jad n rich

Brisbane has only recieved 69 ml of rain since April, even this being the dry season we should have got around 300 ml in that same period. Driest winter since 1950.

Sounds great to new arrivals, but the tinder dry brown grass is going to be a real worry once the weather warms up. Time to start trimming trees and cleaning gutters I think :scared:

HUP

69ml it sounded like that fell in Melb last night. Plenty of rain here and everywhere is really green.

Neil S

Makes you wonder if the water companies could build a 1700km pipe between the two cities, I'm sure Melb wouldn't mind sharing their plentiful water supply.

Megalania

Melbourne’s water storages up 10% on last year = 51.2%

HiddenPaw

Melbourne's reservoirs are still only about 50% full. A Vic state govt report reckons that Melbourne's water supplies will run out by 2012....how worrying is that?

jad n rich

Melb might have less water supply than up here, they only recently came out of a very dry spell, months of it I think.

Bris usually ends up ok its subtropical and annual rainfall is just under 2000 mm a year but it mainly falls in summer, worring bit is if its this dry now its not long till we heat up and boom one stray ciggie butt and there will be bushfires for sure.

Raindance now.


Edit, now seen Megalanias reply thought he would be up on this type of stuff boy from the bush maybe?

Megalania

The Perfect Bushfire - good winter / spring rains and hot dry summer.

"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan

tiredwithtwins

hehe...and us in the uk must be having one of the wettest summers.......it seems to have been drizzling nonstop here in sheffield for about 2 days now.....and its rained every day for the last couple of weeks (except sunday)!!!!!!

sue

walla

same as Gateshead

Don

Nice over here - 30 C and just off to the pool

Hels

We had flooding in North West London yesterday.....It bought the roads to a standstill.....alot of the tube was shut down......

There were reports on the radio of someone taking 4 1/2 hours to go about 5 miles.....

jad n rich

Sorry it was a bit of an experiment, just thought Aus forum, hey lets see if we can discuss important aspects of OUR climate, without it turning into a ours is worse than yours debate. Its so weird reading posts from the UK on our weather, like storms, floods, droughts, bushfires, heatwaves never get mentioned. All a big part of our country.

Bookmark thread for December

cresta57

Gibraltar has no reservoirs for storing vast quantities of drinking water and has built a huge de-salination plant. The plant runs on household waste and is very efficient [designed by the Danes] The toilets there all use sea water to flush. When so many people live reasonably close to the coast in Australia why don't they just build some plants of their own and keep the greenies happy by recycling the waste instead of dumping into landfill.

tiredwithtwins

erm....we werent turning it into a ours is worse than yours debate.....just observing the differences.
if you dont want anyone from outside the uk inputting anything on your threads in future put something like 'oz residents only to reply please'

ssinnige

In the brisbane area, some water supply dams are down to about 8% of their full capacity and still falling! The boat ramp that was in use a couple of years ago is now often mistaken for a cricket pitch as the water receded a couple of hundred metres.