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.
Strongest El Nino in 75 Years? We Checked Every Number in the Headline
A claim by claim verification of the July 2026 super El Nino headlines against raw NOAA CPC weekly data, the Bureau of Meteorology SOI archive, multi model forecasts and a twenty year Dayboro rain gauge record. The packaging is hype. The ocean is not.
June 2026 in Dayboro: the wettest June in ten years, in the middle of an El Nino
Dayboro recorded 95.9 mm in June 2026, the wettest June in ten years, despite an established El Niño. Days ran warm, nights stayed mild, and not a single frost. Here is how it compares with every June since 2008.
Dayboro show Weather
The Dayboro Show is on 4–5 July 2026 at the Showgrounds. Our Dayboro Model and the Bureau both call sunny and dry, tops near 24°C with cold foggy starts. Pack a jacket for the morning, sunscreen for the middle.
Super El Nino 2026/27: Is This 1877 Again, and What Does It Mean for Dayboro?
A data-grounded look at whether the 2026 super El Nino really echoes the catastrophic 1877 event, testing the ocean, sunspot, planetary and Indian Ocean Dipole evidence, with consequences for southeast Queensland and a grow-your-own resilience message.
Prose versus Table, I did it wrong.
I tend to confuse myself at the best of days, and as it so happens… I buggered it up yet again. The website was reading the information from the prose it produces, instead of reading it from the model table.
Autumn 2026
What was the weather in Autumn 2026