Crikey it’s wet

[Jerry_Atrick]

5 hours ago, old man emu said:

Looking at the radar, it seems that the Great Divide is doing just that - dividing the flooded east from the dry west.

The Fohn Effect in action!

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

The Fohn Effect in action!

Well, the drier air is definitely warm. Warm in the sense that the temperature is around 20C during the day, which is warm for late May.

[red750]

[onetrack]

But fossil-fuelled vehicles are equally useless! So much for the anti-EV brigade rant. All the people drowned drove their fossil-fuelled vehicles into deep floodwaters.

EV's have the same fording depth ability as fossil-fuelled vehicles.

 

I was sitting on 120kmh in my diesel Hilux on the freeway yesterday, heading North to Muchea, when a Tesla came up behind me, going faster. He pulled up level with me for a minute, then took off in an acceleration spurt, that no fossil-fuelled vehicle could ever achieve. The HP ratings of some of the more powerful EV's put IC engines to shame.

 

In floods, there's not much use for any currency, either cash or electronic. You're just looking for food and drinkable water, and hopefully find some rescuer prepared to provide them for free. Money doesn't come into it when rescuing people from life-threatening disasters.

[facthunter]

 A flooded Service station is not much good  for a long time. Corded power tools are practically obsolete, now.  Electric is  coming.  Nev

[spacesailor]

In the west as on the outback farms , diesel tanks are elevated & don't need electricity.

so , you can get fuel if you have the  " money " .

credit is only for the wealthy that have an account .

spacesailor

[red750]

[facthunter]

It's really SA that's in severe drought, and Western NSW and north Western Victoria. Nev

[onetrack]

We actually got a little bit of rain in the Lower West over the last couple of days, but it never made it very far inland. In the City we got 11mm on Friday and another 17mm yesterday, up to 9:00AM this morning. But the Wheatbelt and even the Lower Great Southern didn't get anything worthwhile, a few mm at best in some of the coastal and near-coastal areas of the Lower Great Southern.

 

I had to take a drive to just out of Albany yesterday to deliver some items to a buyer. I was surprised at how dry the Great Southern was. Many crops struggling to get out of the ground due to insufficient moisture and it was only when I got down near Mount Barker (W.A.) that the country had a green tinge to it, and early crops (canola especially) were looking quite good.

 

The farmers must all be confident, the agricultural authorities are saying the area sown to crops this season in W.A. has increased by 2%, with an emphasis on canola sowings, and a pullback on the area sown to wheat and barley and oats. Canola has an advantage in dry start seasons, it will cope with a long dry spell better than wheat, which is surprising to me.