events

* Most phenomenal rainfall recored on Springbrook plateau occurred on the 19-20th Feburary 1954 when a
cyclone crossed the coast at the Tweed and dumped 1025 mm (41 inches) in 36 hours.

* 1956 was another wet year with the same magnitude of flood to the 1954 floods.

* The heaviest rainfall Record at Tallai.... was on the 2nd of March 1999. At around 8pm the rain started....
   moderate at first...but soon increased to torrential rain which lasted till around 11am. My brothers and I
   drove out to see the floods. Our creek was right over the road... in fact the council had to repair the road
   due to erosion left from the flood. Anyway, the rain was still coming down.. once we made it to the Robina
   town centre the rain had stopped... Robina is about 5 mins drive away. On our return to home we hit the
   rain again,, roads were closed.. the soccer fields were all submerged. Roads cut off. I was down rescuing
   some of the plants.... Please see the Brisbane Storm Chasers Link and check out the members gallery to
   see the damage..... star posts bent, trees (4 metre tall) bent or flattened.

* January 1940 - fierce hailstorm dumped ice the size of golf balls that striped and killed most of the fruit
   trees on Springbrook mountain, left dents in corrugated iron roofs... some guy.. Eddie Armor waited the
   the storm out at One lane Road.. was astonished that the hail hail had torn right through the galvanised iron
   canopy of his truck.

Amazingly for a land mass so close to the ocean... Springbrook has recored 3 snowfalls this century.
* 1948 ? no info on this

* 1978 ? My father took us to Springbrook to see the snow... he told me that it was in drains along the road.
Dam it... I wish I could remember it

* 1984 My source is the Gold Coast Bulletin...
- regions heaviest snowfalls occurred on the ridges near Uki, 15km from Murwillumba. My guest is that they
were refering to the Border Ranges... where 15 centimetres of snow was recorded during the afternoon.
(3rd July).
- Artist Ken Tie.. moved from Melbourne.. said he looked out his window at midday adn the grass was blanketed by snow. " The snow started falling at midday.. it kept floating down for 3 hours, then there was a break for 1 hour and it started coming down again after 4:30" he said.
- Mt Tambourine only had a few flurries of snow combared to the more sustained falls on the southern parts of the Mc Pherson Range.

* 2000.. 27th July around midday Springbrook has some flurries of snow, which did not settle.