Rain

How Are You Bob?

12 January 2011 Australian Climate

As you know, and as the world now probably knows, on Monday the Queensland flood crisis took a sinister turn as what has been called a wall of water and described as an inland tsunami swept through the Lockyer Valley, an area just an hour or so drive west of Brisbane. At least 10 lives [...]

It Is The Night Before Christmas…

24 December 2010 Life in Australia

The vast majority of my readers come from the UK, Australia or the USA. My best guess is that half of us (that’ll be the Australian readers and those living in California) are dreaming of a dry Christmas. The rest of you are probably going to get a white one. Given the choice out of [...]

I’m Dreaming of a Dry Christmas

17 December 2010 Australian Climate

Barely a week to go to Christmas and I’ve heard that Britain is bracing itself for a battering of snow. Here in south-east Queensland, we are also being battered, by storms! Yes, it’s storm season in Australia. Yesterday afternoon, more than 100,000 homes lost power as a ferocious storm ripped through Brisbane. 28,000 lightning strikes [...]

Queensland, The Sometimes Sunshine State

18 October 2010 Australian Climate

I got through a whole post on Friday without mentioning the rain. Didn’t think I’d be able to, but I did. But with an opening like this, you’d be forgiven for thinking I am about to whinge like a whingeing Pom about the rain again. Well, not quite. I am pleased to report that normal [...]

Uluru – The Movie

16 August 2010 Australia's Places

It’s been a while since I had my last holiday, May actually. Oh, that’s not so long ago is it? Anyway, if you remember, I went to Alice Springs and Uluru. I suppose most of you already know that Uluru is slap bang in the middle of Australia. Anyway, I realised over the weekend that [...]

Australia: Acclimatising to the Weather

31 May 2010 Australian Climate

OK, the love affair with shorts is over! Yesterday my sister and brother-in-law jumped on a plane headed back to Old Blighty and they took the rain with them, just as they had bought it here in the first place. Or had they? I’ll come to that in a minute and also explain my heading [...]

Australia’s Autumn Weather: A Snapshot Around the Country

12 April 2010 Australian Climate

Has anybody noticed that I haven’t spoken about the weather since 24th of March? Let’s sort that ridiculous situation out right now. The four seasons in Australia. I was sure I had written a post elsewhere on this blog about the four seasons here in Australia, but I can’t find it. So I thought today [...]

Global Warming? More Like Global Wetting!

8 March 2010 Australian Climate

As they say, “When it rains, it pours”. I have no intention of turning this blog into The Weather Channel, (as I said last winter) but over this last week or so the talk here has been all about the weather. I’ve already mentioned the towns that have been flooded in south-west Queensland, but following [...]

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