After a couple of relatively cool nights for October, the grass min
jumped 9C overnight (10C to 19C). Storm birds (koels) calling the
past 48 hours too (the channel-billed cuckoos have been around for a
couple of weeks though).

Some "storm fronts" past two evenings (no pyrotechnics). Bugger all
rain here, only very very light drizzle, but the radar indicated some
heavy patches to the SW through W at around dusk, about 40 km away.

The rain bands were moving fairly quickly to the NE, evaporating as
they went so barely reaching the coast between Mossman and Cape Trib
around midnight.

Bit unusual to have rain in October here anyway. Our first storms are
typically in Nov/Dec -- though I do recall a sequence of several very
good storms here in mid October 1964. (Ah... The good old days! ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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LID