In 2008, the BOM’s top climate scientist announced that Australia is in a permanent drought.
January 4, 2008
This drought may never break
IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday.
“Perhaps we should call it our new climate,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s head of climate analysis, David Jones.
Not quite as stupid as the UK’s chief scientist who said that we would all have to move to Antarctica, or Obama’s top science adviser who said that Arctic winters will soon be ice-free.
27 January 2013
The BBC’s Nick Bryant reports from Sydney that the river in Bundaberg is already above the flood levels witnessed in 2010, and meteorologists fear it could rise another metre, reaching levels not seen in 70 years.
BBC News – Australian state of Queensland braces for flooding
I’m sure they’ll blame it on CAGW
From September 2010 to June 2012 it rained far more than average here in Caloundra – 100 km north of Brisbane. Our average annual rainfall is about 64 inches per year but I have not seen a period as wet as the last few years since the 70s.
Now we have ex-tropical cyclone Oswald pounding us for at least 3 days so far.
Why they keep calling it “ex” is a mystery as wind gusts are up to 120-130 km/hr which I thought qualified a a cat 1 cyclone – but what would I know.
I do know there is something different about this though.
Normally when a cyclone crosses the coast it weakens rapidly and becomes a rain depression – lots of rain and little wind.
This thing crossed the coast days ago and the centre has continued over land bringing high winds instead of running out of “puff” as they normally do.
We’ve had 3 days of strong winds blowing down trees while the centre has been over land all the time. As at Monday morning 28 Jan it appears to be moving away with winds easing.
Goodbye and good riddance Oswald.
Tim Flannery made another recent pronouncement about ‘droughts in Australia’ saying that they would return soon due to Global warming. Ever since, the flood situation on the east coast of Australia has worsened to cover the strip from Cape York to the Illawarra and Nowra. Good work Tim.