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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Division 11 Scorecard: Cr Ellie Smith’s First Year, Checked Against the Minutes
Independent scorecard auditing Cr Ellie Smith’s first year across 8 priority areas. Full attendance proven against official council minutes; outcomes lag advocacy.
The Weather Prophet Over the Range: What I Found When I Tested Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones forecast Queensland seasons from planetary cycles at Crohamhurst, one valley over from us. I rebuilt his method and ran it against 130 years of rainfall, then went back and tested the planets and the sun directly. Here is what I found, and where a fan of the man lands when the numbers come back empty.
July 2026 in Dayboro: the driest July I have on record, and the air was not even dry
July 2026 delivered Dayboro’s driest July on record with 7.8 mm rainfall and record warm days, yet overnight lows stayed remarkably normal despite clear skies.
The Quiet Revision, Part Two: The Worst Case Climate Scenario Just Got Cut Again
In April the climate science community quietly retired its most cited worst case scenario. This month the final CMIP7 numbers landed and they cut the projections again. We pulled the data apart and found something odd on the way through: the CO2 went down, and the projected warming went up.