The Wet?

[morno]

Any of our Darwinites care to elaborate on whether their wet season has arrived yet??!!

Just been looking at some weather maps, as you do, and have noticed that the monsoon's don't even look like wandering over the Top End yet. Bit of a late start??

Was looking forward to a bit of wet season weather in the Gulf when I get back from holidays, but I'm beginning to wonder when I'll see it!!

morno

[Arm out the window]

Starting to get a bit of action round Cairns way, anyhow.

[king oath]

Hop on the Met website: www.bom.gov.au and click on the full globe Sat picture. Its pretty obvious where the monsoon trough is, and it ain't over Darwin yet.

Be patient my son.

[18 foot pek pek]

Hopefully will come soon or there will be water restrictions etc in line with the other Labor nanny states.

[podbreak]

Flying into DRW yesterday there were a few cells around. Nothing monsoon like, though it may just have been the day...

[the wizard of auz]

Nothing in the Kimberly's yet either. late start or non event?. :eek:

[tinpis]

Old "Benzine" Jjunganullanullulla reckon dat honey ant he close up shop already an waitin inna tree for da rain he comin bigtime soon :hmm:

[the wizard of auz]

Nah, nuthin. dat one minga still in da burna here. him pella no. no one bigpella rain come dis time. Must be long time e might come. :eek:

[Delta]

im rain he bin come...eeeeeeeeeeeee too right..... e bin come soon u see..

[Bendo]

Truuuuuuuue, eh?

[Delta]

tooooooo right mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

[tinpis]

Hay! I think he bin comin here dis mornin eh.

Old Benzine him right eh .:hmm:

[the wizard of auz]

Naaah, you pella's all cakey. :D

[tinpis]

:hmm:...I wonder about getting in a little mottaplane with a P-plate piylot, not much in the way of anything workng on the dashboard...bigfella rain...no wonder a lot of these people on the communties are chronic pissheads :}

[the wizard of auz]

true?, you pella gottim bigpella rain?. Its a good a excuse as any to be an alcho. :} :eek:

[Ratshit]

Dat bigpella wet bin long now mate, eh!

R:cool:

[Towering Q]

The green and orange bits on the BOM's sat pic are getting closer.:ok:

[Delta]

eyyyyy u mob recon im bin turn into a bigone whirly-twirrly????? old Jaby down da long grass recon im beee soon....

[AirSic]

Dunno' 'bout them mob in Darbin but them mob in Pilba 'bout to get WET BOSS!

[the wizard of auz]

Ay, I bin seed dat wirley wirley on da tb. You pella might be gunna get wet. :eek: dat pella only a ninny one but. he might get bigger.

[tinpis]

Meanwhile....the Top End East Coast Met Bureau consider their scientific data :hmm:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/image0011.jpg


Nup! bruss we dry !

[the wizard of auz]

Those blokes are the can squasher's at the local recycling plant..........In Halls Creek. :eek: Drink em up and squash em. hard job but someone has to do it.

[transonic dragon]

Eh! Dat bigpella pile de dittypack (30-pack) o greencan! Pucken big mob.

[tinpis]

I have that picture framed in my bar:}
Along with prints of all the Papunya Tula (http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2000/papunya_tula) I didnt collect when they were going fer $25 each :{

[tinpis]

Mmmm ....nice layin in bed listening to the rain on me tin roof and the distant howl of a piston twin climbin out thru it enroute to one of the beautiful settlements ...:rolleyes:
http://www.bom.gov.au/gms/IDE00035.200701112230.jpg

[the wizard of auz]

Nutin here yet. all dry and dusty still. and them clouds is still a little bit east of here (actually, there is a little gap in them around us) Have a look at the nice little gap in the system around the east of cape leveque.
Hot and dry still. plenty of bumps though.

[tinpis]

Bit of luck some will spill to the east of the system and stop those bloody sodbusters from eyeing off our water.

[the wizard of auz]

The settlements around here are well and truly due for the annual washdown and flushout. :eek: that system can drift a little west if it likes. I do believe you easterners are enjoying some of our allocation at the moment. :}

[tinpis]

Some pix from http://www.weatherzone.com.au/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000427;p=62
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/koman12/jan11c.jpghttp://www.waw.net.au/gallery/d/267-2/DCP_0138.JPG


Ya gotta love this time of year up here :ok:

[Towering Q]

OK Wiz, I'm a little confused, you obviously aren't in LEO anymore?:confused:

[the wizard of auz]

PMed ya mate. :}

[OpsNormal]

OK Wiz, I'm a little confused, you obviously aren't in LEO anymore?:confused:

Don't get confused TQ, our Wiz hasn't been in "Kansas" for quite some time now.... :} :}

[the wizard of auz]

yeah, I heard some cool tunes, clicked my heels......and bugga me I'm somewhere else. :}

[tinpis]

OI,yu buggers in Hawker gis our bloody monsoon back:(

['aveagoodknight]

If I didn't know better, I'd say some government cost-cutting department had gotten hold of our monsoon and redistributed it.

This January daily falls of 6, 8, 4, 12mm etc. In past years (1997 for instance) 44, 79, 82, 174mm all around this time of year...

Maybe the next MJO round will deliver??

[Ratshit]

tinpis

"Your" monsoon seems to have found its way to Nth Qld!

and very welcome it is too!

I'll send it back when we have finished with it.

R:cool:

[Victim Air]

ee waas ere yesterday boss but think ee gone today ay.

[the wizard of auz]

We had an awesome wet. lasted all of three days.
river flooded and all........then it all went away. strewth its hot and muggy............ and cloudless here. :hmm:
things better improve or I'm writting a letter to the guvmint. :rolleyes:

[tinpis]

The weather here is disgusting

There seems to be a force field around Darwhine fending off the rain showers

No ****... take a look at the BOM radar for a few minutes.:{

I blame it on the open road speed limit :mad:

[the wizard of auz]

The only moisture around here is whats pouring out of me. :uhoh:
I reckon there is something amiss though. If the SG of water is 1..... I should weigh about ten kilos after what I'm leaking from my skin here at the moment. I reckon I have shed about thirty litres in the last two hours.
Bloody river has dropped from massive flood to little trickle in four days.
I'm blaming the DOTARS mob and the ASIC card......... just because I can.

[tinpis]

Nup...just wont rain on Darwhine.:{

Well its nearly time to call in the BIG GUNS for a singing :ooh:

Jimmy "FiveDollah" Bongalong custodian of the Unleaded Dreaming http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/cannibal.gif

['aveagoodknight]

I've resorted to importing the BOM radar image into photoshop and putting in my own storms.

[the wizard of auz]

Sounds like a good plan that one. might give that a bash. and go and see the local non reflective inhabitants and suggest they dance for rain or I'm not delivering tucker no more.

[tinpis]

Yay ! http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/bananaguit.gif it worked!
We got our clouds back :ok:

Jimmys reward http://www.gtp.com.au/liquordirect/smallimages/06081.jpg

[morno]

Better hurry up and use it while you can Tin, when the TAF says CAVOK and nothing else in it for down here in the Isa, I start to get bored again!

[the wizard of auz]

Plenty of clouds here, but still no rain. just makes it a pain to fly about. hot as hell too............ I reckon a 3 day wet is a pretty poor effort. they should change the name to "The damp".
"yeah mate, I was up north during the damp last year" :rolleyes:

[tinpis]

Wanted: Pilot for C210 bush operation. Must have experienced at least one Top End Damp
:hmm:

['aveagoodknight]

Finally! The scroll bar is needed to read all of the BOM Tropical Cyclone Outlook...

:O