"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:33:46 +0200, "JennyC"
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"Klara" wrote in message
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Farm1 writes
We've had 6 years of continuous drought where 30 year old trees have
tried
to die but been resurrected by 3 days of watering. Last year the
grasshoppers ate just about everything in the garden including stripping
the leaves totally off 2 apples.

I've heard about the dire effect on the Australian wheat harvest, etc.
So
worrying.

Maybe this is a silly question, but does 6 years of drought mean 6 years
unbroken sunshine and few if any clouds - or are the clouds up there,
the
rain just doesn't come down? (I guess I'm trying to get a picture of
drought in terms of how it works globally, now that there is drought in
so
many parts of the world.)
Klara, Gatwick basin

Interesting question Klara !
That's one of the things i love about the web..........it sets one of on
all
sorts of quests that you'd maybe not think of on your own:~)

Went a googling and found these:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/livedrought.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/le...hc/drought.htm

Al Gore's film might also be of interest (on a wider scale)....
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

When we were in South Australia and Victoria in February-March 2005
not only was there cloud, but it rained hard several times too.
Melbourne seems to have colder climate than Adelaide and elsewhere.
Flying over Australia the first cloud we encountered was around
Melbourne.
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Martin


We were in Darwin in February and it was hot. HOT hot, but you could see by
the lush vegetation that they do have rain and by the boardwalks in the
Forest and the way the scrub was 'swept' one way, they had a lot of rain
complete with floods and fast flowing water.

Mike


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