What's the temperature where you are???

659 am Friday looks like another wet day
61 feels 61

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Saturday 26th January 9.49a.m. Heavy grey sky. Light wind 3.7 / 5.5kph E, Hg 60%, Temp is 21.3c / 70.3F headed for 25c / 77F

Cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day then tending northerly 15 to 20 km/h in the late evening. No skywatching again :(

Moon 98.4%

Cyclone Kirrily hovered over the Coral Sea collecting water for days, so where is the rain?​

2 hours 43 mins ago​

By Arianna Levy​

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Strong wind gusts battered the coast as Cyclone Kirrily passed through but the system brought little rain. (ABC News: Victoria Pengilley)

It's the case of the missing rain.

The now ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily came with similarities in formation and strength to Tropical Cyclone Debbie, which battered the coast in 2017, but the system largely held off on the predicted rainfall.

It was described by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) on Friday as "a wind event rather than a rain event", despite it initially forecasting localised daily rain totals between 200-300 millimetres within a 24 hour period, after its coastal crossing.

There were fears it would bring damaging winds and heavy rainfall but graziers in north-west Queensland say the impact of ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily has, so far, been minimal.

Towns like Charters Towers, Hughenden and Richmond were expected to be in the firing line, but this morning woke to gentle rain and no wind.

At Virginia Park, north-east of Charters Towers, grazier Ben Bennetto was prepared for an intense weather event.

"Everything you heard was all pointing to the fact that we were looking at a pretty severe event," Mr Bennetto said.
 

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