|
October 2009 |
Evap mm. |
Soil @20cm Temp.&(Moist) |
Gust Knots |
Bright Sun Hours |
UV Peak (Time) |
Heat Stress THSW |
Cloud 3pm |
| Mon 12 |
2.2 |
16.7ºC(200) |
20 |
8.5 |
10(1145) |
32ºC |
2Sc |
| Tues 13 |
2.2 |
17.8ºC(200) |
26 |
8.8 |
9(1145) |
34ºC |
2Cb,2Ns |
| Wed 14 |
4.4 |
18.3ºC{86) |
23 |
8.0 |
9(1130) |
33ºC |
nil |
| Thurs 15 |
6.2 |
17.8ºC(118) |
17 |
9.3 |
10(1130) |
32ºC |
nil |
| Fri 16 |
6.0 |
17.8ºC(147) |
15 |
9.3 |
10(1115) |
32ºC |
nil |
| Sat 17 |
6.0 |
17.8ºC(186) |
15 |
8.8 |
10(1215) |
26ºC |
5Sc |
| Sun 18 |
4.0 |
18.9ºC(200} |
15 |
9.0 |
19(1145) |
29ºC |
2St,2Cu,.3Sc |
Please go to “Current Weather” &“This Month” pages for more data
In the first part of the week the Range weather was determined by a surface trough moving through the region interacting with a ridge of high pressure up the east coast. This brought in some atmospheric instability with strong winds whipping up widespread dust on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thunder was heard on Monday evening with just a splatter of rain. On Tuesday there were two thunderstorms, one at 0.30am and the other 4.00pm, resulting in 10mm of rainfall. This was on a day when water restrictions were introduced at Maleny and supply contractors were required to fill their tankers at Landsborough instead of Maleny Showground. During the latter half of the week, a high in the Great Australian Bight built a strong ridge over the Queensland coast bringing increased cloud cover to the Ranges with a promise of some isolated maritime showers. In fact, the showers were very few and far between and some areas lucky if the were blessed with just one or two millimetres.