KINGAROY RAINFALL

2013

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)

SunWater - Queensland Water Storage Information

The view above is from our house in Kingaroy looking SW towards the Bunya Mountains.

The equipment is supplied by Brisbane Storm Chasers.

(1) These falls were the result of Ex Tropical Cyclone Oswald.

The pics below around Kingaroy were taken on Sunday 27th January, the Australia Day weekend,
the same weekend as in 1974 when south east Queensland flooded.

At the corner of Kingaroy and Avoca Streets.
The IGA corner.



Kingaroy Creek flowing through the town sports fields area and under River Road.

River Road just past First Avenue where the water from above the old Butter Factory winds it's way through the Memorial Park and the sports areas of the Primary and High School over First Avenue and out past the Sewerage Farm and into the Stuart River.


The southern outskirts of Kingaroy. The Bunya Highway.

Looking down Pound Street with Somerset Street on the right. The water overflowed over both streets and flowed down Avoca Street past IGA, as seen above.

Alford Street near the Primary School


The Memorial Park on the western side looking towards Belle Street.

Belle Street and Belle Street Park

Swickers and Clark and Swendson Road

Readings are taken at 9.00 am

2013 RAINFALL

Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
1			1	7		.5
2		6.5	63			.5				7
3			31			.5
4
5			.5
6			.5
7			1
8
9		1
10		6.5		6.5		3
11	3		3.5	5	1						17.5	.5
12			2	4	5	.5					.5	7
13						3					18	4
14				1	5						7
15											1
16									3		1
17					2.5				42		.5	4
18				4			12	4
19		27
20		54.5	3.5				4
21		7	1.5			12
22						6.5					1
23					14.5		6				1
24											15.5
25	(1) 19.5	5	2.5								11
26	(1) 15	97
27	(1) 242	19
28	(1) 72.5	7	3						.5
29	(1) 4.5				.5				2.5
30					2.5					21	11.5
31					1							8.5
Monthly Totals	356.5	230.5	113	27.5	32	26.5	22	4	48	28	85.5	24
Days Rained	6	10	12	6	8	8	3	1	4	2	12	5
Cumulative Rainfall	356.5	587	700	727.5	759.5	786	808	812	860	888	973.5	997.5
Cumulative Days Rained	6	16	28	34	42	50	53	54	58	60	72	77

2012 RAINFALL

Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
1						.5
2					3	.5
3						51
4						1					9	2
5			3.5		7
6
7			1
8		15
9		1
10											58
11		3.5				1	5			4	8.5	1
12		11					2			13
13		10					9
14		11	1				26
15			5.5	3
16	2.5		8
17	11
18	2		14				3				55
19							5.5
20												1
21		40	3.5
22		42	8						5			6.5
23			19								6.5
24	1.5	4						2.5				11
25	98	11				6			1
26	53	10			10	5.5
27	9	4				43	1					4
28	8			15		21.5				2
29	3			10		1.5				2
30									1.5
31					1.5			2
Monthly Totals	188	162.5	63.5	28	21.5	131.5	51.5	4.5	7.5	21	137	25.5
Days Rained	9	12	9	3	4	10	7	2	3	4	5	6
Cumulative Rainfall	188	350.5	414	442	463.5	595	646.5	651	658.5	679.5	816.5	842
Cumulative Days Rained	9	21	30	33	37	47	54	56	59	63	68	74

2011 RAINFALL

Monthly Totals	305	58	98.5	29	57	15	14.5	37	13	101	1.5	108.5
Days Rained	14	5	7	6	5	3	3	3	2	10	2	8
Cumulative Rainfall	305	363	461.5	490.5	547.5	562.5	577	614	627	728	729.5	838
Cumulative Days Rained	14	19	26	32	37	40	43	46	48	58	60	68
Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
1
2	16
3	14						.5
4	20		1		1					1
5			35
6	14	1	4							1.5		6.5
7	16	1								12		18.5
8	28									31		33
9	16	3.5		3.5	30					5		4.5
10	48								6			30
11	94											9
12	2.5			9		7.5						4.5
13						4.5
14
15										9
16							12			4.5		2.5
17		24					2
18	4.5
19	12		17	12.5
20	11		33
21	9		5		4
22		28.5	3.5
23				3
24					11			7			.5	2.5
25											1
26
27								10		18
28				.5				20
29				.5						2
30					11	3			7
31										17
Monthly Totals	305	58	98.5	29	57	15	14.5	37	13	101	1.5	111
Days Rained	14	5	7	6	5	3	3	3	2	10	2	9
Cumulative Rainfall	305	363	461.5	490.5	547.5	562.5	577	614	627	728	729.5	840.5
Cumulative Days Rained	14	19	26	32	37	40	43	46	48	58	60	69

2010 RAINFALL

Monthly Totals	68	102.5	237	36.5	30	8	18	104.5	134.5	104	26	416
Days Rained	7	8	11	4	6	3	3	6	10	7	7	20
Cumulative Rainfall	68	170.5	407.5	444	474	482	500	604.5	739	843	869	1285
Cumulative Days Rained	7	15	26	30	36	39	42	48	58	65	72	92
Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
1	.5	46	.5	20	1						1	1
2	.5	13	58.5									30
3			49				5.5					3
4	6		1									3.5
5									6.5	10		17
6			90						60		8	4
7			14
8	28	8.5	12							4		3.5
9	2.5		2							39		3
10								1.5
11			4					59	10.5	9.5
12				12	2.5					12		51
13				3							.5
14
15						1			1.5		2
16		20								28
17		2.5										61
18	2.5	10			3.5				1.5			1
19						1.5			1.5		6.5	19
20							5	18	9			74
21					1			9.5	15
22		1.5		1.5
23											5.5	29
24								13				11
25					14				2	1.5		4
26								3.5				19
27												50
28		1										26
29			5		8		7.5		27			6
30	28		1			5.5					2.5
31
Monthly Totals	68	102.5	237	36.5	30	8	18	104.5	134.5	104	26	416
Days Rained	7	8	11	4	6	3	3	6	10	7	7	20
Cumulative Rainfall	68	170.5	407.5	444	474	482	500	604.5	739	843	869	1285
Cumulative Days Rained	7	15	26	30	36	39	42	48	58	65	72	92

2009 RAINFALL

Monthly Totals	59.5	99	14	48.5	62.5	82	0	0	21	41	24	123.5
Days Rained	8	9	7	8	6	7	0	0	3	7	5	10
Cumulative Rainfall	59.5	158.5	172.5	221	283.5	365.5	365.5	365.5	386.5	427.5	451.5	575
Cumulative Days Rained	8	17	24	32	38	45	45	45	48	55	60	70
Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
1		1.5							2
2	6											5
3	1	2	.5	3.5	1
4	1			3.5		.5
5			5.5	19					8	9
6											3.5 (plus a beetle)
7					2	4					.5
8									11
9
10			.5								3.5
11		8		.5						1
12		.5	.5	1
13			2	3.5	1					.5		34
14		17		17						4	3.5
15		4
16						8.5						30
17		1	4.5
18											13
19					10					1.5
20		5			46							.5
21		60										8
22			.5			.5
23	34					19.5						1
24	1.5				2.5							1
25
26	2			.5		3				1
27	13					46				24		9
28	1
29												11
30												24
31

The above chart, converted from points to mm, is produced from a newspaper clipping in 1970.

A schoolmate, Don Knopke, found it while cleaning his Uncles office.

For comparison with actual rainfall, as I believe that the Sun controls the majority of our ( the whole of the Earth ) weather, below are graphs showing the changing sunspot activity.

Thanks to The Solar Physics Group at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for the image below.

Here is a link to the graphs
shown below.

Thanks to
NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center

Here
is another interesting site.

Last Updated : 07/01/2014 08:15 PM +1000