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The World's Start


Or do they? They were suppose to start yesterday and as of now Monday Afternoon
we still have not had a task. The weather has been epic since I arrived almost 2
weeks ago. But yesterday things went bad weather wise.


We were really happy to be down as a few hours later one of the biggest
thunderstorms I have ever seen dumped loads of rain on the town of Manilla.


The forecast I have to say is not great for the next few days as a tropical
storm sits in the North of Australia pulling moisture from the south towards us.


We had a hell of a monsoon last night! After the day’s task was cancelled the
storm clouds moved in, and it was only a matter of time before the deluge
arrived. We got about 34 mm of rain in 3 hours; it was so wet that huge puddles
were forming since the ground couldn’t absorb that much water so quickly...


The morning actually dawned cloudy (!) (the first cloudy-in-the-morning day
since getting here) with super-high humidity, so there was no rush to get up the
mountain...


OK, so the day has just been cancelled, due to impeding rain and embedded cu-nims
in the surrounding area. The overriding reason for this wet weather is a bunch
of low-pressure systems forming way to the north of us, one of which is
predicted to develop into a typhoon (hurricane) in the next few days or so.
These weather systems usually pass through northern Oz in Dec/Jan, but this year
they are late.