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Originally Posted by stuckinblighty (Post 8402356)

As i've said before i've never seen a country in a drought have so much frickin rain.

Wrong type of rain maybe ?

Nope, just the wrong places. Remember, we're talking about a country three times the size of Western Europe. It'll take more than a few showers in suburban QLD and VIC to break the drought.

Qld outback is having biggest flood in 120 years. Drought broke in suburban Brisbane a few years ago.

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Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede (Post 8402490)

Nope, just the wrong places. Remember, we're talking about a country three times the size of Western Europe. It'll take more than a few showers in suburban QLD and VIC to break the drought.

+1 :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 8402599)

Qld outback is having biggest flood in 120 years. Drought broke in suburban Brisbane a few years ago.

Not much of this water will impact the major dams

http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/index...e-weekly.shtml

Drought not really broken till substantial rain in the Murray catchment

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Originally Posted by mulben (Post 8402641)

+1 :thumbup:

Not much of this water will impact the major dams

http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/index...e-weekly.shtml

Drought not really broken till substantial rain in the Murray catchment

Eh, that's NSW. Talking about drought in Qld?

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Originally Posted by MartinLuther (Post 8402422)

There has been talk that the drought may be breaking. If you compare this year to 2006 then it's been very raining indeed.

The other thing is that it's a big place. I know last winter the Mornington Peninsula got normal levels of rainfall whereas other parts of Vic didn't. As you live not that far north of the MP (in Toorak :D) I suspect that you've had something like normal rainfall as well over the last year.

I did think summer was dryer than normal but at the same time we had one of the coldest summer days I've experienced since being here.

This summer has been interesting. It's has not been hot at all, infact, just warm. (Hot by UK standards in other words). It's even been quite balmy in February, occasioning people to make comparisons with SE QLD.

We are in drought and have been getting 10-20pc less than the 30 or 40 year average but much of that has come in downpours which is great for large tanks and redistribution...

Just based on the greeness of the backyard , the worst year we had was 2007/8.

This year and last year have been far better.

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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 8402415)

Your correct.... dont get me going on this subject.

Most people haven't seen how beautiful Melbournes gardens and parks used to be back in the 70's and early 80's.... when the sprinklers where left on most of the summer.

People forget that Melbourne is supposed to be dry and dusty in February and the grass otherwise browning off. I couldn't believe how green Californian gardens were in March, and our yard had finally gone brown in a mid-March heatwave.

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Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 8402805)

Eh, that's NSW. Talking about drought in Qld?

Just pointing out that rain in Qld impacts on the Darling River -which flows through NSW to SA
http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/menindee.shtml

Its all inter related QLD /NSW/Vic /SA

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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 8402415)

Most people haven't seen how beautiful Melbournes gardens and parks used to be back in the 70's and early 80's.... when the sprinklers where left on most of the summer.
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Remember it well :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 8402838)

Strange isn't it that you accept the lack of greenery as normal when it is all down (well some anyway ) to political factors .

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Originally Posted by mulben (Post 8402938)

Remember it well :thumbup:

Strange isn't it that you accept the lack of greenery as normal when it is all down (well some anyway ) to political factors .

Maybe - the fact we can't use sprinkler systems for our personal enjoyment is political but watering gardens and maintaining gardens is not the natural order.

Look at the flora and fauna not on sprinkle systems.

We saw a movie made in the 70s and it showed a family down the Mornington Peninsula back then. It looked like Cyprus and hot as hell.

We saw it in a wet Melbourne winter and my wife who had never seen Melbourne in the summer could not believe it could get that hot.

We could do with some of that rain in regional WA, the last time it rained here was 19th December - 0.4mm and before that 6mm on 20th November - it is so dry :(

Drought is alive and kicking in Pilbara region.

People who havn't lived here for long think short term water supply means no drought. When you have been here for a while you know better, much better.

Qld situation

Flood: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225838836588

Formal decision in April whether the current falls will break most of the remaining drought in Qld but most predicting it will as highest flood levels in 100/120 years.

Some area's where drought has already been revoked: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/4789_13811.htm

Brisbane was declared drought free on 1 March 2008: http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/Qu...Mar/index.html

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Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede (Post 8402490)

Nope, just the wrong places. Remember, we're talking about a country three times the size of Western Europe. It'll take more than a few showers in suburban QLD and VIC to break the drought.

A bit blasÃ© Vash, to put it in perspective, from an Australian point of view, in Queensland an area larger than the whole of Victoria is currently underwater.
The worst floods for over 120 years is hardly "a few showers"

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Originally Posted by cresta57 (Post 8406439)

What's that area measured in Belgiums?