Bit wet in Brissy??

[Liz]

Wow, just watched the news, and you guys copped huge anount of rain today at lunch time ~ 90 mm in an hour, with lots of flash flooding. Images have been amazing.
Hope no damage was caused to your houses or cars
jjj - saw Kilcoy on the radar, and looked like it passed through your way earlier today too.

[Davros (Lauren)]

It was fun, had constant rumbling thunder here for hours and heavy rain plus throw in a blackout for a bit of variety. I had candles lit at 3:00pm it was so dark !!
guess no scope time tonight

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I was at work when it hit.
The building was shaking with the force of the rain.
The upside is that the temperature is right down. 25 in the house atm. Lovely compared to the 38 we had yesterday.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

isn't lovely and cool now. What a great downpour. I had about 50mm at work in Nambour

[astroron (Ron)]

Only had 11mm all day,but nice and cool

[Liz]

Certainly one of the great things about rain in the tropics is the lesser temperature. Had a horrible hot night last night here ... no aircon ... fan right up against my face, yucko ...
Glad to hear all is Ok

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR503.loop.shtml
I'm about to be slammed.

[h0ughy (David)]

get much rain JJJ

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Went downstairs at lunchtime and the water level in the carpark was about 100mm above the bottom of my car doors! I think nothing leaked in. Fortunately the waters subsided soon after that. Otherwise I might have seen my car floating down Milton Road when I looked out the window.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Rain rain rain rain and more rain
A few big claps of thunder (nettie doesn't like thunder)
And then a bit more rain.

[Tandum (Robin)]

I managed to hid out in the aircon at home till the lightning storm about 1pm. A sudden flurry of phone calls after that about blown computers. Looks like it will be raining money here for a few days

[DavidTrap (David)]

Sorry for the rain, I just ordered a new bit of astro gear. Won't be delivered for a month or more - so it looks like the rain is here to stay for a while.

Apologies again,

David T

[Liz]

Originally Posted by DavidTrap

Sorry for the rain, I just ordered a new bit of astro gear. Won't be delivered for a month or more - so it looks like the rain is here to stay for a while.

Apologies again,

David T

.... well, you have done a good job there David, as most of Qld is under cloud per SkippySky

http://skippysky.com.au/Australia/

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I've toucam on the way, it may be having an adverse effect too.

[Liz]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I've toucam on the way, it may be having an adverse effect too.

Ah, now I see ..... its a combination of Qlds buying gear ... tsk, tsk
I though you had a Toucam jjj?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

No toucam Liz.
I've only got the LPI, Gstar-ex, canon 20d, canon s3is, canon eso5000, qhy5 and a generic webcam.
Oh, and the Panasonic that I used to use for planetary work.

[Liz]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

No toucam Liz.
I've only got the LPI, Gstar-ex, canon 20d, canon s3is, canon eso5000, qhy5 and a generic webcam.
Oh, and the Panasonic that I used to use for planetary work.

... jiminy jjj!! Thats a few cameras
Hope the Toucam works well ... i had one for awhile, but too fiddly. am person of little patience

[rider]

Eeer, sorry about this but...me too.

brand new 12" Newtonian, I just put the moonlight focuser on it and the rain started as the last screw was tightened.

[Liz]

Originally Posted by rider

Eeer, sorry about this but...me too.

brand new 12" Newtonian, I just put the moonlight focuser on it and the rain started as the last screw was tightened.

.... oh dear ... weather has set in for sure
ps ... enjoy the scope once clouds clear next month

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by Liz

.... oh dear ... weather has set in for sure
ps ... enjoy the scope once clouds clear next month

Your very optimistic Liz very up hope you are right though