A damp return to Carwoola

The first source of dampness was the top of our house pump getting frozen, and subsequently thawing.  This manifested itself as water running out of the top of the pump s soon as I turned it back on.  As it only ran for about 10 minutes before I spotted the problem only a few litres of water got spread around.  I suspect that had we left the pump powered when we went away it may have spurted for several days (or however long it took 50 kilolitres to run out)

However our pump specialist, Mark Taylor was round at sparrow fart (his words - I know there are no sparrows round here) and fixed it up.

The second source of dampness was the sky.  Here is the Weatherzone take on the Captains Flat radar as at 0630 on the morning of 28 June.
Here is a snip from their NSW/ACT radar at 1500.  A second serve appears imminent - but then it has been ominous since about noon
The first lot delivered 11.4mm here (16mm at a site a few km away and a bit higher).  The amounts were fairly evenly spread.over the rainy period.
 Looking at the rate of fall, again it was pretty even apart from the squall at 18mm/hr between 10 and 11 am.
Although the afternoon was very cloudy nothing seemed to come out of the clouds and the Western sky got very clear.  It looked as thought everything had finished.

Then at about 1940, the roof started to rattle again.  Looking at the radar and we had a small rain event coming to visit!
After 15 minutes we have had another 0.8mm!  That totaled to an additional 1.4mm and there was some dew about 2am on the 29th giving an event total of 13mm which is quite handy.  Here are the graphs covering the whole period.



Comments

Mary Chamie said…
Happy rainbows to you, Martin. https://mjchamie.blogspot.com/2018/07/rainbows-i-have-seen.html

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