I know you don't care - but it's bucketing down in Cairns today. The damns (intentional) were already over 100%.
I saw happy cattle farmers at Coopers Creek the other night - and green fields out there too. What a strange land we live in.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued severe weather warnings for the entire state, including coastal areas.
Wild, windy weather on the way
Forecasters are predicting a week of blustery winds across Victoria. ....
The winds come after the warmest June night in eight years, with the temperature hitting 17.5 degrees at 5am today.
"There was warm air around and it didn't even need the sun to do it, it's a very unusual thing for that to happen," Mr Ryan said.
How low can our water storages go, I wonder? (down to around 27% capacity, last time I looked.) The Weather Bureau has just informed us that we (In Melbourne & Victoria) have just experienced the driest first 6 months of any year on record so far.
....The leaked report by the Department of Sustainability and Environment warned that sustained drought and the likelihood of further drying under an El Nino weather pattern had created a perilous environment for bushfires.
The report, by fire expert Paul Brockhoff, named Melbourne and its hinterlands as among Victoria’s driest and most at-risk regions.
Statistics released by the Bureau of Meteorology yesterday support the findings, with Melbourne clearly Australia’s most rain-starved capital city this year.
With just 158 millimetres falling in the city gauge, Melbourne has been almost twice as parched as the next driest city, Adelaide, which has received 307 millimetres since January 1.
Sydney has received more than four times as much rain as Melbourne, mocking Victoria’s reputation as ‘‘the garden state’’....
... or invade NZ!
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I so hope the rain keeps coming here and there.
