some info on false returns (after reading alot about stuff related to 'false tax returns') and will check it out when brain is not so mushy after the last week of work! http://blog.memphisweather.net/2012/02/identifying-false-weather-returns.html