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It's raining! It's raining!

 
 
msolga
 
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Reply Tue 26 May, 2009 05:22 am
@dlowan,
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Blimey, Msolga...I hope you guys get a real soaking!!!


Thanks, Deb. It's looking kinda scary at this stage, isn't it?
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 26 May, 2009 05:29 am
@hingehead,
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I know you don't care - but it's bucketing down in Cairns today. The damns (intentional) were already over 100%.


Do so care! How could you think we don't?

A dam over 100% full. What happens to the "surplus"?

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


Half their luck! Yeah, it's a pretty weird place alright! Confused

hingehead
 
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Reply Tue 26 May, 2009 04:18 pm
@msolga,
Quote:
A dam over 100% full. What happens to the "surplus"?


It works it way back to the reef, giving the tourons a nice waterfall display and leaching some cane farm chemicals on the way.
msolga
 
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Reply Tue 26 May, 2009 08:07 pm
@hingehead,
Jeez, ya can't win, can you? <sigh>
msolga
 
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Reply Mon 29 Jun, 2009 09:59 pm
@msolga,
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. (Sighing deeply)

But we sort of knew it, already. Sad

... On top of that, check out what's happening here today:



Gale-force winds expected in CBD

June 30, 2009 - 11:08AM

Gale-force winds of up to 100 km/h are set to hit Melbourne's CBD at lunchtime today.

Quote:
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. ....


and ...

Quote:
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.


http://www.theage.com.au/national/galeforce-winds-expected-in-cbd-20090630-d33j.html

Well, those winds are here & it's bloody scary out there! Shocked
I expect a power outage any minute.
Anyone whose still denying that there's something weird going on with our weather patterns is crazy! What other little weather surprises could possibly happen in the second half of this year? Nothing would surprise me!
Rockhead
 
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Reply Mon 29 Jun, 2009 10:18 pm
@msolga,
a little taste of Kansas in Oz...

be careful.


toto
msolga
 
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Reply Mon 29 Jun, 2009 10:26 pm
@Rockhead,
Yeah?

Kansas is like this, too, Rockhead? You lucky devils!

Bet it rains there every now & then, but! Evil or Very Mad

A feeble attempt to rain here, a short while ago, but it came to pretty much nought .... sigh
Rockhead
 
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Reply Mon 29 Jun, 2009 10:29 pm
@msolga,
we got a spot water out of a squall today, but the last three have been dry. (gonna be humid tomorrow)

it is much like one would imagine hell to be here in the summertime.
msolga
 
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Reply Mon 29 Jun, 2009 10:42 pm
@Rockhead,
Ah sorry about that, Rockhead.

I've (honestly) lost track of when we last had "normal" annual rainfall ... 8 - 10 years?

It's supposed to be WET here now! It is winter, after-all! Confused How low can our water storages go, I wonder? (down to around 27% capacity, last time I looked.)

I think it'd fair to say that the Powers That Be have got it in for us Victorians. What a year. First the horrendous bushfires, then we discover that we're the Swine Flu capital of Oz & now this pathetic, pretend winter!
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 30 Jun, 2009 01:15 am
IT'S RAINING!



Very Happy
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 30 Jun, 2009 01:22 am
@msolga,
Quote:
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.


Correction (just heard this on the radio): 2009 is actually the second driest start to a year on record ....


The record is actually held by ....

2008!

Neutral
msolga
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 01:22 am
@msolga,
Not nearly enough rain this winter & the likelihood of even worse bushfires in country Victoria this summer ....

Well what can one do but fret? Sad

Victoria used to be called "the garden state", for very good reason. But things have changed. Drastically.:


Melbourne the nation's driest capital
Peter Ker and Sarah-Jane Collins
July 30, 2009/the AGE


MELBOURNE is carving a new reputation as Australia’s driest capital city, giving further credence to dire bushfire warnings for the coming summer.

As a leaked report warned that fire risk this season could exceed the catastrophic summer of 2009, Premier John Brumby called the state’s top fire officials to a private meeting late on Tuesday.

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....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’’....


http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-the-nations-driest-capital-20090729-e1kr.html
dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 04:00 am
@msolga,
Good grief.

I think WE'RE wetter than you this year.

msolga
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 04:07 am
@dlowan,
Oh you were, Deb!

Though that doesn't exactly put SA in a great position either, does it? Sad





Perhaps it's time to move to Tassie?

... or invade NZ! Twisted Evil
msolga
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 04:20 am
@msolga,
Quote:
... or invade NZ! Twisted Evil


Just kidding! Just kidding!
I may be parched this summer, but I'm a true blue pacifist!

(Thought I'd jump in quickly before KiwiChic, or some other NZlander reads this! Wink )
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msolga
 
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Reply Sat 15 Aug, 2009 09:48 pm
It's raining
It's pouring
The old man is snoring.
Went to bed
And bumped his head
And couldn't get in the morning.


Very Happy Very Happy

Wet, wet, wet!
And I think the mad winds might have stopped, too! (fingers crossed!)
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 15 Aug, 2009 10:15 pm
@msolga,
Halleluljah!!

Ditto here......but it was 27 C yesterday!!!! Ridiculous.

I so hope the rain keeps coming here and there.
msolga
 
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Reply Sat 15 Aug, 2009 10:19 pm
@dlowan,
Goodness!!!!!! Surprised Surprised Surprised

27 C degrees in August!

Did you get the insane wind we experienced, too, Deb? Horrible.

Quote:
I so hope the rain keeps coming here and there.


Yes, yes! I'll drink to that! Very Happy

dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 16 Aug, 2009 01:02 am
@msolga,
The wind may be coming....Coober Pedy had 90 ks yesterday.
msolga
 
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Reply Sun 16 Aug, 2009 01:07 am
@dlowan,
God knows what we had here overnight, Deb. It was rather frightening, waking up in the wee small hours & hearing the loudness of it!
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