Tram Town
Friday, February 04, 2005
| Category: Weather We've had a bit of wet weather here in Melbourne over the last couple of days and general infrastructure and emergency services have dealt with it magnificently. Depending on what statistics you go by, we are four days into February, which is generally a dry month, and it is already the wettest month on record. On Wednesday I woke up and saw the precipitation since yesterday at 9am and thought "whoa, an inch and a half in 24 hours!". The next morning I woke and found something more like 4-5 inches since 9am Wednesday. For the first time since the current state government has been elected there has been an official acknowledgement that rain has fallen in Melbourne's drinking water catchment My favourite moment, though, was an interview on yesterday's AM where a journalism school lightweight was interviewing a BOM operative and offered him every opportunity to invoke the Global Warming devil with questions of the form "what is the cause of this extraordinary event?", he replied that weather is a bit like cricket, there's always a record to be found. I could feel her deflation through the airwaves. |
