KINGAROY RAINFALL

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.

Here is a link to our States' water resources.

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

Water Storage Information

The worst drought in over 100 years.

(1) Record rainfall in the Rainbow Beach area due to a Low pressure system. Figures in the 400 - 800 mm in 24hrs.

Crews battle rising floodwaters in drenched SE Qld

Friday August 24, 2007 - 19:13 EST

Emergency services are working frantically to sandbag homes and businesses on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland where major flooding has occurred.

Emergency Management Queensland is coordinating the response, with the focus on the towns of Tewantin and Noosaville, where floodwaters are rising fast.

Around 200 State Emergency Service (SES) workers are responding to calls for help with fallen trees and leaky rooves.

Weather bureau spokesman Vikash Prasad says there have been massive falls across the dry south-east, including Somerset dam, west of Brisbane.

"Rainbow Beach [received] 820 millimetres, Noosa 614, [but] sadly the Wivenhoe catchment had only 30 millimetres," he said.

"The good news is the upper reaches of the Somerset dam catchment area had 150 millimetres."

Further north in the Wide Bay-Burnett area, the severe weather has caused widespread blackouts and more than 30 roads have been cut by flooding.

The bureau says the heavy rain will ease later tonight but the flooding will continue until Sunday.

- ABC

© ABC 2007

Readings are taken at 9.00 am

Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
1
2			1
3		4	7			1
4	1.5					1.5
5	5								5.5
6			10			31			5.5		9
7				20	1.5				10.5		2.5
8			2						7		15	11
9			8							6		18
10
11		9									1	12
12		4								12		1
13		5										5
14		8
15
16
17		17
18											5	16
19
20		9						18
21					6
22					4			9
23								1				6
24								4 (1)
25								9
26	24		10							20	1
27	7										13	3.5
28												8
29				5						4.5
30										24
31	9
Monthly Totals	46.5	56	38	25	11.5	33.5	0	41	28.5	66.5	46.5	80.5
Days Rained	5	7	6	2	3	3	0	5	4	5	7	9
Cumulative Rainfall	46.5	102.5	140.5	165.5	177	210.5	210.5	251.5	280	346.5	393.0	473.5
Cumulative Days Rained	5	12	18	20	23	26	26	31	35	40	47	56