February, 2008

Speaking of stinking hot days in the last post, the stench hanging around Rocky lately is overwhelming. The flood waters in the river have dropped, and we are left with stinking mud and other stuff which seems to hang over Rocky.

The closest thing I can compare it to is the smell from a pig stye, the wet mud with pig poop and rotten food all mushed together. It’s crazy.

So that’s another reason I am liking the rain at the moment. When it’s raining that smell goes away.

So it’s the wet season at the moment, and it sure has been wet. There’s been mild flooding due to heavy rainfall up north, which of course has to flow somewhere but Rocky managed to get out of it pretty well.

The general pattern seems to be a patch of rainy days, followed by days of showers in the afternoon, followed by stinking hot and humid days.

As an example, the weather last Thursday was as follows:

Rockhampton, Queensland Current Conditions – 7:00 AM EST Feb. 7: “Temperature: 75°F / 24°C | Humidity: 94% | Pressure: 29.59in / 1002hPa | Conditions: Partly Cloudy | Wind Direction: NNW | Wind Speed: 5mph / 7km/h | Updated: 7:00 AM EST”

(Via Weather Underground – Rockhampton, Queensland.)

So at 7:00am, we were 24°C with a sweating hot 94% humidity. It doesn’t get that hot in Rocky, but the humidity is a killer. It literally gets hard to breath.

At this time of the year, I think I much prefer it to be raining then sunny and humid.