Perth has its highest June rain for 14 years(since 251mm in 2005) – 177.2mm so far with a week to go. Enjoy all the anti-rain interests, desalination pushers, anti-damists, many politicians and assorted rain doomsayers.
Thanks to Lance for pointing out this involuntary 1896 cloud seeding experiment at Bourke when a dynamite magazine exploded and it immediately rained.
Pauline Hanson raises the Bradfield Scheme and the green/left meedja pooh poohs and ignores.
I think we have to look wider than Bradfield for solutions so using Google I hunted for river flow data to try and figure how much water PA on average flows to the sea around Vic, NSW & Qld. No luck so far.
Blackall’s Barcoo Hotel reduces power bill with diesel generator – useful article – sign of the times.
NSW quietly cancels 200MW virtual power plant, redirects funds to solar loans – sneaky backdown on a green anti-grid fail.
Category Archives: Water
178 years Sydney Melbourne Adelaide rainfall
Any new long term rainfall time series get my attention and the May 2019 paper “Historical extreme rainfall events in southeastern Australia” by Ashcroft, Karoly and Dowdy is online.
I found it interesting that the Sydney and Melbourne charts of annual rainfall both have their wettest 10 year average periods just after WWII as cloud seeding experiments were commencing over SE Australia.
I last blogged re cloud seeding in early 2018 and there are some links there.
Perth dams rain 2018 update
I missed posting my updated chart this year so better late than never. Large version.
Good Friday cold blast in Albany brings April snow to WA for first time in 49 years 20Apr19
BoM rain map massive errors
Watching the meanderings inland of the weakening cyclone Trevor I see this BoM contoured rain map omits the massive 85.8mm of rain at Jervois – a lone weather station east of Alice Springs. This map shows negligible rain at Jervois for 1st to 25th March yet Jervois had 85.8mm on the 25th. Large map. 
Statistics for Jervois show mean rain for March is 32.9mm so 85.8 is 2.6 times the mean.
Area without rain gauges in SE NT and SA four times the size of Belgium.
MDB was way drier pre 1950
How the Nation is badly served by the GreenLeft media, Green biased water bureaucrats and useless knee-jerk green politicians. Bleating on about rainfall in normally dry summer months – beating up normal events like fish kills – failing to drive home that major problems are the mad environmental flows politicians have agreed to – invoking Flannery by using language like “unless it rains” which to the ignorant implies it might not rain again. Seemingly failing to realize that news beating up MDB heat is quoting the BoM adjusted warmer ACORN temperature data where the past is cooled.
Examples from last 3 months – “rainfall continues to contract” – “Hot, dry year” – “outlook is grim unless it rains”. Trend for southern wet season is similar. Black line is 5 yr av.
Queensland Premier claims 7 or 8 years of drought
I heard Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on ABC TV news 7th or 8th Feb claiming “after 7 or 8 years of drought” in the context of talking about cattle deaths in floods around the Mt Isa – Hughenden region. This got me to looking at BoM drought maps and maps of recent rain to see exactly where Qld drought has been from 2011 to 2018. Here are two 4 year Qld drought maps showing the Premiers entire 8 year period. 
How does the Premier get to be so detached from the facts of BoM maps?
I have a separate www page with relevant BoM maps of Australia for easy comparison of drought areas for each of those those 8 years. It was a bit of a shock to find that for year 1 – 2011 there was no drought anywhere in Australia. Then for year 2 – 2012 there was almost no drought in Qld. Then in 2013 there were sizeable drought areas in our subject area affected by recent floods. In no subsequent year were there any significant drought areas in our subject area. Let me know what you think of the Premier’s statement. I know the Townsville floods and cattle death floods to the west have stressed all involved. However we surely can not lose our grip on measurable factual data to this extent.
BoM genius never saw Townsville floods coming
Hat-tip David Brewer – thanks Dave. Checkout the BoM rain Outlook for Jan issued 20th Dec. – Townsville region EXACTLY defined as v dry and Mt Isa-Winton region also dryer than average. He can’t tadalafil online order www.cerritosmedicalcenter.com/pid-6085 have an orgasm, and he may need to see a doctor after the medicine starts working. A physical therapy is meant as a dynamic profession which has been as established by the theoretical and scientific base clinical applications to restore, maintain and promote general fitness and health. generic viagra in stores www.cerritosmedicalcenter.com/pid-8534 cheapest viagra tablets When you should ellude it? You should stay away from faintness. This is because many separate viagra fast shipping conditions can affect the intricate structure of the ear. The tropics too, predicted dryer than average – marvel at BoM incompetence. Jan actual rain Percentages – Larger Jan Outlook map
Rain Outlook for Feb issued 17 Jan – Townsville region still defined as way dryer than average – ditto Mt Isa region. Feb month to date actual rain Percentages
Townsville floods & rainfall history
I see this morning that Ross River dam levels @ the spillway have reduced 0.25m overnight.
The ABC had this map of flood levels tweeted from Townsville local govt.- first useful map I had seen in a week but I can not find the source. Tables rain history – Townsville Aero monthly rain from 1941 – and Townsville Pilot Station monthly rain from 1871 1951
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The Weatherill Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission and Eddie Obeid
ABC reports today The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission is about to hand down its findings. Here’s how we got here. I am waiting to hear what content might emerge from this R.C. Fascinating too the connection to Eddie Obeid back in 2008 mentioned here on page 367 of the marvellous book “He Who Must be Obeid” by Kate McClymont and Lynton Besser. Note too that Arthur Sinodonis (now a NSW Senator) was once Chairman of the Obeid family vehicle Australian Water Holdings Ltd.
Royal Commission report 700 odd pages of pdf IMHO very legalistic and a festival for the Wentworth Group and the IPCC. Whole aim seems to be to boost environmental flows using any argument available.
ScoMo about to throw $Bns @ Adelaide desalination so more fresh water can waste to sea
Is there no limit to Commonwealth $Bn’s that get thrown into South Australia? Water ministers on cusp of ‘momentous’ Murray-Darling Basin Plan decision