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Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:32 pm**

The air up here has really dryed out up here with temp 29.8 and dp 12.5.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:36 pm**

Down here in Geelong we ended up with about 125mm for the event. The most we have had in a while. Heaviest day was 48.4mm on the 14th. The Barwon is in Moderate flood at 3.3m and rising. BOM haven't given a peak as yet but expect it to be below Major flood levels like we had in 95 and 05.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:38 pm**

norfolk wrote:Finally we can dry up! I would rather weeks of THIS kind of weather than what we have just gone through! One thing I noticed yesterday was all the dragonflies everywhere! Swarming all over the place. I don't think I have seen this many dragonflies about for a very very long time!

Tony, my wife & I were just discussing the very same thing during lunch while walking around Lake Caroline. I lived the first 25 years of my life on properties with creeks running behind us & I've never seen this many dragonflies in one place!

Still a bit humid here, but certainly no where near as bad as the past week.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:20 pm**

FYI
we recieved 209 and 287 mm in 4 days on 2 properties only 5 km apart.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:52 pm**

sure there is a thread for all this warming chat.???

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:00 pm**

Indeed there is Michelle, thanks!

A friendly reminder to keep on topic for these threads. There is a dedicated sub-forum for all things Climatology. If anyone wishes to contribute to the discussions - and all the above is great, just in the wrong place - please feel free to keep it in there... If anyone wants the password for the sub-forum, please shoot a PM to Karl, me, or any of the Moderator team

Magnificent day out there today, lovely to have the humidity back under control so I can do some gardening

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:42 pm**

Full Wimmera River earlier Today, shots from Horsham today.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:45 pm**

This is what summer is all about! High 20's temps, light winds with a cooler breeze in the afternoon!!! Not that insane humidity we have just gone through.

28.9 today

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:57 pm**

Horsham

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:22 pm**

hillybilly wrote:
As to off topic global warming talk then ROFL DJ, 2010 was a strong (not super) el nino year and was statistically insignificant to 1998, so the world only warmed slightly since then.
2009 was a modest El Nino which ended quickly. 1997 was the strongest El Nino in a century.

10 years of global warming now mean even a modest El Nino is as hot as the strongest in a century.

At least know we agree the planet is warming which is progress.

And here's the SSTs around Australia - the trend is obvious. And the unprecedent heat in our oceans is why we've had just insane humidity around Australia the last 6 months. Hotter oceans -> more evaporation -> higher humidity.

HB your chart clearly shows the Australian seawater temp rising in the past 110 years. WHAT WATER WHERE!!??

0.8C/hundred years......well we are all safe then! The warmists have us warming at 0.5C/year and about to "tip over" arnt they. Talk about shooting onself in the foot!

Why does HB's post stick? - I bet mine will be deleted - something smells here.!

Still humid here today, 32C and a sweaty round of golf, cloud cleared to a hot sunny and calm arvo, baro kicked up to 1010hPa.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:55 pm**

Careful Petros. Youve got the Ton.
Myabe the tally should have deleted posts noted also.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:59 pm**

Petros wrote:
hillybilly wrote:
As to off topic global warming talk then ROFL DJ, 2010 was a strong (not super) el nino year and was statistically insignificant to 1998, so the world only warmed slightly since then.

Just had another look at this chart... it shows a trendline running 100 years (I think the trend line maths looks dodgy).... LOOK AT THE FOOTER!!! THE WARMING TREND ONLY USES THE LAST FEW DECADES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yet 100 years is displayed.

I hope HB is a school teacher or someone that cant be expected to know better - if this is a genuine BOM document, we have an English style BOM snowscreeen happening here too.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:52 pm**

[/quote] I hope HB is a school teacher or someone that cant be expected to know better - .[/quote]

If you are implying that teachers are not expected to know better...I find this offensive as I am a teacher. We don't need this kind of comment on the forum.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:56 pm**

This topic is now closed, as Chris mentioned earlier all talk re climate is in the climatology forum.

Please feel free to post in the ongoing warnings thread for this flood emergency.

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