Hi all, it isn’t soo much about the amount of rainfall in central Australia in 2010 but the regularity of rainfall and timimg that allowed for exceptional conditions in central Australia. I have only been in Alice for 12 years but I have spoken with ‘old-timers’ and they say they have never seen it like it is for such an extended period if time. It is January and landscape is usually brown and ‘harsh looking’ but it is green and the fauna and flora is still amazing in abundance and diversity.
All we need to do is enjoy it while we can.
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Bigger cyclones may result from the higher sea temperatures in the north. Denise
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The average land temperature was a bit cooler than recent years because the average sea surface temperature was the highest on record, contributing to the widespread cloud (and associated high rainfall levels) that kept the terrestrial temperatures down.
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Worth noting that despite the rain in Oz & the snow in North America, 2010 was still the hottest year on record…
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/