This is the SEQLD/NENSW Day to Day weather thread for 2017.

Just use it like we did with the previous one. The previous day to day weather thread ran from March 2005 to December 2016 and reached 797 pages (almost 16,000 replies and nearly 36,000,000 views!). Splitting the Day to Day thread into years should make finding information about past weather more easy, and gives more organisation to the general weather that occurs in our region outside of the weather event threads. Quite a bit of good discussion about historical weather, weather questions / queries, along with past, present and future weather patterns usually occurs in these Day to Day threads too and shouldn't be lost in amongst the many posts.

The following may help with finding information in the previous Day to Day thread that existed from March 2005 to December 2016.
If set to the default setting of 20 posts per page, this is the yearly distribution of posts in the previous Day to Day thread:

And the seasonal distribution of posts in the previous Day to Day thread:


Happy New Year!

Thanks SB!
Happy New Year to you also and to all the WZ tribe

Thanks Seabreeze, you have done an awesome job keeping everything running smoothly as a Mod. And thank you for indexing the past events from the previous thread for future references. That is a lot of work and much appreciated.

Cheers
Col

Cheers for the thread Seabreeze. Looking like a good start to the year with showers and possible storms for Brisbane tomorrow evening.

Thanks for taking the time to set this thread up SB, I use it often, it's nice to know how other people are faring around the SE.

It's 7:50 here in sunnybank, 34mm through the gauge so far and plenty of rain still on the way. This is a drought breaker for the city, grass will be green growing for a month and half
Temperature outside has dropped to 23C

Happy new year everyone and thanks SB.

NAEFS has been going for another spell of hotter than normal conditions developing across far eastern Australia from around mid to late next week (after the relatively cooler conditions this week) - output for the day 7 to 14 forecast period from now:

Thanks Ken, make sure the next time you put up map in the 7-14 day period make sure it's about being wetter than normal!

Also does anyone those who know WATL rainfall maps on the BOM are the time period from between Midnight to midnight? or any other time period.

Haha I'll try Squeako.
The 24hr time periods for the WATL maps are still 12z til 12z (from 10pm the previous day to 10pm of the forecast day EST) due to the fact that some of the older models only used to have 6hr forecast time steps.
It's been changed to 15z to 15z recently but only for certain registered user and internal products. It's meant to be done for the public WATL webpage as well but the other products have taken priority so far.

If only the upper low up north would track several hundred kilometres to the south.

Looks like the Boonah weathercam is back-focusing on a cobweb on the lens

Hopefully one of the BSCH guys can contact them, it is a great cam for viewing systems coming off the ranges.

GFS has had a minor upper trough passing through for today/tomorrow for a while, and now the bom forecast has suddenly upgraded to showers/windy 8-20mm for Saturday on the coast. I think my few square meters of dirt could use a bit more rain yet, surface looks good, but was still able to find dry stuff not too far beneath the surface.

I was wondering why tomorrows BOM forecast was so optimistic. Didn't see anything special on their maps.

2.3mm received here st Salisbury yesterday in a heavy shower that didn't last to long.

The 7 day forecast looks maybe interesting. The strong trade wind surge through the tropical Pacific may get deflected into a NE wind on the coast, and combined with ridging in the cora sea direct low pressure onto the coast. GFS has a series of low pressure systems crossing the tropical coast and most of the rain to the north. Access has a North south trough just off the coast with good SEQ rains but nothing extreme, and EC has a low pop up well to the east of us that spoils the party.

The models have been throwing up a lot of interesting NE wind scenarios for a few weeks, and they haven't really come off yet. Not sure if the pattern is supportive of such a scenario but we haven't yet been lucky enough for the ingredients to come together, or whether the pattern is only supportive of the models predicting such stuff in the longer range without actually delivering.

Looks like a small area of low pressure heading into the MNC right now - check out the animation: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/radar/nsw/grafton

Likely to see some good falls to its south if that is the case, but likely to zip through pretty quick. We're up to around 40mm this event now, much needed rain

A few storms around this arvo, a small cell just passing Oakington (source WZ stormtracker.)

Warnings in place for NeNSW

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
for HEAVY RAINFALL

For people in the
Northern Rivers and parts of the
Northern Tablelands Forecast Districts.

Issued at 5:02 pm Friday, 6 January 2017.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Byron Bay, Ballina, Casino, Kyogle, Tabulam, Evans Head, Yamba and Maclean.

Severe thunderstorms are no longer occurring in the Mid North Coast district and the warning for this district is CANCELLED.

Yamba received 45mm of rain in 60 min between 3pm and 4pm this afternoon.

Still looking to be an increase in instability late next week.

Doesn't look like too much happening before then though apart from that increase in temps from mid next week.

Meanwhile here in NYC, the seemingly neverending run of unseasonably mild dry conditions has been temporarily broken by some light modest snowfalls during the wee hours of this morning (be great if we got something like that again in SE QLD/NE NSW). The clearance to a stunning clear day with crystal blue skies sure made for some nice photo opportunities at the Wollman ice skating rink in Central Park today:

Another 15mm of lovely heavy tropical rain here over night, with a couple of beefy showers just after sunrise. My grass is finally green!

Hi Ken
It looks like the weather is miserable over there and you must be having a terrible time. I hope things improve and the sun can melt all that horrible snow away so you can enjoy the sights of New York.

Looks AWESOME. Beautiful scenery and that crisp air would be right up there for your liking. I suppose you wont want to come home.

Not too hot here in SEQ but a little humid at times. A bit of a TL up North.

Thanks for posting. It would just be terrific if Brisbane was like that in Winter.

Cheers