where’s our wet season?

11 Responses to where’s our wet season?

1. Robertvdl says:

   January 3, 2013 at 19:55

   “Back in March we were looking at a very dry situation and we were heading into one of the biggest droughts that the south east of England has ever experienced.

   So the wet year of 2012 – if it is the wettest – will be based really on nine very wet months rather than 12, so you can imagine that’s a lot of rain.”

   Professor Alan Jenkins

   http://news.sky.com/story/1032740/uk-weather-saw-dramatic-shift-in-2012

   Enjoy the warm and dry weather, you never know what the future may bring.
   • KG says:

     January 3, 2013 at 20:21

     We really need good wet seasons here, Robert. There are only the two seasons and without a good wet the grass is burned off and can’t regenerate in time for the next dry season.
     Some of the local cattlemen are predicting drought–and a drought here can easily last five years. It’s a completely different situation to a temperate zone climate.
   • Robertvdl says:

     January 3, 2013 at 22:44

     In that case it is better to invite Al Gore over. He is well know for the effect he has on the weather.

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Effect
     
     • KG says:

       January 3, 2013 at 22:50

       I’d like to invite him over and stake him out on an anthill.
       • Ronbo says:

         January 3, 2013 at 23:15

         Bush did it!

         Don’t ask me how.

         A bird fell dead from a tree at my feet this morning!

         Don’t ask me why…

         But former USA President George Bush killed that bird, I feel sure.

         Now I hear the wet season in Queensland, Australia is not so wet!

         Don’t ask me why…

         But I bet a dime to dollar Bush did it, somehow…
         • KG says:

           January 3, 2013 at 23:36

           That’s a pretty severe attack of BDS you have there, Ronbo!
         • The Gantt Guy says:

           January 4, 2013 at 04:09

           And don’t try to argue, or it will be proof you’re a raaaccccccciiiiiiissssssstttttt!!!!
2. Bill The Bunyip says:

   January 5, 2013 at 17:15

   We know how you feel Mr Wabbit.
   Here in the WEST we expect January to be hot and dry but this year has started off a tad warm. I drew the short straw and had to do the repairs on a dozer on Wednesday. 45 degrees and every tool that I picked up was hhhot. No matter how much fluid I poured in my body, I leaked it out just as fast.
   Reading the early explorers accounts of their travels in this great sunburnt land makes me shake my head in wonder at their stubborness and stupidity but they sure get my respect.
   A happy new year to you and Gecko and all your readers, although I think it is going to be a rough one.
   • KG says:

     January 5, 2013 at 17:26

     Good to see you, Bunyip! May you have a fine 2013.
     Me and Gecko often talk about the early explorers when we’re travelling. Thinking about what those guys went through gets it in perspective a little when we’re tempted to moan about driving a thousand km in air conditioned comfort. God only knows how they must have felt to crest a ridge after tramping for months in this heat, only to see an endless vista of more of the same stretching ahead of them–and not knowing if there was water ahead, or just more blackfellas waiting to spear them.
     They bred ’em tough in those days.
     Did you know that schoolkids aren’t taught about that any more?
     • Oswald Bastable says:

       January 5, 2013 at 18:10

       Adventure, exploration, risk-taking and self-reliance.

       Taboo in what passes for a school today!
       • KG says:

         January 5, 2013 at 18:14

         They sure as hell are! And future generations are going to suffer for it, Oswald.