Maleny Week’s Weather 30 March – 5 April 2009
Maleny Weather
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March/April |
Rain 9.00am |
Evap. |
Bar |
Cloud 3.00pm |
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Mon 30thd |
7.0 mm |
1.8 mm |
1012.4 hPa |
7Ac |
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Tues 31st |
7.2 mm |
2.4 mm |
1008.9 hPa |
5Sc |
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Wed 1st |
Nil |
3.0 mm |
1011.9 hPa |
1Cu, 4Sc |
|
Thurs 2nd |
22.0 mm |
4.0 mm |
1013.7 hPa |
8Ns |
|
Fri 3rd |
147.4 mm |
// |
1016.0 hPa |
8Ns |
|
Sat 4thh |
66.8 mm |
// |
1014.4 hPa |
6Sc |
|
Sun 5th |
4.2 mm |
2.2 mm |
1013.9 hPa |
6Sc |
// Evaporation tank overflows
The weather and its consequences has captured media headlines and been the major topic of conversation all week. Three different weather systems came together to give the south-east of the state an abnormal drenching. With an upper level trough overhead, an onshore moist airflow from the Coral Sea and a surface trough extending from a cold frontal system over NSW combined to bring greater instability in the atmosphere.
Worse hit areas were the low-lying areas around Coolum and Kin Kin, northwest of Noosa, where flash flooding caused devastation on the roads and surged through the township flooding properties.
A 78-year-old Kin Kin woman’s submerged car was found 500 metres downstream from Six mile Creek Crossing, near Kin Kin, where she had tried to drive through the crossing that had been washed away by a metre deep floodwater. Her body was recovered the following day. The woman had been returning home after visiting her sick husband in hospital.
The highest official week’s rainfall was 504 mm at Pomona, and Maleny was in 9th position with 254 mm.