It’s raining in Brisbane

Yes, that makes sense.
An interesting graph of Aus rainfall since 1900;

Australian rainfall deciles since 1900
What are your thoughts on this?

 

No solar just was too lazy to go down and test the board when it cut-out early this morning as it was blowing like a pre lead up too cyclone season.

 

Every drought ends in a flood

 

Where are you?
I havent noticed any reduction in thunderstorms both here and my former place of residence at all. Bit of a drought this year but thats normal in Australia to have droughts every so often. We used to work on about 7 years or so of extreme drought then swings over to extreme wet.
Australia, love it!

 

beat me to it !
Watch out Brizzy.

 

Yes, that too.
If you look at that list of Maps, there isnt really much of a pattern, other than possibly since approx 1955 the frequency of years of above average rains - across most of the Country - increased. Lots more years of mostly blue than in the half century before 1955.
Conversely; note the years 1900, 1901, 1902 - worse than what we are currently experiencing over the last 3 years.

 

I like the blue ones best ...

 

I'm not a climate change skeptic (or expert) but just putting it out there....there were possibly more dry patches during the 1st half of the 20th century than the latter half?

 

Apparently one of the "benefits" of climate change. Wetter.
Bring it on!

 

Yes, it has rained on fires here on the mid north coast NSW and most are either under control or being controlled.
There is still a lot of bushland needs burning though and it would be good to get it done and out of the way, thus reducing further fire risk for many many more years to come until the understory of leaf litter builds again. It would be better if litter reduction burning could be carried out more extensively moving forward from this though, helps to manage the rish, especially around housing areas.
But yes, in answer to the question, the recent rain in Brisbane has also occurred elsewhere on the east coast and has put fires out or reduced them to manageable levels.

 

Strange you say it like that,i just finished the repairs new front gates reset the posts in one i rebuilt after the last big flood ..I had to re--set one post to allow for the new gate's and the flood smell is still in the ground..

 

Man , I must be right inside your head . You can’t even make it through a weather thread without referencing me .

 

Nah mate...this song is on my head though......

 

More commonly called living “rent free” in ones head.

 

It’s raining here again now, nice little cell moving down the nambucca valley.

 

Do you know what an "average" is? Do you understand that in about 1900 the amount of data available since White settlement would have pretty small. So a "20 year" average (probably about the time they even started measuring these things) a lot less accurate than a 140 year one. Never mind the technology or sampling point would have been wasn't too advanced back then. The more sample points you have, being significantly higher than the "average" is a much more abnormal thing.

Have you read what the BOM has said on this matter? The very ones who provided this data you are quoting from.

 

Yes.
You can look at averages, and you can also look at raw data.
I simply presented raw data from a source that most as a rule won't question.
It's up to you how you want to interpret it.
What is your interpretation?

 

Just starting to rain again..

 

What does everyone think of the idea of Australia getting deadly serious about capturing water from wet season in the far north of QLD, the NT and WA, and diverting it/piping it to keep our major river systems fully charged ?

I get that it would be expensive, but does the water security it would provide make the business case for the economic cost?