Summer?

[NTSOG]

G'day,

51 mm rain over night and today. Paddocks are green and grass is still growing after all the rain we've had over the last few weeks. The cattle are very fat. We cut and bailed just before the first heavy rain shower came, but many in our district [Ballarat] got caught out. [There are 2000 small squares about 600 yards away up a hill side. The farmer cut 2500 and only managed to get 500 under cover before the first heavy 25mm fall. The bales have had at least 100 mm on them now. They're stuffed.]

It's been a pretty strange season given the weather folks - including the buxom Jane B, - have been talking about el Nino and the possibility of a drier summer. I'm happy for it to keep raining, but don't understand exactly what's happening.

Jim

[Blr243]

Trying to understand the weather no different to trying to understand the thought process of a woman

[Oldbloke]

Trying to understand the weather no different to trying to understand the thought process of a woman

[Lazarus]

Science Alert

For every 1°C the air temperature goes up, it can hold 7% more moisture, ergo, more rain.

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-na ... %20warming.

[Oldbloke]

Science Alert

For every 1°C the air temperature goes up, it can hold 7% more moisture, ergo, more rain.

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-na ... %20warming.

Thx Laz. An interesting read.

[wanneroo]

We have El Nino in full effect here. Every time we get a moisture flow of warmer wetter air that flows up from the Gulf of Mexico and typically the colder drier arctic air stays up north in Canada. If we can get cold enough temps down from Canada hitting the river of warm wet air, often that can result in a snowy winter. But if the cold air stays too far north it will tend to be more rainy and warmer.

However the next few weeks they say the warm air is going to oscillate into the western Arctic and push the cold down east turning temps very cold for a few weeks, the so called "Polar Vortex".

[on_one_wheel]

Dam chem trails

[Shootermick]

106 mm here since the 9th of December, not far west of Ballarat.
Harvest is going great……not.

[stihl88]

Were about 120mm shy of our annual average (820mm) but the rain we have had has been frequent enough to keep the grass green.

Grassland curing maps show things are a little drier than this time last year.

December 2022

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December 2023

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Soil Moisture Levels (https://awo.bom.gov.au/products/histori ... 2023-12-29) from 'lower' through to 'root' zone are sitting at average/above average for most of the state however 'deep' zone is a little lower.

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A GREAT online weather site here https://www.windy.com