i hate this weather, too dry, yucky

I heard a distant Storm Bird this morning. A bit earlier in the year than normal I think.

33c, 5%rh, dp -11c, disgusting weather

Yes, extremely dry. Between 0730 and 1130 today we experienced a drop in DP of 28.3C (+18.1 to -10.2). Townsville is one of DP extremes. In summer we regularly have DPs in the mid 20's and higher. In winter dry nonsense like this. I do recall seeing a -18 DP sometime in the 80's.

Some lovely showers moved through last night, 4mm in BG.

just the 1mm in downtown kirwan, would have taken that 4mm though, the 20mm on northern beaches would have been even better.

Some lovely showers around again this morning, 5-10mm across the coastal suburbs.

17mm in BG to 7:50am.

With 13mm at the AP to 9am, this was the wettest September day in 8 years.

we had since this morning about 4.8mm that was about it's.

Does anyone know of any good webcams to view in Townsville? I can't seem to find any decent ones (or working ones for that matter) that give a good view of the city or suburbs.

Other than the traffic cameras, there's none.

https://qldtraffic.qld.gov.au/cameras.html

one one on castle hill was destroyed by Yasi on memory and never replaced sadly.

Townsville storms webpage has one, camera is located at Bushland Beach.

http://www.townsvillestorms.com/

had 6mm very welcome mm's in Kirwan this morning.

Maybe this coming storm/wet season will be average to above average after all:

https://data.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/MonthlyClimateStatements/sep2018_monthly_climate_statement.pdf

Seems like every time the BOM put out a 3 monthly update it's always saying it's going to be above average temps with not much rain ...

nice to finally see some activity on the Tsv radar, ok'ish echos to our west.

saw the first flashes of lightning to the west just before bed

Might even see some wet stuff today?

*pokes head out from under his hibernation rock* Did someone mention Rain.

Thunder! Probably gonna play piggy inn the middle but it's a nice sound at least.