Fine weather we be havin’

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.