The ABC have a story – Bustard Head Lighthouse near Agnes Water a relaxing place for volunteers to house-sit 31Dec22
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-31/agnes-water-lighthouse-volunteer-caretakers/101801360
When I check on BoM Climate Data Online (CDO) rainfall data for Bustard Head Lighthouse #39018 starts at 1885 and looks mostly complete to 1985 (when it was automated) then a big gap to 2003 then it is riddled with gaps to the present as is much weather data from the wide brown land. www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/?ref=ftr
Temperature shows in two blocks – 1913 to 1938 then 1953 to 1986. So we can record rainfall in recent decades but temperature is beyond the capacity of Australia, yet the photo in the ABC article shows a Stevenson screen.
In 2014 there was another media story – Lighthouse of horror: The disturbing history of Queensland’s Bustard Head lightstation Sam Clench 23May2014 www.news.com.au/travel/lighthouse-of-horror-the-disturbing-history-of-queenslands-bustard-head-lightstation/news-story/e44d619f78bcfa4dd275dafb04870968
I also blogged on the subject in 2015 – Was the automating of Australian lighthouses in the 1990’s a policy stupidity ?
www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=3886
Monthly Archives: December 2022
So irrigation is only 1% of the Murray–Darling Basin!!!
The BoM has opened new www pages about the MDB and this “megafact” jumps out.
mdbwip.bom.gov.au/999/#4.6/-31.5/147
1,061,469 km2 total area of MDB.
11,000 km2 irrigated area (2019–20) – 1% of total area.
Our GreenLeft anti-dam brigade that now rules the wide brown land works hard to increase river water wasting to the sea.
I will add data putting MDB dams in true perspective.
Our GreenLeft ALPABC has just published this bad mouthing of Burrendong Dam.
From ‘moonscape’ to ‘oasis’, the pitfalls of controlling water in worsening climate extremes
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-20/how-to-manage-water-as-climate-extremes-deepen/101769978
NSW cold records tumbling in mild start Australian summer
We knew as data came in for November that the BoM Australian mean temperature series ACORN 2.2 showed broad agreement with lower troposphere NASA satellite data from the University of Alabama at Huntsville as both showed a cooler period after 2020 – see chart by Perth based Chris Gillham of Scribeworks at waclimate.net/australia-cooling.html We know that Australia is experiencing its third consecutive LaNina and a few years of much rainfall and flooding. As December started there were BoM sourced media stories of heatwaves or forecast heatwaves but I am not aware of any heatwaves happening much. Links below in my comment as editing function is reduced in my main posts.
Eugowra NSW flood history from the 1800’s out of old newspapers
This is a guest article by Lance Pidgeon who has put time into extracting old press reports from Trove the National Library of Australia pages of historic newspapers.
EUGOWRA. MOST CLUELESS FLOOD WARNING ON RECORD? by Lance Pidgeon. see links in first comment below
There is an image from trove missing at the start of Lance’s article –
By chance Our ABC compiled a photo essay “Wiped out and wanting answers – As the residents of Eugowra begin to rebuild their lives after a deadly flash flood saw them clambering onto rooftops, they are also searching for answers as to how the scale of the disaster caught them by surprise. By Xanthe Gregory and Jessica Clifford ABC Central West Updated 6 Dec 2022