It's raining! It's raining!

Yer getting good at this! I'm impressed!

I've ALWAYS been good at it!!!


A pro, in fact.

It's MIRANDA who sucks at it.

Weird, isn't it? All the recent rains & floods in Queensland & NSW & hardly a drop in these (southern Oz) parts for weeks & weeks & weeks! Remember when people used to say that Melbourne was a drag in winter because it rained all the time? If only! <sigh> (That's Lismore in the photograph, btw ...)

Any of it going to the goddam Murray this time?

I mean, a wet Lake Eyre is cute and all that......but what about the MURRAY???

BTW...it's raining here.

Had a certain amount of rain here, too. But still technically in drought.

Geeze! You guys must be competing with Mexico for hard times.

Yep - ain't no half way here - drought or flood! Having a plague of locusts in the Riverina, I hear!

. . . and a rain of frogs, perchance?

Haven't heard anything about the Murray water levels , Deb. Must investigate further.



Lake Eyre is sensational at the moment! (Did you watch the 7:30 Report tonight? Wow. Lots of green bits & squillions of birds! )

And it's been (finally!!!!) raining here today (this afternoon), too! More. more, more urgently needed!
(BTW last night Melbourne recorded its highest May o/night temperature since 1850-something. (18 C ) Warmest May night on record so far. Sort of tells one something, doesn't it? Weather's gone completely bonkers!)

Just anxious, roger. This is winter. It is meant to be wet. And considerably colder than it is. Last I checked, the dams that supply our (Melbourne & much of my state's ) water were at something like 27% capacity.... so given that it's hardly raining at all, this may well be the appropriate time to panic!

Rain here! some of it will flow into the Murray via the Golbourn I guess but most will be sucked up by parched forests.
The only thing thats gonna fix the murray system is a 1000 mm year, here in the mountains and in the headwaters of the Murray at the same time.
Both the upper murray and the golbourn need to be running at peak flood levels to flood the barmah forest and the Koondrook forest at the same time. It follows that the Koorong and the lower lakes will receive water in turn.

let me tell you it aint gonna happen. sorry

Eildon will absorb any excess without batting an eye
Current Volume 402874
% of Capacity 12.08
Capacity (ML) 3334158

We (finally) got swine flu if that makes you happy.

imported from Disneyland apparently.

I guess we just cross our fingers & hope for a HUGE freak flood, dadpad?

I'd settle for 3 inches ms Olga.

We're at 53% of reservoir capacity after a wet April...not sure how May is looking....though we got 26.2 mm in the last two days.

However, our normal Murray allocation will not be available.

We've been looking at the feasibilityof using artesian water....and, apparently, hurrying along our desalination plant plans.

Blimey, Msolga...I hope you guys get a real soaking!!!

I know you don't care - but it's bucketing down in Cairns today. The damns (intentional) were already over 100%.

On the plus side the flood/storm/mess in SE Qld has some damns (still intentional) are at 75%, but Toowoomba got bugger all - wonder if they'll readdress the drinking treated water issue.

I saw happy cattle farmers at Coopers Creek the other night - and green fields out there too. What a strange land we live in.

I care.

I just wish, if it has to be floods and all, that some of the goddam water made it south.

At this stage, dadpad, I'd be ecstatic with half an inch!

Can't find it right now, Deb, but I read a fairly worrying article about the variety & amounts of chemicals necessary for the desalination process.
(Our government is pushing the desalination option, too ...& facing a lot of opposition by the folk in the vicinity of the planned plant.)