Monday 16 February 2009

It Rained Today

It just goes to show you cannot trust the weather to behave when you need it to do so.

It rained this morning.........just at the time most people were on their way to work. But no, not just some rain. Yesterday was dry, and the ominous signs of the monsoon moving offshore were quite obvious. Were we to have some more dry days? There had been 26 days in a row with rain, Sunday was dry. Maybe a few dry days would be good.

But this morning it rained, very seriously! About 40mm [ more in some areas around Darwin] in about 20 -25 minutes, equivalent to about 100mm in an hour intensity. That is serious rain!

Traffic quickly switched to "wet mode" - headlights on, a bit more care, lots of splashing water off the road and a slightly slower pace. And people were caught out big time, with quite a few drenched bodies seen.........had gone out without the mandatory umbrella!

And now, 40 minutes later the clouds are rising, and blue sky is slowly appearing across the southern sky as the storm clouds disappear to the north, offshore.

But it will be wet underfoot for some time still as the ground slowly moves the water overland or absorbs it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This morning, I think an umbrella would have been about as useful to keeping dry as Maxwell Smart's Cone of Silence was to keeping conversations secure. ;-)