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182mm? That's FA. We have had 800mm in 24 hours. 200mm or more in 12 hours is not uncommon during the wet season.
Queensland. Weather is great one day, perfect the next. Of course you should live in Canberra where the weather is currently sunny, with blue skies. No chance of flooding.
It seems that's when BOM stopped reporting it. Apparently it was many hundreds of mm more than that. It also depends where it falls and a number of other factors as to if you'll get flooding or not. Plus why do morons (ok, they're morons) always try to drive through the flood waters in their (*)(*)(*)(*)ty little cars?
No wet season for us this year. We have had less than half our usaul rainfall. We are having what is known has a green draught. Just enough rain to keep the grass green but not enough to penetrate the ground.
Yep, know what it is like. We have had it like that before too. Back in 2005 I think it was we got nothing from May through to the following January. The place was just bare dirt.
Trees are whistling dogs here And I know you do not believe in climate change but this is the change that is predicted - more severe droughts with flooding rains, You do not have to tell me either that Australia IS the "land of droughts and flooding rains" but an increased temperature globally will lead to increased evaporation and that means dams will dry faster and so will soil meanwhile the increased evaporation puts more moisture in the air - but the precipitation apparently will not be gentle rain but cloud dumps - and my knowledge of the theory gets a little shaky around why that is so but apparently it is so get used to rain that dumps and dries out to drought
Sounds like normal Australian climate to me. Anyway, the atmosphere hasn't warmed for over 16 years. And I do believe in climate change, I said so numerous times, the climate has always changed.
The atmosphere has not warmed but the globe has continued to warm - the oceans are heating up http://theconversation.com/ocean-depths-heating-steadily-despite-global-warming-pause-37047
Yep they're HEATING UP alright, 0.005 of a degree a year. That means down at the beach in the summer of 2215, two hundred years from now, the water temperature will be 33 degrees instead of 32 degrees. That is if we can believe such a tiny figure can be measured out of the huge natural fluxuations in temperature and if measurements over such a short time span mean anything.
There is a lot of ocean to heat - and it is not the same all over the globe so some parts like the tropics will warm faster - meanwhile this warming of the oceans is changing the trade winds
How did they manage to measure a difference of as little as two ten thousants of a degree 2,000 metres under the sea? How many measurements did they take? Over what time period? Did they actually physicaly measure the temperature, or is it just the result of some 'modeling'?
ARGO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography) Satellite mapping Integrated Ocean Observing System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Ocean_Observing_System To name but a few - lot of data out there and although some of it has only a short time frame - what it is showing is that the trending is consistent. And we do not have time to wait until the absolute last figures are in You know there are thousands of scientists world wide working on global warming and it just simply depresses me when I get responses implying there is no research
That graph didn't come from the ARGO project. It is an 'estimate' taken from what? What is the 'Heat Constant'? Don't you love the way the data ranges are mantipulated to give a dramatic effect. I would still maintain that a temperaqture rise of two ten thousants of a degree in the worlds oceans is not measurable and would be meaningless anyway. The temperature of the worlds oceans fluxuate far more than that through natural cycles. Look at the Arctic, ice is steadily returning after the 2012 anomaly.
Deep oceans are cooling. http://judithcurry.com/2014/10/05/evidence-of-deep-ocean-cooling/ Love the way Paul Durack altered the observed data so that it agrees with his 'model'. Har har har
Graph came from here http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/global_change_analysis.html Too sick to continue right now
