Phred > wrote
> Rod Speed > wrote
>> Jimington > wrote
>>> Rod Speed > wrote
>>>> Phred > wrote

>>>>> Pity the 713 mm received at Rainbow Beach in the past
>>>>> 24 hours (to 9 a.m. 24 Aug 07) just ran back into the
>>>>> bloody sea instead of into a dam somewhere! ]

>>>> Yeah, looks like Noosa has been washed out to sea too.

>>> Might bring them down to earth for a while,

>> Or they might get washed out to sea |-)

>>> they've been getting a bit uppity lately.

>> True.

>>> I must query the 713mm, i sense somebody's poured a jug of water
>>> into the gauge. Nearby areas didn't get within coo-ee of that amount.

> It does look a bit sus.

Dunno, after the ABC TV News footage last night, something made the two
rivers overflow to levels you only ever see a couple of times a century, so
presumably it was real and not someone playing silly buggers with the rain guage.

> Tewantin and Double Is Pt both got a bit over 300 mm, but that's a long way
> short of 713 -- maybe they measured in points and forgot to divide by four. :-)

Its not that unusual to get that much variation between guages that close.

> However, it must be said the met bureau guy seemed to be taking it
> seriously on the Country Hour weather summary yesterday (24 Aug 2007).

> That part of the world seems to have a history of unusual rainfall events.

Yeah, I've never seen rain like it.

> I've always been suspicious of Inigo Jones's record from Crohamhurst,
> for example. But then, maybe it takes a professional weather forecaster
> to keep emptying the gauge before it overflows!

> Quoting from the biog of Inigo Jones at:
> <http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090511b.htm>

> "In 1892 his parents bought a farm about sixty miles (97 km) north
> of Brisbane and named it Crohamhurst after a property near Inigo's
> birthplace. Inigo joined them there and on 2 February 1893 recorded
> an Australian record for one day's rainfall of 37.714 inches (958 mm)."

> {Did he *really* measure to thousandths of an inch?]

Or maybe thats just the result of a couple of reverse metric conversions.

>> Yeah, I auto update the national rainfall map at 2pm.

>>>>> Returning to topic: Oz MSA standards seem to be pretty reliable
>>>>> now, certainly possible to get some really good chewing steak these
>>>>> days fairly consistently (at a price!) instead of the traditional roulette!

>>>> Thats a significant improvement for you denizens of the north.
>>>> Tropical beef has never been that flash.

>>> It seems to have improved in the past years. In fact i'd almost forgotten about that.

>> Presumably we send the worst of the tropical beef to the yanks now.

>> They just grind it up and wouldnt even notice.

> The "hamburger trade" was the saviour of the northern
> beef cattle industry decades ago, and continues to be
> a major market for the lesser quality beef.

Yeah, thats what I meant.

> The yanks like the low-fat grass-fed product to
> mix with their own stuff for healthier burgers. :-)

And they dont even notice the kangaroo mixed in with it.