Crikey it’s wet

[facthunter]

When I was Picking I used to  down a few.   Nev

[spacesailor]

We of old.

Ate so many " grapes " with too many pips .

Will not only give you the runs , but those pips will scratch your anus .

Like you never thought it could be so painful  .

spacesailor

 

 

[facthunter]

Having WORMS will make you want to do that. How big are the grapes you are eating? The seeds are bigger in Passionfruit, watermelons and  pumpkins, let alone Mangos  Nev

[Marty_d]

You may have problems if you managed to swallow an avocado pip.

[old man emu]

The largest seed in the world is the coco de mer, the seed of a palm tree. It can reach about 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, and weigh up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds).

 

[nomadpete]

11 minutes ago, old man emu said:

The largest seed in the world is the coco de mer, the seed of a palm tree. It can reach about 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, and weigh up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds).

 

I'm safe. I don't see them in Woollies. But one of those would give me the pip.

[facthunter]

They are designed to float long distances and be carried to far Desert Islands.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

Sort of like having hundreds and thousands on your Freckle.

[red750]

77 mm fell in 1 hour in Sydney today. Town Hall station under water, water cascading the steps.

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Far Canal!

[onetrack]

Lets get this into perspective - compare the rainfall at Cardwell (Qld) since the start of February .... they've had 1500mm in 10 days ... including 490mm in ONE day ....

 

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW4027.latest.shtml

 

 

Edited February 10 by onetrack

[spacesailor]

Cardwell the wettest place in Australia. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Used to be the South West  of Tassie. 190 Inches /year.  Nev

[kgwilson]

That is 4.826 metres so the record probably still stands. Cardwell only gets rain during the monsoon wet season & very little for the rest of the year.

[facthunter]

Warmer oceans will bring more of it. Nev

[onetrack]

Interestingly enough, the Indian Ocean in the Northern part of W.A. is around 3°C hotter than normal. There was a massive fish kill off the coast of Karratha last month, approximately 30,000 fish were found dead and floating in the ocean. An investigation found the high ocean temperature was responsible, the Indian Ocean has been 31°C instead of the normal 28°C.

 

But ... there have been several cyclones form on the warm waters off the Kimberley coast this season (where they mostly form, anyway) - and instead of following their normal track of travelling SW, then S, then SE, and then making landfall over the NW coast of W.A. - they have all simply gone SW or W, and have never made landfall.

 

Cyclone Taliah formed N of the Pilbara Coast on Sunday 2nd Feb 2025, it travelled SW, then turned W and has continued to travel Westerly until it passed S of the Cocos-Keeling Islands earlier this week.

It had zero effect on W.A., not a skerrick of rain reached any land in W.A. from Taliah.

It is still going Westwards in the central Indian Ocean (check the BOM Satellite imagery), and will leave the Australian area of weather responsibility tonight. It now appears to be travelling in a SW direction, and moisture from Taliah may bring some rain to W.A. next week. At present, we're enjoying a cool Southerly change from one of the hottest Januarys I can recall in my lifetime.

 

http://satview.bom.gov.au/

 

It's been an unusual cyclone season, only Cyclone Sean had any impact on W.A. this cyclone season, it brought heavy rain to coastal areas of the Pilbara, but kept going SW and eventually dissipated in the Central Indian Ocean.

 

http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/sean2025.shtml

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/marine-heatwave-pilbara-mass-fish-deaths/104852574

 

Cyclone Zelia has now formed W of Broome, it's forecast to make landfall somewhere along "Cyclone Alley" (80 Mile Beach, S of Wallal), but it will be interesting to see where it actually goes.

 

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60285.shtml

 

Edited February 11 by onetrack

[kgwilson]

The water temperature about 15 NM off the coast here at Corindi beach is currently 27 degrees. Normally it would be 24 to 25 degrees at this time of the year so 2 to 3 deg hotter than normal. Local fishers are complaining about no fish anywhere so I reckon they have all gone somewhere cooler. No cyclones yet but they will start forming within the next month or so & may track South & with the warm water could get pretty intense. We'll see.

Edited February 12 by kgwilson

[old man emu]

During the day I look to the west and watch the clouds build up and drift over. Then in the evening I look to the east and watch the lightning and know that those people over there are getting the water that's been sucked from the ground over here. 

 

I've mentioned before that is seems that you can draw a line passing northwest/southeast over my place and the storms pass on either side of it, but don't run along it, meaning that everyone else gets wet and I get dusty.

[onetrack]

Don't worry, OME, the day will come, when you'll be begging for it to stop raining! Australia, the land of extremes!

[onetrack]

Meantimes, spare a thought for the poor buggers in S.A., with many rural areas running out of drinking water, during the worst drought period in over 80 years.

 

Oddly enough, the 80 year weather cycle just keeps on popping up. 1944-1945 was one of the worst droughts in 80 years, affecting the both West, and the East, even more - and the 1944-45 drought was preceded by the 1864-65 drought - exactly 80 years before the WW2 drought!

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-12/fleurieu-peninsula-adelaide-hills-water-shortage-drought/104901646

 

https://history.flindersranges.com.au/living-with-the-land/the-great-1860s-drought/

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Where does the Federation drought fit in then? 1897 to 1903, by far the worst drought ever in eastern Australia.

[old man emu]

7 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Where does the Federation drought fit in then? 1897 to 1903,

Maybe there are a couple of different cycles operating and sometimes one or two cycles coincide. We now know that there is an eleven year solar cycle and that would have to influence rainfall. We should also look to see if here is a cycle in flood years. What the following list indicates is that maybe the cycles are shortening.

 

Previous droughts

• The Federation drought: 1895 to 1902.
• The 1914 to 1915 drought.
• The World War II drought: 1937 to 1945.
• The 1965 to 1968 drought.
• The 1982 to 1983 drought.
• The Millennium drought: 1997 to 2009.
• The 2017 to 2019 drought.

[facthunter]

Warmer oceans will bring more of it. Air mass analysis and where the high pressure systems are. Cyclones on the northern coastal part of WA affect  rainfall in the south east  Lows near Cape York bring rain to Qld. Nev

[onetrack]

10 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Where does the Federation drought fit in then? 1897 to 1903, by far the worst drought ever in eastern Australia.

Overlapping drought cycles of lengths that are different to the 80 year cycle.

[facthunter]

Causal factors are so variable I wouldn't give a lot of credence to the  fixed time cycle unless you can pin down a very specific  event like sunspot activity. A saturated countryside helps more rain to be likely  Highs tend to  persist over land masses. Things like rising ground help clouds to form  Most humidity is from Tropical Maritime sources. Polar air is very dry. You won't get floods from there but a cold front cools and slides under hot air and if THAT air is moist you get high lapse rates and convective clouds, storms and HAIL.   Nev