Whiskers
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Julia
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Just as I clicked onto your post, Whiskers, it has started to pour with rain here. Hallelujah! So very much needed.
chops_a_must
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We've had a very wintry last week.
Must be very bitter sweet for those in the wheatbelt right now because they do not want rain now at all.
chops_a_must
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We are getting quite a serious storm right now.
A lot of hail, the biggest I've seen in a while. The windows are copping a pounding.
The wheat farmers are going to be mighty pissed off...
A lot of hail, the biggest I've seen in a while. The windows are copping a pounding.
The wheat farmers are going to be mighty pissed off...
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Same-o here Chops. 40+ mils around much of Northern / Central Vic over the last few days. Good for growing a massive "crop" of Patterson's Curse if that's your fancy!
Forget wheat and canola - some genetic genius should come up with a way of converting Patto's into a valuable crop.
Then there's SE QLD.
WOW! What a downpour overnight - could be more evening storm cells on the way later. Cripes! PLEASE Lord, send some to WODONGA (only a puny 9 mils overnight - Hume rapidly depleting once more as the allocations get underway & Dart stady but LOW).
Ho-hum.
Have a good day, Chops.
aj
PS: Just had a look at the figures for one of my old posting bases - R.A.A.F. Amberley near Ipswich, QLD.
270 odd mils so far this month, with a long term average for Nov of 78!!!! Paddle, boys!
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Here's another doozy -
Alice Springs AP has had 155 mils in the 20 days of November to today!!!
That is a whopping 5.7 x their average Nov rainfall of 27 mils!
The Springs of Alice will certainly get a topping up....
Alice Springs AP has had 155 mils in the 20 days of November to today!!!
That is a whopping 5.7 x their average Nov rainfall of 27 mils!
The Springs of Alice will certainly get a topping up....
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Bloody storm isn't hitting the dams properly, need another 40% increase in combined dam level to call this "drought" is over. Of course i don't want to wish for more rains in that area since alot of families have lost everything, but for the sake for the rest of Brisbane residents, we still need more rain near the dams to generate a significant run out. (and misses other suburbs hehe)
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Raining steadily here in Hobart.
Funny thing this drought and economic cycle. Last time the economy fell in a hole (early 1990's) we were also in trouble with lack of water in the Hydro dams. Then the economy went to hell and it started raining. Storage went from 22% in 1991 to 86% by 1997. Maybe in for a repeat? The low this time was 17% earlier this year and it's 29% now.
It's an interesting cycle. Dams get low then the economy goes bust. I'd have to check the dates of recessions but I'm pretty sure the cycle has happend a few times before as well.
Funny thing this drought and economic cycle. Last time the economy fell in a hole (early 1990's) we were also in trouble with lack of water in the Hydro dams. Then the economy went to hell and it started raining. Storage went from 22% in 1991 to 86% by 1997. Maybe in for a repeat? The low this time was 17% earlier this year and it's 29% now.
It's an interesting cycle. Dams get low then the economy goes bust. I'd have to check the dates of recessions but I'm pretty sure the cycle has happend a few times before as well.
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Whiskers
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Looks like the storms are starting to build again today for SE Qld.
Looks like they're coming a bit further north and a bit more RED building in them too. Gotta fill them dams sooner or later... at least flood the Mary so they can't build the Traverston Dam.
Watchout Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay for a bit of wild weather this arvo.
Looks like they're coming a bit further north and a bit more RED building in them too. Gotta fill them dams sooner or later... at least flood the Mary so they can't build the Traverston Dam.
Watchout Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay for a bit of wild weather this arvo.
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Doyle and Flannery on ABC TV - on at the moment .
Two men in a tinnie ( see it on iview on the weekend probably)
downstream of Cubbie ... "In the last 111 years there have been 101 floods ... ands none in the last 7 years "
Many blaming the irrigation "upstream"
"and everyone is dirty on Qld."
Lol - ( I like these blokes and their humour)
Re Mitchell's Fort south of Bourke
"It's like a bit of history John"
"yep - a VERY little bit lol"
Two men in a tinnie ( see it on iview on the weekend probably)
downstream of Cubbie ... "In the last 111 years there have been 101 floods ... ands none in the last 7 years "
Many blaming the irrigation "upstream"
"and everyone is dirty on Qld."
Lol - ( I like these blokes and their humour)
Re Mitchell's Fort south of Bourke
"It's like a bit of history John"
"yep - a VERY little bit lol"
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In New England (NSW) last week it was deluge from Monday to Friday.
Prospector
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We have had 35ml in 3 MONTHS!
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We have had 35ml in 3 MONTHS!
Yet its still been cold ****e weather for that 3 months. I want some warm weather!
chops_a_must
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We have had 35ml in 3 MONTHS!
Just another reason Perth is better than that hole Prospector.
:WEST[ern]
Perth has recorded the wettest and coldest November in 17 years - the seventh-wettest on record - and the trend is set to continue.
WA Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Glenn Cook said a warm Indian Ocean and several high-level troughs -- or low-atmospheric pressure systems -- had produced the wintry weather Perth has experienced during the past few weeks.
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Just another reason Perth is better than that hole Prospector.
Ignoring the offence in your post Chops
that is the weird thing - we just aren't getting Perth's rain like we used to. The bloody Bureau keeps predicting not just showers, but actually rain - but then nothing!Why do you hate SA so much, you have never explained that! Victoria, New South Wales I can understand
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As has often been said in Tas, "hope we don't end up like WA!".Ignoring the offence in your post Chops
Why do you hate SA so much, you have never explained that! Victoria, New South Wales I can understand
That's a reference to the abrupt and seemingly permanent huge decline in rainfall in SW WA after the mid-1970's. If you look at a chart, it's as though rainfall crashed and never recovered.
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Hi Prospector,
It's bound to be something easy to explain - most irrationality is easily explained lol. His mother probly dropped him on his head when she holidayed in Adelaide once
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Plenty of stormy weather at "The Gap" in Brissbane last week
different contrast to the Pilbara... strange seeing hail...
This is'nt about the weather just curious if they still have the old red tram
near the casino in Adelaide that sold the best PIE FLOATER I have ever tasted
Much better than the one from the pie tram in Newcastle (NSW)
different contrast to the Pilbara... strange seeing hail...
This is'nt about the weather just curious if they still have the old red tram
near the casino in Adelaide that sold the best PIE FLOATER I have ever tasted
Much better than the one from the pie tram in Newcastle (NSW)
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If you bring in some proper Indian rain dancers, those from the wild west, the rain will fall steadily.We have had 35ml in 3 MONTHS!
They salute the rain gods by praying and dancing. (wait patiently until the proper dance starts).
