Weather at Cypress Gardens

We are lucky our council provides us with an automatic weather station on the Boobegan Creek Lock adjacent to our site. The real-time data feeds into the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) roughly once an hour where we can access it on our computing devices.

On our phones there is the excellent BOM weather app which provides detailed forecasts and the rain radar for our area. Many will be familiar with this app.

For detailed information on actual rainfall and river heights we need to turn to the web pages best viewed on our laptops. Use the link:

http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/flood/rain_river.shtml

Half-way down the page we find the rainfalls table:

We can view the rainfall data over different periods, but I find the 24hr data the most useful. Clicking on that link gives us the giant table for all the Gold Coast gauges. Select the Boobegan Creek row which I copied on Monday 28 February 2022:

You can see what you already know in that we had a very wet week, 578 mm in the 7 days to 28 February, and with the rain finally easing.

I know several residents have rain gauges and might find it useful to compare their instruments with the official figures.

For the height of Boobegan Creek coming over the lock weir we start at the same link as above and click on the River Height Data for the Nerang River. Again This gives us the giant table for all the Gold Coast river heights. We have to home in on Boobegan Ck Lock, again this is for Monday 28 February 2022:

We see the water is flowing 1.80 m over the weir which is quite a sight. (I would occasionally see the weir overflow from the other side of the creek when I lived in Rhode Island.) Going one step further we can click on Plot to get a visual plot of how the height has varied, and will note the level is still rising:

Michael Rees, ILU 9, mjrees@gmail.com, 28 February 2022