Queensland’s floods have cost grain farmers an estimated $400 million

[westwall]

Appears the storms may not wait for our grandchildren.

You know if you read the Epic of Gilgamesh they speak of a flood then too. At least 3000 years before Christ. Amazing huh. Floods happen.

 

[Old Rocks]

LOL. Well Walleyes, watch for black helicopters and don't forget to put on your little tin hat before you go to bed. Mustn't let librul brainwaves invade your little virgin brain.

 

[ScienceRocks]

New Zealand

Flooded old homes doomed

The cleanup of Tuesday’s storm damage to homes, farms, roads and bridges is continuing and affected residents are making insurance claims.

Ms Bouillir said some of the houses would be condemned because they were beyond salvaging.

“The fine silt that gets into everything is very damaging. Some of the houses are old and to try to repair them may cost far more than knocking them down.”

The worst affected homes were in the Aorere Valley, Ferntown area.

Today Civil Defence staff were holding a debrief in Golden Bay, West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O’Connor was visiting the flood-affected areas and Tasman District Council held another meeting that included Rural Support Trust officer Ian Blair. Stuff.co.nz - Latest New Zealand News & World News, Sports News & NZ Weather Forecasts nelson-mail/ news/ 4505518/ Flooded-old-homes-doomed

 

[westwall]

LOL. Well Walleyes, watch for black helicopters and don't forget to put on your little tin hat before you go to bed. Mustn't let librul brainwaves invade your little virgin brain.

What pray tell do black helicopters have to do with history? You silly people are amazed that floods happen. You are amazed that natural disasters actually occur. And when it is pointed out to you that they have been occuring since man was writing things down you resort to personal insult.

Congrats, you just made my job easier!

 

[westwall]

Wow, looky here the weather in Europe way back in 1651 SUCKED!

A cold winter in western Europe / implied for much of Britain. (Easton, in CHMW/Lamb).
December 10th (OS)/20th(NS): The east coastal counties/areas of Scotland, particularly Fife, the Lothians & the Firth of Forth estuary, were affected by what Hubert Lamb has interpreted as a severe gale from the east. This brought, in addition to the high winds, much snow, and the combination of snow and wind (or blizzard conditions) for many hours drove ships onshore, wrecked vessels in harbour, and breached sea defences, piers, harbour walls etc. Many trees were also lost and buildings inland damaged or destroyed. This must have been some event given the implied wind direction, with a significant high 'block' to the north and strong cyclogenesis to the south.
Particularly harsh weather this winter across Scotland with 'excessive' snow & rain. According to records kept by foreign ambassadors, the cold/snow was also a feature in London, so a widespread harsh winter seems likely across these islands.
March & April in Scotland (at least - perhaps elsewhere across Britain) were cold, with frequent frosts.

Some notable weather events

 

[ScienceRocks]

Extreme Weather Impacting Australia
Military aircraft are dropping supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia in an area larger than France and Germany combined. NewsLook videos/ 279477-extreme-weather-impacting-australia?autoplay=true

 

[ScienceRocks]

2010: A Record Breaking Wet Year in the Caribbean

By Rob Miller, Senior Meteorologist

Jan 1, 2011; 11:00 AM ET
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Residents of San Juan, Puerto Rico will remember 2010 as the wettest year on record.
Throughout the year, 89.51 inches of rain accumulated in the city. This is nearly double the normal amount of yearly rainfall, which is 50.76 inches.
Despite the excessive amount of rain, rain fell on 199 of the 365 days, which is nearly the average amount of rainy days in a year (average is 202 days). San Juan did, however, break 2 records on the way to the yearly record. The first record was the number of rainfall amounts over 0.25 of an inch, which occurred 95 times. The other record was the number of 1 inch or more rainfall amounts, which occurred 28 times in 2010.

 

[westwall]

Wow, who would uh thunk it, the worst flood to hit Oz so far (that we actually know of) happened way back in 1852!


"By Thursday June 24th 1852 torrential rain had been falling in the Snowy Mountains for weeks, but a sudden deluge created a giant swell in the Murrumbidgee River. People living on the river flat weren’t overly concerned, they had experienced floods in the past and had no way of predicting that a rolling wall of water was headed their way. The flood hit without warning in the middle of the night. Houses collapsed and were swept away, some of the more solid buildings withstood the onslaught such as the Rose Inn and the old Flour Mill. People clambered onto the remaining roofs and into trees, spending a night of horror listening to the screams of other people as they were carried away in the raging current. The real heroes of that tragic night were a group of Aboriginal people lead by a young man called Yarri. Using their flimsy bark canoes, they saved as many people as they could. It’s reported that they saved 49 people that night. It remains Australia’s worst flood disaster; Gundagai moved to higher ground and 20 years later with the discovery of gold nearby it was again a thriving township."



Australian Icons - Gundagai

 

[uscitizen]

Queensland’s floods have cost grain farmers an estimated $400 million and the bill will certainly rise, AgForce says.

Australian and World News - Main Stories - ninemsn News national/ 8189371/ qld-grain-farmers-devastated-by-floods

so we need to buy grain futures so we can raise the price for everyone and make more money for ourselves?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Cities evacuated as flooding spreads in Australia

Residents of Rockhampton, Australia, joined a growing number of evacuees on Saturday as floodwaters threatened to sink the coastal city as the water spread across the country.

Days of rain have overflowed riverbeds and flooded an area of Australia larger than France and Germany combined.

“In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions,” Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser told reporters in the flooded city of Bundaberg on Saturday. CTV Calgary - Calgary News, Sports, Entertainment, Lottery Results, Traffic, Weather, Contests servlet/ an/ local/ CTVNews/ 20110101/ australia-flooding-evacuations-110101/ 20110101/ ?hub=CalgaryHome

 

[ScienceRocks]

Over 364,000 affected in Sri Lanka floods

… more than 364,000 people were affected by flash floods in several parts of Sri Lanka, Xinhua reported Saturday.

The eastern Batticaloa district was the worst affected with over 330,000 people marooned, the disaster management centre said.

A total of 1,400 houses were destroyed and 3,500 more damaged, it said. Over 16,000 affected people are housed in 63 relief camps. India News | Indian Business, Finance News | Sports: Cricket India | Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu Movies |Sify Mail,Astrology, Indian Recipes news/ over-364-000-affected-in-sri-lanka-floods-news-international-lbbuuddfedj.html

 

[ScienceRocks]

Floods ruin 60,000 acre paddy crops in Batticaloa district TamilNet art.html?catid=13&artid=33299

 

[westwall]

Over 364,000 affected in Sri Lanka floods

… more than 364,000 people were affected by flash floods in several parts of Sri Lanka, Xinhua reported Saturday.

The eastern Batticaloa district was the worst affected with over 330,000 people marooned, the disaster management centre said.

A total of 1,400 houses were destroyed and 3,500 more damaged, it said. Over 16,000 affected people are housed in 63 relief camps. India News | Indian Business, Finance News | Sports: Cricket India | Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu Movies |Sify Mail,Astrology, Indian Recipes news/ over-364-000-affected-in-sri-lanka-floods-news-international-lbbuuddfedj.html

Here's a post from the world socialist web site for you Matthew, or should I call you Chris Jr.? It seems these floods happen with some regularity...who knew? (well actually anyone who reads knew that but we'll humour you) so the first link is about the floods in 2003, and the second one is from 2009 (I see you missed that one), there was also an important flood in 1803 that led to the trapping and destruction of a British force (only one man returned home!), there was another flood in 1817 that also affected the revolt against British rule. The last link has a flood incidence map from 1957 to 1995 and you know what? It floods almost every year!

Nearly one million left homeless by Sri Lankan floods

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/world/asia/16lanka.html

http://iri.columbia.edu/~mahaweli/maps4atlas/floodincidence.jpg

 

[ScienceRocks]

West Im not debating warming with this post, but posting this because i enjoy and have a interest in weather and record events.

 

[westwall]

West Im not debating warming with this post, but posting this because i enjoy and have a interest in weather and record events.

That's fine. Make it interesting then. This is like Chris's endless droning and is boring as hell. I too like studying how mother nature works but try putting some historical perspective with the posts. It's far more interesting and people will actually learn something instead of saying to themselves "great more useless drivel from the Chris of the moment"

If you want to make a good post try linking to the disaster du-jour, then linking to a past event and studying whether the powers that be learned anything from the first time around. Sadly, most often they don't and the disasters repeat.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I enjoy posting it...I keep them in this thread...

“Rain has fallen across Queensland at up to six times the December average…Among the worst hit was the Mt Jukes area north of Mackay, which copped just over 1m – 1007mm of rain – last month.

Gin Gin, a town of 3000 people 50km west of Bundaberg, received 800.1mm since the start of the month – six times the average of 121.5mm.

Miriam Vale, near Gladstone, broke its 1921 December rainfall record with 821.2mm, well above the average 138.8mm.

Brisbane – where the CBD gets on average about 133.3mm of rain in December – has seen 479.8mm last month so far.”

Courier Mail | Latest Brisbane and Queensland QLD news | CourierMail news/ features/ queensland-rainfall-six-times-the-december-average-in-2010/ story-e6freorf-1225979643002

 

[Old Rocks]

West Im not debating warming with this post, but posting this because i enjoy and have a interest in weather and record events.

That's fine. Make it interesting then. This is like Chris's endless droning and is boring as hell. I too like studying how mother nature works but try putting some historical perspective with the posts. It's far more interesting and people will actually learn something instead of saying to themselves "great more useless drivel from the Chris of the moment"

If you want to make a good post try linking to the disaster du-jour, then linking to a past event and studying whether the powers that be learned anything from the first time around. Sadly, most often they don't and the disasters repeat.

Events are kicking ol' Walleyes ass, and he hates to admit that the number of precipitation events are very much out of the ordinery.

As the number and timing of the events affect more and more agriculteral areas, we will see the effects at the local supermarket.

 

[Old Rocks]

Are 2010 weather extremes a sign of global climate change? CSW interview on Al Jazeera English TV | Climate Science Watch

But note in Figure 1, and similar maps for other months, that the area warmer than climatology already (with global warming of 0.55°C relative to 195 1-1980) is noticeably larger than the area cooler than climatology. Also the magnitude of warm anomalies now usually exceeds the magnitude of cool anomalies.

What we can say is that global warming has an effect on the probability and intensity of extreme events. This is true for precipitation as well as temperature, because the amount of water vapor that the air carries is a strong function of temperature. So the frequency of extremely heavy rain and floods increases as global warming increases. But at times and places of drought, global warming can increase the extremity of temperature and associated events such as forest fires.

 

[westwall]

West Im not debating warming with this post, but posting this because i enjoy and have a interest in weather and record events.

That's fine. Make it interesting then. This is like Chris's endless droning and is boring as hell. I too like studying how mother nature works but try putting some historical perspective with the posts. It's far more interesting and people will actually learn something instead of saying to themselves "great more useless drivel from the Chris of the moment"

If you want to make a good post try linking to the disaster du-jour, then linking to a past event and studying whether the powers that be learned anything from the first time around. Sadly, most often they don't and the disasters repeat.

Events are kicking ol' Walleyes ass, and he hates to admit that the number of precipitation events are very much out of the ordinery.

As the number and timing of the events affect more and more agriculteral areas, we will see the effects at the local supermarket.

I guess you can't read then olfraud. For every "precipitation event" you post this year I can post thousands from years past. This is just more boring droning where nothing is learned. But hey you can enjoy the boredom all you want. You are easily amused. Simple people are.

 

[westwall]

Are 2010 weather extremes a sign of global climate change? CSW interview on Al Jazeera English*TV | Climate Science Watch

But note in Figure 1, and similar maps for other months, that the area warmer than climatology already (with global warming of 0.55°C relative to 195 1-1980) is noticeably larger than the area cooler than climatology. Also the magnitude of warm anomalies now usually exceeds the magnitude of cool anomalies.

What we can say is that global warming has an effect on the probability and intensity of extreme events. This is true for precipitation as well as temperature, because the amount of water vapor that the air carries is a strong function of temperature. So the frequency of extremely heavy rain and floods increases as global warming increases. But at times and places of drought, global warming can increase the extremity of temperature and associated events such as forest fires.