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The end of the south drain – west. Looking west from a bridge over the south drain as it enters Lake Richmond. Below is looking east. Until the south drain fills with winter we will leave it there, onto more photographs of the far south drain.
Below is a bonus photograph of Lake Richmond looking north from the south eastern shore.
Bungaree Lake which is part of the south drain. Above is looking east from the western side, below is looking north from the southern side.
Above is a bridge across the south drain looking north east with Bungaree Oval to the top left, below is the lake looking south west from the norther side.
Bungaree Primary School which is on the northern side of the south drain, and Bungaree Oval.
Lego NASA Saturn V Rocket [92176]
To celebrate this morning’s [Western Australian time] launch of the Artemis II mission, an Orion capsule atop a SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, we present the Apollo era rocket.
The photographer was luck enough to walk the length of a real Saturn V rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center back in 2003.
The south drain at Seabrooke Avenue, above looking west, below looking east.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle only produced another 2.5mm of rainfall from 3pm Saturday 28 April until the end of yesterday; so a total of 104.5mm for the event in total.
| Date Range | Manual Period | Manual YTD | Digital Period | Digital YTD | BOM Period | BOM YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Mar 15:00 to 30Mar | 2.5 | 110.1 | 0.4 | 79.3 | 2.2 | 114.6 |
| 27Mar to 28Mar 15:00 | 102.0 | 107.6 | 72.7 | 78.9 | 105.2 | 112.4 |
| 27Feb to 26Mar | – | 5.6 | – | 6.2 | – | 7.2 |
| 26Feb | 4.0 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 7.2 |
| 22Feb to 25Feb | – | 1.6 | – | 1.7 | – | 4.2 |
| 20Feb to 21Feb | – | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.7 | – | 4.2 |
| 11Feb to 19Feb | – | 1.6 | – | 1.5 | – | 4.2 |
| 10Feb | 0.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.5 | – | 4.2 |
| 27Jan to 09Feb | – | 1.5 | – | 1.1 | – | 4.2 |
| 25Jan to 26Jan | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 01Jan to 24Jan | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Date Range | Manual Period | Manual YTD | Digital Period | Digital YTD | BOM Period | BOM YTD |
Growing up in the Perth Hills area, Marri or Corymbia calophylla were a common tree, and is the gum tree that grows ‘honky nuts’ and can be tapped for sap. Although not common in coastal areas, nor totally suitable for a medium garden due to how large they can get, we are growing them anyway. It is intended they will be kept to about four metres.
These pots containing four plants each have been grown from seeds collected over the years, and will be planted and grown in these groups, adding to the plants already being grown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_calophylla
Below shows them planted out.
Given the soaking rain the last few days, winter planting can be brought forward. This is the mint planted in a garden bed.
Below are the plants while still in the pots.
Below is the other garden bed that was intended to be planted with mint, but since the mother mint was purchased it has self sown with Seaside Daisy, and a transplanted oregano has survived, so planting it with mint is on hold.
The results of the rainfall from Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle! We had 102.0mm of rain from Friday 27 March (started about 8am) until the main rain event ended, this is today at 3pm. The great part of this rain event has been that it was steady rain over that period, so soaked in with reduced run off.
Any further rainfall the next few days will be reported when the rain event is fully ended. This is a long post today so make sure you check to the bottom.
The digital gauge significantly under reported the amount of rainfall, so to get another comparision the table now includes the readings from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Garden Island gauge [https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW6046.latest.shtml]. This is several kilometres away, so can also be significantly different at times.
| Date Range | Manual Period | Manual YTD | Digital Period | Digital YTD | BOM Period | BOM YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Mar to 28Mar 15:00 | 102.0 | 107.6 | 72.7 | 78.9 | 105.2 | 112.4 |
| 27Feb to 26Mar | – | 5.6 | – | 6.2 | – | 7.2 |
| 26Feb | 4.0 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 7.2 |
| 22Feb to 25Feb | – | 1.6 | – | 1.7 | – | 4.2 |
| 20Feb to 21Feb | – | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.7 | – | 4.2 |
| 11Feb to 19Feb | – | 1.6 | – | 1.5 | – | 4.2 |
| 10Feb | 0.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.5 | – | 4.2 |
| 27Jan to 09Feb | – | 1.5 | – | 1.1 | – | 4.2 |
| 25Jan to 26Jan | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 01Jan to 24Jan | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Date Range | Manual Period | Manual YTD | Digital Period | Digital YTD | BOM Period | BOM YTD |
The rain gauge works by first filling the measuring cylinder (about 26mm maximum), then overflowing into the main body. Until this point in the year, we’ve only had small amounts of rain so the overflow hasn’t been needed. Below are the photographs of the five measurements required for the reading.
Below is the BOM’s final tracking map for Severe Tropical Cyclone Narella, a rare cyclone that impacted three states / territories while still a cyclone.
Although the digital rain gauge wasn’t entirely accurate, the graphs show how steady the rainfall was across the 31 hours.
The south drain looking west from a bridge over the drain at the eastern end of Stan Twight Reserve, which is on the left. Below is looking east.
We achieved this morning’s walk in before the rain from Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle started, we’ll provide a rainfall update in the next few days.
Bonus photograph – the lights on at the Stan Twight Reserve club rooms at dawn, just ‘cos it looks cool.
