It's Australia you got to expect it! Or you could take Donald Trump's line and say "well you knew what you were signing up for".
Extracts from BOM Monthly Climate Drought Report (Sep 2017)
Driest September on record for Murray–Darling Basin exacerbates deficiencies in eastern Australia
Rainfall was very much below average (ranked in the lowest 10% of records) for a large area of the mainland southeast...
Queensland it was the tenth-driest September since records commenced in 1900...
Dry conditions have been exacerbated by exceptional warmth across most of the country...
Maxima for Queensland were the second-warmest on record for the month...
To read the full report- http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/drought.shtml
But at the very least, the rest of us should understand that farmers are doing it tough at the moment.
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| The Maranoa in the good days |
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| Come to town for the green grass. |
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| Neil Turner Weir. Just a puddle behind the wall. |
