Australia’s Historic Drought

The Puffington Host is still talking about the historic drought in Australia, which the BOM shows as affecting almost 3% of the country over the last three years.

http://www.bom.gov.au

But it sure has been hot there, with two thirds of the country below normal for the last three months.

http://www.bom.gov.au

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27 Responses to Australia’s Historic Drought

  1. Neil says:

    My personal weather station (horribly sited, made in China etc. etc) is showing this year in Sydney to be running cooler by a degree or so than last year. But weather isn’t climate…

    However, I’m seeing a weather pattern I last saw back in the mid 70’s… lots of rain (LOTS of rain), overcast days and things generally cooler.

    Welcome back, La Nina.

    • definately cooler at this time than any other year,lots of lovely rain,sunshiny days the weather is absolutely beautifull,if you listen to the mins there allways less than they ever were.

  2. Brendon says:

    But it sure has been hot there, with two thirds of the country below normal for the last three months.

    Wrong. You’re looking at Maximum anomaly’s only.

    The Minimum Anomaly shows 3/4 of the country above normal. About 1/2 of the country more than 1 degree above normal.

    Interesting indeed.

  3. Brendon says:

    Of course the minimums have been high. Most of the last three months has had >50% cloud cover at night over Sydney.

    Um, ok. Sydney is one small part of Australia, which is one small part fo the world, but I guess you know that.

    There has been heaps of clouds and rain during the day.

    So the positive feedback of clouds at night are great enough to more than offset the daytime anomalies.

    Good find Neil!

    • Amino says:

      Brendon says:
      October 19, 2010 at 4:13 am

      Um, ok. Sydney is one small part of Australia

      3% is a small part of Australia. But global warming advocates, who, it appears, don’t have anything else to do, say it’s the beginning of the end of the world.

  4. Amino says:

    3% of the country? Sounds normal.

    But no!! It’s the falling acorn.

  5. Amino says:

    Since this part of Australia is nearest the equator this yellow is probably left over warmth from El Nino:

    http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5929/capture1czg.png

    With La Nina beginning to take over that area those colors won’t be the same next year at this time.

    • Joe Geshel says:

      But the warmists will pull out their different colored crayons. Watch and see.

      • We now know that all the gages have been relocated to ! next to air cons ! ashphalt or cemented areas,hot water outlets even under the path flight of planes as they take off,cmon lets get real,

    • Amino tell me if im wrong and anyone else as well
      there is no more water/no less water then the beginning of time it simply moves,a dam is built,more ice less ice,movement of islands,one of the poles at one time had no ice so thats why you can find seashells on high mountains they were once underwater!

  6. SMS says:

    Our local weather woman here in Adelaide quoted September 2010 as the coldest September in 17 years. It looks like October 2010 could be just as cold. We’ve had lots of rain as well and our reservoirs are full. Just in time for the mega expensive Desal plant to come on-line.

    Watering restrictions are being partially lifted starting in December. I would think that the city elders would want to lift all the restrictions and get people to using water at a much greater rate than historical so they can justify the Desal plant before it becomes known as a White Elephant.

  7. MikeA says:

    Yea that’s really funny, made me realise that if we average the water table over a hundred years that’s fine as well. We’ll have to get the drought relief back from the farmers for the last three years.

    • I feel for the farmers even though they have paid to receive water they never have and yet the government wants to turn us against them for (wasting our water) on what our food production,they should have access at all times,if the gov had said to us hey listen were in a drought but the farmers need the water to grow food and could you all use less i feel everyone would have complied with that instead they are trying to turn us against each other with there silly demands.

  8. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

    Great article, why do they put the #$^@$#%@#^@ dams where it never rains?

    Amazing!

    • If you have foxtell just go to weather and put in your postcode to get dam levels for your area check out the dam levels for all states,perth 98% full,queensland,Adelaide,melbourne,all high levels just poor old NSW about 40% dam level what does that tell you.

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