The (very wet) Tropics
It’s been raining. A lot. Constantly. If you pay heed to Queensland numberplates they advertise uniformly “The Sunshine State” - it is a lie in our experience so far!
OK, now we know the weather has been a little weird of late but ever since crossing the border from NSW our quota of cloud and cloud products has been exceeded. To check this in an impartial manner a quick look through the photos taken on a nearly daily basis revealed precisely 3 so far in Queensland with any hues of blue!
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So this little rant was started a few weeks ago and left to lapse whilst the sun was given a chance. Hinchinbrook Is. – gloomy with showers. Airlie Beach – rained. Mission Beach – storms. Cape Trib – overcast and damp. Inland and significantly north to Normanton – pissed down. We are now in ‘Gulf Country’ - the Wet finished months ago. So how come it’s still freakin’ raining?!! Seriously we were camped in this lovely oasis/gorge near Boodjamulla where one is advised there are trees to camp under out of the sun – so how come we are wearing thermals at 1pm??! The grader driver is reported to have said “I haven’t seen off season rain like this since 1952”.
What gives with all the cloud and associated precipitation? Is this what global warming looks like? Is one or possibly both of us unconscious raingods? (apologies to the late Douglas Adams) Is Huey trying to make up for the crackly dry SA we experienced?
Anyway the extent of the climate weirdness we’ve been experiencing has been confirmed in The Weekend Australian just gone, where they quote a rare “special climate statement” from the Bureau of Meteorology which outlined the many records broken in the north of Australia between 17 and 22 June - the wettest June on record and the coldest day on record. “Maximum temperatures below 10C were widespread on June 20 to an extent never previously seen in tropical Australia”, the bureau report says, “Fourteen stations in the tropics failed to reach 10C on that day.”
OK, now we know the weather has been a little weird of late but ever since crossing the border from NSW our quota of cloud and cloud products has been exceeded. To check this in an impartial manner a quick look through the photos taken on a nearly daily basis revealed precisely 3 so far in Queensland with any hues of blue!
* * * * * * * * * * * *
So this little rant was started a few weeks ago and left to lapse whilst the sun was given a chance. Hinchinbrook Is. – gloomy with showers. Airlie Beach – rained. Mission Beach – storms. Cape Trib – overcast and damp. Inland and significantly north to Normanton – pissed down. We are now in ‘Gulf Country’ - the Wet finished months ago. So how come it’s still freakin’ raining?!! Seriously we were camped in this lovely oasis/gorge near Boodjamulla where one is advised there are trees to camp under out of the sun – so how come we are wearing thermals at 1pm??! The grader driver is reported to have said “I haven’t seen off season rain like this since 1952”.
What gives with all the cloud and associated precipitation? Is this what global warming looks like? Is one or possibly both of us unconscious raingods? (apologies to the late Douglas Adams) Is Huey trying to make up for the crackly dry SA we experienced?
Anyway the extent of the climate weirdness we’ve been experiencing has been confirmed in The Weekend Australian just gone, where they quote a rare “special climate statement” from the Bureau of Meteorology which outlined the many records broken in the north of Australia between 17 and 22 June - the wettest June on record and the coldest day on record. “Maximum temperatures below 10C were widespread on June 20 to an extent never previously seen in tropical Australia”, the bureau report says, “Fourteen stations in the tropics failed to reach 10C on that day.”
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