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From: ciaran@ciaran.com
Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:
> "Ciaran" wrote in message
> news:45C18B5A.7040803@ciaran.com...
>> Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:
>>> "Ciaran" wrote in message
>>> news:45BEDCD3.6070203@ciaran.com...
>>>
>>>> Drought-breaking rains in Ozzie !!! You beauty mate !!!
>>> Looking better in places but it's hardly 'drought-breaking' news for most
>>> of South QLD and the south east.
>>> Brizzie's dams still at about 20% full last I checked.
>>>
>>> We haven't had much up here (Cairns) yet either.
>>> Here's hoping though, looks like a cyclone forming.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> First a cyclone soaks WA from north to south, then the monsoon comes down
>> and soaks the whole NT and the Kimberleys, then links up with a southern
>> ocean low and moves to western Queensland, SA and western Victoria and
>> soaks it so the Diamantina is flooding now to fill Lake Eyre. We've even
>> starting to get some rain in parts of NSW and coastal Queensland now. I
>> think this is the start of a La Nina drought breaker !!!
>
> Hope you're right - nae kidding.
>
> I know the Diamantina is flooding and filling lake Eyre but it's a big
> country and the Diamantina flooding doesn't affect the Murray-Darling
> catchement in the slightest. And the Murray - Darling is the one that feeds
> the truly economicaly significant areas after all.
> And it's still a fact that Brizzy and Sydney are still dying of thirst at
> the moment.
> For all your touching 'she'll be sweet' attitude there is still a ****ing
> long way to go yet.
>
>
Better now ?
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/rainmaps.cgi?page=map&vari
ble=totals&period=month&area=aus
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