Yeppoon’s Torrential Rainfalls Create Havoc
February 12, 2008
Yeppoon has experienced heavy rainfalls in the last 48 hours. Today was by far the biggest down poor with many local streets being closed.
The road to Emu Park was closed, as well as the road to Rockhampton for some time. Roslyn Bay was cut off from the rest of the world whichresulted in many people being stuck at work. Beaches restaurant got a direct hit with lots of electrical damage that seeped into the kitchen wrecking havoc with electrical appliances. Since the electrician couldn’t access the place due to road closures, the restaurant was only able to serve pizza’s tonight.
Other Yeppoon residents who work in Rockhampton couldn’t go to work, because of road closures. The official weather site (BOM) has recorded massive amounts of rain within a short timespan today. From 9AM Tuesday we had 130mm of rain within 24 hours. This was due to a tropical monsoon trough which battered many coastal and inland towns in Queensland today and yesterday.
Lucky enough it didn’t eventuate into a full blown cyclone which apparently is a little different from a monsoon.
Here is what weather[dot]com has to say about the difference of the two:
CYCLONE An area of closed pressure circulation with rotating and converging winds, the center of which is a relative pressure minimum. The circulation is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Also called a low pressure system and the term used for a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean. Other phenomena with cyclonic flow may be referred to by this term, such as dust devils, tornadoes, and tropical and extra-tropical systems. The opposite of an anticyclone or a high pressure system. MONSOON The seasonal shift of winds created by the great annual temperature variation that occurs over large land areas in contrast with associated ocean surfaces. The monsoon is associated primarily with the moisture and copious rains that arrive with the southwest flow across southern India. The name is derived from the word mausim, Arabic for season. This pattern is most evident on the southern and eastern sides of Asia, although it does occur elsewhere, such as in the southwestern United States.
The system has now moved further south with the Sunshine Coast and the inland being next on the agenda. Flash floods have resulted into many people being stranded.
Yeppoon’s Torrential Rainfalls Create Havoc…
Yeppoon has experienced outstanding weather patterns in recent weeks. from memory I can hardly remember when we had that much rain in Yeppoon as in the last 24 hours. It would have been similar to 1991 heavy rainfalls that created flash flooding all ar…
Yeppoon and all the areas around it have certainly had an amazing amount of rain. Just on the corner near our place the road was closed and water was rushing over it at chest height. There was also a bridge near our place that is about 2m high, and from the bent grass the water had gone at least a metre over it.
There is some photos of the floods near our place at http://www.briterwebdesign.com/blog/archives/yeppoon-flooding.
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