BOM Rain Radar Question.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:48 pm
OK, so clutching at straws trying to increase optimism about this years fishing....
I'm a FFF forum dreamer who reads all the posts and doesn't go fishing enough, LOL. More of an academic nerd who figures out things to the nth degree then catches bugger all in real life! Not a doer like Flicken who is out there often and gives the good oil!
One of the things I like to look at the recent rainfall maps to help with thinking about where to try focus fishing strategy for the coming season. This year shows pretty low rainfall all over, with Sth Alligator and Wildman/ Mary regions catching the best patch of rainfall, but still only in the "400-600mm" (3 months till now) range and not where I want it to be.
http://www.bom.gov.au/web03/ncc/www/awa ... est.nt.pdf
Something I wonder about all the time is how people use rainfall data to decide where and when to go fishing. The river height gauges say what levels the metered sites are at, and I got some great info from other forum members last year about the Daly but the fact is that there is no gauge at the Sth Alligator, Wildman or Mary river. The rainfall gauges say how much has fallen and where, across a much bigger spectrum of all catchments. And the rain radar give real-time info about how heavy it is raining right now and for the past hour-or-so.
So some questions for conversation, please help me out here:
1. Rainfall Data:
a) which rain gauge locations give good advice for which fishing regions (especially Mary, Wildman, South Alligator regions), and what is the magic rainfall number for that gauge?
b) how long after a certain rainfall amount should you wait to go try that spot?
2. BOM rain radar:
a) Does anyone know or have opinion if the radar colour (eg blue, yellow, red) equates to a certain amount of rainfall, eg per hour?
Last year I tried, for Elizabeth river, looking at size/ colour on the rain radar, then checking the rainfall data, then looking at the river height, then going up the Elizabeth to find the fresh pumping down once the river gauge started to drop. When we got there it was still surging out (we were still too early) and we got blasted by a storm on the way home, but hey, that's adventure isn't it.
I'm a FFF forum dreamer who reads all the posts and doesn't go fishing enough, LOL. More of an academic nerd who figures out things to the nth degree then catches bugger all in real life! Not a doer like Flicken who is out there often and gives the good oil!
One of the things I like to look at the recent rainfall maps to help with thinking about where to try focus fishing strategy for the coming season. This year shows pretty low rainfall all over, with Sth Alligator and Wildman/ Mary regions catching the best patch of rainfall, but still only in the "400-600mm" (3 months till now) range and not where I want it to be.
http://www.bom.gov.au/web03/ncc/www/awa ... est.nt.pdf
Something I wonder about all the time is how people use rainfall data to decide where and when to go fishing. The river height gauges say what levels the metered sites are at, and I got some great info from other forum members last year about the Daly but the fact is that there is no gauge at the Sth Alligator, Wildman or Mary river. The rainfall gauges say how much has fallen and where, across a much bigger spectrum of all catchments. And the rain radar give real-time info about how heavy it is raining right now and for the past hour-or-so.
So some questions for conversation, please help me out here:
1. Rainfall Data:
a) which rain gauge locations give good advice for which fishing regions (especially Mary, Wildman, South Alligator regions), and what is the magic rainfall number for that gauge?
b) how long after a certain rainfall amount should you wait to go try that spot?
2. BOM rain radar:
a) Does anyone know or have opinion if the radar colour (eg blue, yellow, red) equates to a certain amount of rainfall, eg per hour?
Last year I tried, for Elizabeth river, looking at size/ colour on the rain radar, then checking the rainfall data, then looking at the river height, then going up the Elizabeth to find the fresh pumping down once the river gauge started to drop. When we got there it was still surging out (we were still too early) and we got blasted by a storm on the way home, but hey, that's adventure isn't it.