Official readings for Kingaroy are taken at the Kingaroy Airport.

 94549  -  KINGAROY AIRPORT  -  151.8398°E, 26.5737°S, 434m ASL

KINGAROY Town  -  151.5072°E, 26.3232°S, 437m ASL

The rainfall ( in mm ) reported here is read from a commercial rain gauge mounted in the open on a post 2 metres off the ground at our home in Kingaroy itself, some 5km from the Kingaroy Airport.

(The Dam closest to our area is the Bjelke-Petersen Dam) 

Water Storage Information

This year we have had the worst drought in over 100 years.

(1)

3-11-2006 - 10.42am - Friday

"Rain event" due. Below are the Weatherzone forecasts from today out.

 ABC radio has carried forecasts from BOM forecasters, for the past 3 days at least, raising hopes high, of rain in our district as well as others. Most recent "rain events" have been "fizzers".

It will be very interesting to see how this one pans out.

Friday
	Thunderstorms 13°C - 27°C Precip: 90%, 20-40mm Frost Risk: Nil     9am 3pm Wind:  N 8kt  ENE 1kt RH: 65% 77%
Saturday
	Thunderstorms 15°C - 24°C Precip: 80%, 5-10mm Frost Risk: Nil     9am 3pm Wind:  N 7kt  NW 2kt RH: 83% 85%
Sunday
	Possible thunderstorm 14°C - 27°C Precip: 50%, 1-5mm Frost Risk: Nil     9am 3pm Wind:  WNW 6kt  W 6kt RH: 52% 49%
Monday
	Possible shower 14°C - 29°C Precip: 40%, < 1mm Frost Risk: Nil     9am 3pm Wind:  W 8kt  SW 9kt RH: 53% 48%
Tuesday
	Mostly cloudy 15°C - 28°C Precip: 20%, < 1mm Frost Risk: Nil     9am 3pm Wind:  SE 4kt  E 5kt RH: 56% 58%

Update - It turned out the forecasts were correct this time. Good for them.

Friday night it started slowly and rained softly most of the night.  25mm fell.

Saturday afternoon, just on sundown, a line of storms  passed over. The intensity of the rain was so great that the road outside of our house ran as a river, gutter to gutter, then up onto the footpath. 34.5mm fell in a very short time.

(2)  Very light rain/drizzle over 2 days. No runoff at all. The rain came in from the north west, flowing out to the south east along the jetstream line. Our area was lucky to be under the jetstream for around 3 days.

The temperature was way below normal in Kingaroy for those days.
We spent a hot, humid Christmas and Boxing Day at Bli Bli on the coast east of Kingaroy and had to endure a very hot, steamy Christmas night with short periods of mist ( and midgies! ).
At 3pm on Boxing Day ( Tues 26/12 ) on our trip back home to Nanango we struck cold air and the first sign of rain, just after Goomeri, around 70km north east of Kingaroy.
By the time we arrived at Judy's home near Nanango ( around 32km east of Kingaroy ), 30 minutes later, it was raining lightly and freezing cold.

As I write this at 10.38 am on Thursday 28-12-2006, it is 17.4 outside and I have a coat on!  There is still a total, deep cloud cover and a very light drizzle is falling, although as I look towards the west, I can see signs of the edge of the jetsream and a very light sky.

Below are some temperatures for Kingaroy Airport from Weatherzone to show how the days were.

Maps from Weatherzone

Readings are taken at 9.00 am