A Planting Guide for the Fridge, Worked on Together
Six A4 magnetic planting guides from GreenThumb Magnets. We compared their charts with GardenBuddy data before print, and it improved ours.
Fire Moves Faster Than You Think. Be at the Hall This Saturday
Our own rain gauge says the driest July to September in the station record, and the fire services say south-east Queensland is in for a rough season. One Saturday afternoon at Mount Pleasant Hall gets you ready. The photos in this post show why you want to go.
Dayboro Flood Outlook: El Niño, Viral Rain Maps and What the Evidence Says
Big flood claims are doing the rounds, but what do the maps actually tell us about Dayboro? I check the El Niño messaging, local creek records and October rain outlook to separate what deserves our attention from what the evidence cannot support.
September 2026 in Dayboro: 4.2 mm of rain and the highest pressure we have ever logged
4.2 mm for the whole month, nine days at 30 degrees or hotter and the highest September pressure on our station, confirmed by 32 years of reanalysis data. Two dry Septembers back to back. Here is what the numbers say and what it means for tanks, paddocks and gardens going into October.
Soil moisture now reads the root zone, with a deep reserve line
The soil moisture figure on dayboro.au now comes from the probe at 20 cm, where seedlings and veggies actually drink. The 35 cm probe is still there, reported as the deep reserve.
From lyndhurst-hill.info to dayboro.localbuddy.au: what changed, and what never will
There is a new home for the Dayboro community feed at dayboro.localbuddy.au, and that has caused some confusion. The short version: nothing is going away. The weather stays on dayboro.au, the events stay on dayboro.au, and the Dayboro Lions Business Directory stays the authority on local businesses, hosted free, as it has been since 2017. This is the long version of how we got here.
We Hit 36.9 On Sunday. I Spent Two Days Trying To Prove It Wrong
The station read 36.9 degrees on Sunday afternoon, the hottest September figure it has ever logged. I did not believe it, so I went looking for the fault. A second weather station in Dayboro read exactly the same number, and what I found instead was a real problem in my own record that runs the other way.
The new Dayboro weather live display: put the station on your TV, your phone, or your shop window
There is a new screen at weather.dayboro.au. A full screen live display of the Dayboro station, built for smart TVs, wall tablets and phones. It refreshes itself every minute, flips to a dark theme at night, shows BOM warnings the moment they land, and has an ambient mode that slowly rotates through big glanceable scenes. Free for everyone, with the full forecast set for members, and businesses can have their own branded version.
August 2026 in Dayboro: a record run of 25 degree days and the highest pressure the station has seen.
25.2 mm for the month, eighteen days that reached 25 degrees or better, and the highest mean pressure August has ever logged here. Two short rain pulses interrupted three long dry ridging stretches. Here is what the numbers say, and what an El Nino running very strong plus a wobbling positive Indian Ocean Dipole means for spring.
Bushfire Risk This Spring: What Our Own Data Says and What to Do About It
El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole conditions mirror the 2019/20 Black Summer setup. Local data shows below-average rainfall. See essential property protection steps.