@Ceili,
Quote:All that dust in the atmosphere... Maybe the rain will wash it away or make things really mucky. Either way, you guys need the rain.
Yes, we certainly do need the rain. That dust over Sydney was
soil (a helluva lot of it!) , lifted from dryer, central parts of Oz & blown to the east coast by the crazy winds.
Quote:It's been really dry here too. The hill in front of my place is brown. This is Vancouver. I've seen it rain here 4 months straight, which is perfectly normal.
I can relate to what you're saying, Ceili. Our weather has been decidedly "odd" for at least 10 years now. Will things ever become "normal" again (ie
as they used to be, most of the time)? I don't know. But I do know that here both summer & winter temperatures have been considerably warmer than in the past. It's a big worry, isn't it?
Quote:In Alberta, the next province over, farmers tilled their fields under this year because after the last thin snow fall, they didn't get a drop of rain for two months. This is very odd.
My sympathy to the farmers of Alberta. Farming here, in my state of Victoria (which is supposed to be (mostly) a temperate zone, with ample rains for farming) has certainly been affected by the ongoing drought. A lot of farmers wondering about their future "on the land".
Oh, it's a rainy spring here in Victoria. Rather like spring weather we used to have years & years ago. This is taking a bit of getting used to! A week of rain this week, the weather bureau tells us. 
