Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Increasing weather extremes...I don't think so...

Global warming, climate change...call it what you will, but I'm not seeing it...

With the end of another year I now have 19 years worth of rainfall data for the farm.

The trend is upwards...that's probably a good thing...although the R'squared is quite low.

 The month to month variation hasn't moved much...the highest and lowest rainfall months are scattered throughout the 19 years. The driest ever month was July in 1993 and the wettest Dec 2003.



However I'm betting the "diggers" over the ditch will beg to differ. I've tried to log-on to the Darling Downs website to see if they are affected...it's certainly green and very wet but the webcam quality is crap so it's hard to tell...however the video coverage of Toowoonba didn't look very flash...

It's been a bad couple of months for the West Island...lost the Ashes, fires in Perth, floods in Queensland, the coming humiliation in the Rugby World Cup...

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