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Hope springs eternal..............
"Klara" wrote in message
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. Yes. A third of this years wheat crop has already been written off and food prices are rising. About 3 years ago my favourite breakfast cereal hit $8/ pkt (3.22 UK pounds) so I hate to think what it will be this year. Our Federal Government (which like the US, has refused to sign the Kyoto Agreement) has very suddenly begun to do an about face on climate change. They have finally realised that it is country people who run businesses or farm who are hurting badly and with an election less than a year away they are obviously getting a wee bit nervous as this is their main voter block. 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.) We never have a lot of clouds where I live and rarely get a day or more of rain, (or even overcast) just showers but even those have been rare of late. Some months there is no rainfall at all and most months with lower than average rainfall. We own one farm which we bought specifically to drought proof ourselves. It got about 50 inches of rain a year when we bought it about 14 years ago but that would be under 30 inches now. It is right on the edge of a coastal escarpment which is the type of location I knew from my childhood and this location usually means good rain as any clouds rolling in fromt eh sea usuallyd rop some rain as they come inland. The troubleis that most clouds are now coming across the Continent from the west it seems nad then swinging south before they hit the more productive land in the SE of Aus. |
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