Northern Rivers & Rural News
Storm season arrives with a bang!
Storm season arrives with a bang!
By Margaret Dekker
The annual late-Spring storm season arrived with a whopping bang or two on Friday night as an intense storm front – complete with threatening electrical activity – bore down across the Northern Rivers, signaling the start of the annual storm season.
‘The front out front’ at Suffolk Park Photo: Kurt Henson
Late on Thursday, October 2, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning to residents of the North particularly Grafton and Coffs Harbour for heavy rainfall and large hail which was later downgraded to a Storm Weather alert for most of the region including the Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, Tenterfield and Grafton areas.
Despite the ominous conditions, rainfall totals were kept to below 15 millimeters at the major centres with Evans Head recording the highest falls with 14.4mm up to 9am on Saturday; Murwillumbah 13mm; Ballina 11.6mm; Lismore 10mm; Byron Bay 7.2mm; Yamba 7.2mm and Grafton recording 1.4mm.
