OT weather

[Keith Antoine]

Well I am backup online after one of our severe tropical storms, but we 
have been lucky really as others have
been far worse off then me. We lost power and phone after a storm hit about 
4pm last evening, the storm was
moving at 70kph with winds of 130kph. We have had a storm per night for the 
last 5 days some which missed this suburb
but others have been out twice in 2 days. One I know of lost power for 17 
hrs only to lose it again 12 hrs later.
Yes there has been loss of life, only 3, but lots of property damage. 
Brisbane CBD has suffered damage for the
first time since 74, we lost train services bus services etc, apart from 
blocked roads. Luckily, again, we might not
have a storm till Monday; fingers crossed, but the forecast is we will get 
them all next week.

BTW I am not talking the whole of Oz just Queensland and the SE corner in 
particular.

This is the first time in 15-20 years we have had a monsoon season like we 
were used to back in the 60's. There was a scientist
from the CSIRO on tv last week, with some far distant forecasting. That we 
will be getting more and more hot days as the
years pass until 2040-50 when water will be so scarce here that it will be 
more expensive than oil. The El Nino effect will be
almost permenant. We have had more rain than we have had for many years 
this season, dams full etc plus flooding.
There was a reference to the moon moving away from earth an this will have 
a increasing effect on weather and tides due
to the fact that up till 30 years ago it was minimal but now its 
accelerating as the earths gravity field grows less. The days
are growing longer due to the earths spin slowing as the moon moves away 
(more than 24hrs). We have not had anything one
could call a winter, usually west winds and temps around the 2C at night to 
16C during the days. Mostly recent temps have
been 11C and 22C.

The effects are being felt in the SW Pacific region insofar as they are 
talking about giving land area in the Far north peninsular
to the Naruan's so as they can vacate Narua, before they suffer the same 
fate as Niewe and virtually get wiped out. The converse
would be that the Americas would get fairly hot summers and more severe 
winters: Ice ages again ?

There is some talk around that we are now at the limit of earths pertubance 
of 23.5 degrees will go a bit more but they are not
saying how much, we are currently at 23.45, I think.

Anyone else hear anything at all, but we are experiencing extremes of our 
type of weather patterns here. We are due for a day of
37-39C degrees today but as the high has gone no storms, or so they say. On 
thing we have not had a cyclone to speak of on the
east coast for yonks, when we do it'll be a doozy: Brisbane is totally 
unprepared for one as they have not had one come down so
low on the coast for 60 years.



Keith Antoine
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia
PH: 61733002161
Retired Electronics Engineer, Practising Geriatric, Brain in Storage