Massive Cloud Burst Over My House

[breno]

We just got home from a lovely dinner out last night and noticed there was some lightening in the distance.  Strange for the time of year it is in Australia, it was the Winter Solstice as well.  Check out this graph, at one point 411mm per hour and sustained at over 200mm per hour for a 5-10 minutes.

[WCDev]

Ouch! Wouldn't want to be out in that!

[JosBaz]

Wow... incredible. The highest rain intensity I recorded earlier this year was 213mm/hr and it was quite a downpour. Can't imagine what things look like when you get double the intensity.

[breno]

Almost an inch in 10 minutes.  Welcome to Australia lol.

[Blicj11]

Amazing mate! We've never approached anything like that here.

[elagache]

Dear breno and WeatherCat weather watchers,

We just got home from a lovely dinner out last night and noticed there was some lightening in the distance.  Strange for the time of year it is in Australia, it was the Winter Solstice as well.  Check out this graph, at one point 411mm per hour and sustained at over 200mm per hour for a 5-10 minutes.

WOW!!!!

What sort of effects did all that rain have to the soil around your house?  Did you have a problems with ponding or flooding?  That's a huge amount of water to receive in a such a sort amount of time.  Most drainage systems would be overwhelmed in a hurry.

Glad you are no worse for wear!

Cheers, Edouard 

[LesCimes]

Speaking of cloud burst, yesterday my VP2 reported an inch of rain in less than an hour. What surprised me was that the weather station at school which I manage recorded 3.5 inches in the same period of time. Guess I shouldn't be surprised by such local differences in rainfall, but that did seem like a lot.

[Randall75]

Hi Micheal
 On Monday I had 1.3 inches in less than 1 hour my neighbor lives 3 miles away and has a VP2 and got only 4 tenths of inches so it just depends on where it comes down


cheers


 

[Blicj11]

Not to be out-weathered, I want to report a whopping .01 here. My neighbour had none.

[elagache]

Dear Michael, Randall, Blick and WeatherCat . . . . . drought sufferers . . .

  . . . . . . . Don't you guys know it is very impolite to talk about downpours without sharing some of that 

Around here it is still very much . . . . .

Not to be out-weathered, I want to report a whopping .01 here. My neighbour had none.

  . . . . . That's 0.01" more than I got! . . . .

Cheers, Edouard 

[breno]

Dear breno and WeatherCat weather watchers,

We just got home from a lovely dinner out last night and noticed there was some lightening in the distance.  Strange for the time of year it is in Australia, it was the Winter Solstice as well.  Check out this graph, at one point 411mm per hour and sustained at over 200mm per hour for a 5-10 minutes.

WOW!!!!

What sort of effects did all that rain have to the soil around your house?  Did you have a problems with ponding or flooding?  That's a huge amount of water to receive in a such a sort amount of time.  Most drainage systems would be overwhelmed in a hurry.

Glad you are no worse for wear!

Cheers, Edouard 

Drainage is designed to cope with with huge storms in Queensland but at 400mm an hour the ground had a layer of water on it which quickly drained away when it dropped to 200mm an hour.

No problems with erosion at my house as I have lovely healthy grass but if you had exposed dirt you would be in trouble.

I'm in a catchment area for my local dam so the creek next to my house gets away very quickly, it was almost white water rafting time lol.

[LesCimes]

I find, as I suspect we all do, local variations in weather to be pretty fascinating. I don't recall if I ever mentioned on the forum that a weather friend emailed me about temperature data anomaly a while back. During the night he had a spike of 10? or so, a jump of some consequence, that lasted a couple of hours and then went back down. He was asking what might have caused it (though he knew - just testing me). Turns out that earlier in the afternoon he has spread fresh manure on the adjacent field and the decomposition was sufficient to raise the temperature of the immediate area.

[Blicj11]

Turns out that earlier in the afternoon he has spread fresh manure on the adjacent field and the decomposition was sufficient to raise the temperature of the immediate area.

I nominate this for the Best Fresh Manure Story ever posted on this forum.