Australian fires?

[Keith Antoine]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
>>
>> The flooding of north queensland was the first of the major 
>> disasters, but this is fairly normal on a yearly basis but this time 
>> it was huge some places
>> had up to 1000mm in 24hrs
>
> A meter a day??  Are you sure you don't have an extra decimal point in 
> that?
>
In this particular case and this year the monsoon has dumped more rain 
than in "living memory", it covers ahuge area and to do that some places
have had monsterous quantities. Further south around Tully and Babinda 
they usually have 400mm in 16hrs, this year between 600 and 800mm.
Like the fires the floods have been massive. Australia is the place for 
over the top weather changes, but then you too have had massive snow
dumps and in places that do not usually get it.

It is beeing bandied around here that this is what we have to expect in 
future, although in the SE we had more rain in Nov/Dec and now its 
drought again.

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
Practising Geriatric retired, Brain in mimi storage.
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and nothing else. They learn after leaving school in the big wide world.