Aussie harvest weather

[mcfarms]

Mallee

Don't know if your around or harvesting but starting to read some reports of harvest moisture causing downgrades , sounding moreso in Western Austrailia. Any ability to further enlighten us?
Know the crop is a big one but not in the bin yet.

[mcfarms]

A month's rain dumped on WA wheat belt
Brett Dutschke, Thursday November 3, 2011 - 21:32 EDT
Parts of Western Australia's wheat belt has been drenched by a month's worth of rain in under an hour as severe storms thundered across the region.

Many locations in the Central Wheat Belt and nearby districts had 30 to 50mm in under two hours on Thursday afternoon.

One of the hardest hit places was Cunderdin airfield, which gained more than 50mm in less than two hours, its highest daily rainfall in more than five years. Cunderdin's monthly average is only 12mm and more than a month's worth fell in just 10 minutes. The storm which brought this heavy rain also produced an 83km/h wind gust.

Just to the south, Brookton picked up 45mm, an 18-month high and its heaviest November rain on more than 100 years of records. This is also three times the monthly average.

The heaviest storms were on and east of the Perth Hills, only brushing Perth's suburbs with about 10mm.

Perth and the rest of southwest WA is not in the clear yet. Further severe storms are possible on Friday morning with a chance of damaging winds and large hail. During Friday afternoon and evening the main storm area will head to eastern parts of WA.

[malleefarmer]

Apparently according to a mate over there he
was on 10% shot grain before latest event and
protien is average at best.
My neck of the woods 10 plus days before wheat
harvest but we've got the remnants of WA
weather from tonight onwards.
Hard 1wheat jumped $40 per tone on Tuesday
and awb are now within $2 of top price and
another 6 companies $2 to 5 lower again.
Myself if I get h1 or u2 will just store in bulk
handling terminal and watch the market, will fill
contracts with lesser grade wheat.
Pool operators active this week lifting returns for
h1 as well now about $15 behind best cash but
of course we all know any pooled grain the RISK
is 100% with farmers were as cash it's done and
dusted no risk transaction has been executed

[mcfarms]

Thanks so much keep us informed, years ago my father said to me that the sad thing about this business is for one person to prosper it seemed someone else had to have problems. Good luck if the rains come we've all had that happen. I know here if they start late August it's often a long September. Just reading the forecast and it looks unsettled in the east as well for sure next week.

Thundery days brewing for eastern Australia
Josh Fisher, Saturday November 5, 2011 - 09:54 EDT
Atmospheric conditions are ripening for widespread thunderstorm activity across eastern Australia during the next few days.

Thunderstorms develop when warm, humid air near the ground is forced upward by converging surface winds in an unstable atmosphere. Conditions are already priming for storms over Queensland and New South Wales as high amounts of moisture are drawn from the warm waters of the Coral Sea. The moisture laden air will be greeted by a large low pressure trough that is slowly pushing east across the nation.

This trough has already triggered severe thunderstorms during the past few days, which delivered record daily November totals to many locations in WA.

Thunderstorms will fire-up in Queensland and northern New South Wales today, but will engulf much eastern Australia on Sunday as the trough deepens over the region. These storms bring the risk of strong wind gusts and heavy downpours, which could lead to flash flooding. Multiple troughs are then expected to maintain thunderstorm activity in the east on most days next week.