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Title: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: baldheadedgit on March 08, 2012, 07:39:06 AM
What a joke,,,,,,someone please explain.!!!!!!


BHG
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Kirky on March 08, 2012, 07:40:12 AM
Tim Flannery can explain that for you.
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Manjimike on March 08, 2012, 08:16:01 AM
Nope. Antarctica holds that fame, although Australia is supposed to be the driest inhabited continent  ;D
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: dazzler on March 08, 2012, 08:18:49 AM
You dont need tim

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/zones.htm (http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/zones.htm)

check out the graph near the bottom which talks about river flow.

You could completely cover then entire east coast from melb to cairns and out to the borders with NT and SA and you would still not even be 1/3 of the land mass.
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Fridge Magnet on March 08, 2012, 08:29:29 AM
....and Melbourne only gets half the mean annual rainfall of Sydney but who'd believe you if you told them  ???

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/zones.htm#two (http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/zones.htm#two)
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Blue Bravo on March 08, 2012, 09:02:29 AM
Drive from Adelaide to Perth and count the fast flowing rivers -  ???
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: rotare on March 08, 2012, 09:17:49 AM
We have a couple of years of exceptional rain fall in some parts of this country and it's easy to forget the years and years of extremely low rainfall and drought that most have endured. When you take the long term average across Australia over a multitude of years,even when factoring in the excessive rainfall on the east coast , the outlook generally is still that Oz is getting hotter and drier.... 
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Fun Police on March 08, 2012, 09:53:02 AM
Tim Flannery can explain that for you.

He's in hiding, the rotten scum....
Title: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: dazzler on March 08, 2012, 12:09:58 PM
He's in hiding, the rotten scum....
Pls xplain
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Bird on March 08, 2012, 12:17:03 PM
What a joke,,,,,,someone please explain.!!!!!!


BHG
Global warming.
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Fun Police on March 08, 2012, 12:48:03 PM
Pls xplain

Because he's whipped up all this fury about climate change and predicted the dams would be all empty in a couple of years, etc, etc.

All a crock IMO
Title: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: dazzler on March 08, 2012, 01:00:43 PM
What's happening is what the scientists have predicted. Wilder and more fluctuations in weather patterns.

As a scientist he looks at the science, reviews it and forms an opinion. Just like I imagine you have.   Yeah scumbag hey.
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Fun Police on March 08, 2012, 01:22:21 PM
Yeah scumbag hey.

I'm glad you agree.  He's one of the dangerous ones.
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: baldheadedgit on March 08, 2012, 01:26:16 PM
What's happening is what the scientists have predicted. Wilder and more fluctuations in weather patterns.

As a scientist he looks at the science, reviews it and forms an opinion. Just like I imagine you have.   Yeah scumbag hey.
As a concreter i open the door and say, "**** not again"  ;D
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Hairs on March 08, 2012, 02:51:31 PM
I remember reading a report( Sorry no link) on core sampling of the Brain Coral(They collect sediment from the river run offs) on the Great Barrier Reef a couple of years ago that went along the lines, it is a dry period that the east coast of Australia is going through atm.
Records from these samples show a lot wetter periods have happened in cycles and we haven't seen nuthin yet.
My trade as a Carpenter may come in handy building ark. ;D

As a concreter i open the door and say, "**** not again"  ;D
I remember a long time ago( I'm talking 30 odd years ago or more), a bloke around Wardell, Broadwater, Woodburn somewhere, built a Concrete Boat.
So there, you still might have a trade yet  ;D
My father was amazed at it and use to take us for a drive past it.
 :cheers:

Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Manjimike on March 08, 2012, 02:54:59 PM
Most of the dams in WA are less than 50% capacity

Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: theflyingbadger on March 08, 2012, 03:44:49 PM
Most of the dams in WA are less than 50% capacity




indeedy (http://www.watercorporation.com.au/D/dams_storage.cfm)
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Muso on March 08, 2012, 03:51:06 PM
Hairs....

If God wanted us to build concrete boats, he would have planted concrete trees  ;D
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: Hairs on March 08, 2012, 04:06:47 PM
Hairs....
If God wanted us to build concrete boats, he would have planted concrete trees  ;D


yeah, I know.
But they are out there.
Concrete ship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship)
 :cheers:
Title: Re: Australia.. the driest continent on earth.................??
Post by: WaituiRob on March 08, 2012, 06:02:46 PM
A bit off topic, but when I lived at Fingal Bay, Port Stephens a few years ago, a concrete hulled yacht was grounded after the owner thought he was entering the harbour and ended up on the Fingal Spit.
Two Coastal Patrol boats couldn`t pull it off, neither could a crane as it kept sinking in the sand and as the owner couldn`t afford a tug it was eventually broken into pieces and carted away.

It was the yacht`s maiden voyage and I think it had only sailed from Newcastle.

Robyn