Posted by sigismund on January 25, 2013, at 16:37:20
In reply to S'up peeps??, posted by sleepygirl2 on January 24, 2013, at 22:40:42
What's the weather like where you are?
My doctor here spoke about walking around a lake in Connecticut where it was so cold the tears froze in his eyes.
It was 46C in Sydney the other day...the highest temperature there since records started to be taken.
So we have had
The most intense drought for 100 years from 1996 to 2006, more or less.
Then the 3 wettest years on record where there was continuous rain, and floods in many places, even in what are usually the dry months of spring.
(Then that suddenly stopped last July and it was continuously dry until now. There is a a cyclone from the north now.)Then the hottest years ever where the temperature in Oodnatta actually broke the 50C mark.
It is one of the things about being here...the weather impresses by its unevenness. It has always been like that which is why Aboriginal land management practices fostered balance and abundance via careful burning, and population control. I have been reading this.....
the implications of which are very sad when I reflect on life in the country and how we saw things 50 years ago. Not that it is getting better, just different. If anything we understood the country a little better then.The book mentions places where the vegetation cover is somewhat arranged, so to speak, places I know.
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