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.
I saw this on the ABC www pages quoting Perth BoM guy. Enjoy.
The wettest June in 14 years is not enough to overcome Perth’s dry start to 2019 Yesterday I think.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/the-wettest-june-in-14-years-but-2019-still-dry-for-perth/11258834
2003: Drought Vortex –
“Is a mysterious new weather system causing the drought in southern Australia?
Climatologists are desperately trying to explain the mystery of where southern Australia’s winter rainfall is going.
They’ve known the rain is being pulled south by an unexplained force.
Now they’ve devised a revolutionary new theory to explain why.”
www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s948858.htm
Drought Vortex – What a great subject for a question to the BoM at Senate estimates. Live in hope.
It seems these rain making experiments proceeded without funding.
1910
“EXPLOSION SCHEME DECLINED.
LONDON, Sunday Night.
Washington has declined the pro-posed gun-firing rain-making experiment.”
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225268437
Perhaps the conditions need to be right or ripe.
1916
“It had no effect on the weather, and it was
not followed by rain, although the concussion
from the explosion was felt a distance of about
a hundred miles in every direction”
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130583752
While on the subject of polar vortex, this 12 minute presentation could change your view of it forever.
“Dr. Donald Scott developed a mathematical model of the structure of a Birkeland current, which can be identified visually as counterrotating cylinders. We have suggested that the counterrotation clearly seen at the poles of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and in the earthly aurorae are the consistent indicators of the Birkeland current’s influences.”
I am sure Dr Donald Scott could generate some useful questions for our BoM at Senate estimates hearings.
I see your five Perth dams rainfall stations data is still in a mess after you have raised the issue over years. More questions for BoM at Estimates hearings.
BoM chooses not to explain Perth dams faulty rainfall data
I saw this article drawing attention to poor recent rains at Ravensthorpe – between Albany and Esperance in WA.
A tale of two neighbours: The mixed fortunes of WA’s driest farming communities 30Jun19
Classic ABC reporting that could be better balanced. Media seem to have an aversion to checking rain data yet it is so quick & easy to access at CDO.
ABC could have easily checked and found out that the five years 2013 to 2017 was the five year period of highest rain for Ravensthorpe in the 117 years of data. So farmers had all those good years to put resources aside. For larger chart.
There were 10 years drier than 2018 at Ravensthorpe
1940 234.1
1972 239.9
1994 245.8
1936 258.4
2002 274.8
1954 275.5
1957 278.6
1935 295.5
1928 296.1
1910 298.6
2018 299.7
One of the reasons the ABC and the BoM get away with these “narrative-driven” articles is that you cannot respond to any of their stories. They could easily have a comments function, why don’t they? Or, if that is too much for them, at least put a contact point for “corrections to this story”. Their journalists would learn something, and their stories would not always make us think, “OK, what have they stuffed up this time?”
Who knew the Arctic Fox could walk on water?
Arctic fox sets new record after walking from Norway to Canada in 76 days
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-02/arctic-fox-sets-record-travels-3500-kilometres-in-76-days/11270130
India has floods – Mumbai: Heaviest rain in decade triggers chaos
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48835828
a few days ago – India has just five years to solve its water crisis, experts fear. Otherwise hundreds of millions of lives will be in danger –
edition.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html
a year ago the meedja blab was – India facing the ‘worst water crisis in its history’
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44492994
Many BoM sites around Perth region heading for a healthy rain total for today.
www.bom.gov.au/wa/flood/swan_avon.shtml
And next to zero streamflow response I bet for the dams.
Seriously – Bickley with 300mm last month and no streamflow. I’d use rainfall figures at the dams but they can’t seem to provide those, so Bickley will have to do..
thewest.com.au/news/weather/perth-weather-third-wettest-june-makes-way-for-rainy-start-to-july-ng-b881246372z
And from water corp:
www.watercorporation.com.au/water-supply/rainfall-and-dams/streamflow
Really makes one wonder whether the measurements are wrong or that the response from the catchment is a whole lot different to how it has behaved historically.
I reckon a bit of Dynamite could possibly solve AGW if it was put in the right place!
Ted Bullpit was right!