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| Thread ID: 78584 | 2007-04-21 03:31:00 | NZ/Australia Drought? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 542786 | 2007-04-21 03:31:00 | There are serious news stories on US TV about youse guys having some really bad lack of rain and droughts . What's the true story? :confused: We get some badly hyped info here . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542787 | 2007-04-21 03:41:00 | Not really in NZ. Some parts yes but its far worse for Australia and they could face a total shutdown of their irrigation systems unless their catchment areas get a massive amount of rain in the next month or so. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 542788 | 2007-04-21 03:57:00 | Well, our grass here is bright green, the sky is bright blue and the dirt is pleasantly damp. Dunno if others are organising their weather properly. (And BTW, we are further from Australia than you are from Canada.) ;) ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 542789 | 2007-04-21 04:22:00 | Yeah..but...you are also under the Equator at about the same latitude....just want to know... It's really hard to visualize NZ as we never have done much studying of your island..sorry..but I am the less for it mate. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542790 | 2007-04-21 04:56:00 | Hi Surfer Joe, Where I live (Hawkes Bay, East Coast, North Island) we have had almost 100mm of rain in the first four months of this year - not a lot! Total fire restrictions are in place as it is tinder dry here. Should one be silly enough to light any sort of fire outdoors in my rural area - one can be fined the total cost of extinguishing it! This can be $100.000's. The west coast of New Zealand lies in the path of the prevailing nor'westerlies and so most rain falls on that coast. Because of the alpine spine, we on the east coast lie in the lee of the mountains and only usually get heavy rain from a tropical cyclone - (should it come this far south) or a southerly blast from Antarctica. It is Autumn here, and we had our first (mild) frost last night so unless we get some rain very soon - there will be nil growth until spring. Not good for the farming community... |
Oldferix (5581) | ||
| 542791 | 2007-04-21 05:26:00 | Hi Surfer Joe, Where I live (Hawkes Bay, East Coast, North Island) we have had almost 100mm of rain in the first four months of this year - not a lot! Total fire restrictions are in place as it is tinder dry here. Should one be silly enough to light any sort of fire outdoors in my rural area - one can be fined the total cost of extinguishing it! This can be $100.000's. The west coast of New Zealand lies in the path of the prevailing nor'westerlies and so most rain falls on that coast. Because of the alpine spine, we on the east coast lie in the lee of the mountains and only usually get heavy rain from a tropical cyclone - (should it come this far south) or a southerly blast from Antarctica. It is Autumn here, and we had our first (mild) frost last night so unless we get some rain very soon - there will be nil growth until spring. Not good for the farming community... Thanks for that info...I'm going to Google your Hawkes Bay and see where the heck youse guys live. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542792 | 2007-04-21 06:16:00 | 39º30'23 . 78" S / 176º53'39 . 39" E is approx equal to our Maryland at the obtuse North latitude and it gets very little snow . . once in a while . . . but usually pretty and well-watered . It is close to sea level, with an Eastern exposure to the Atlantic ocean . Some small hillocks and rolling pasture lands that are not consumed by buildings and infrastructure are there and this is also the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, some very scenic mountains that are well-weathered by time and erosion . . There are some pleasant winds from the Chesapeake Bay to moderate the temperatures in Summer, although those times are fairly humid . I lived in Norfolk, Virginia for a few years, and although it isn't exactly the same inverted latitude, I figger it was close enough to experience the good although inverted seasons like you . Winter winds can be harsh, but not enough to do much more than bend a few trees and break some power lines down . In California, the same latitude is Lake Tahoe, on the California/Nevada border-intersection, not far from Reno (a large casino in reality) . Almost on the same rung of the world is San Francisco . The California areas don't have anywhere near the same weather patterns, but I feel Maryland does . San Francisco is still the worst place I ever went and visited . It is cold, nasty winds and damp . That was in the Summer . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542793 | 2007-04-21 06:38:00 | Don't forget Joe, NZ consists of two relatively small islands surrounded by thousands of miles of sea. So we don't have the sort of climates associated with large land masses, though the Central Otago region of the South Island does experience temperature extremes between summer and winter that is more like the interior of a large land mass. You can tell how small the islands are, there is an annual coast to coast race, running cycling, kayaking, 243 Km that the top athletes will complete in a day. You'd have a job to do a coast to coast in a day in the US or Australia: http://www.coasttocoast.co.nz/ |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 542794 | 2007-04-21 06:57:00 | Joe buddy You're lucky we are understanding bunch of kiwi's here at press f1, because lumping us together with Australians is like calling an American a Canadain and gets a similar reaction. But seriously Joe The Land of the Long White Cloud (en.wikipedia.org) is moist and green. |
beama (111) | ||
| 542795 | 2007-04-21 10:20:00 | similar latitudes? not really, aussie is huge and we are (overall) further south, and due to their large land mass, completely different weather. have a look on google earth as mentioned above, NZs weather is largely dictated by the sea, antarctica and australia, with local mountains to cause drought in their shadow. every year we have this problem (and i hear every year it gets worse), just like how we in nz have major flooding of farmland at a certain time of year. again they built the farms on a floodplain, and you'd think they'd realise after the 3rd flood or so that this isn't a one-off thing, just like northland/hawkes bay drying up in summer and otago getting buried in snow in winter etc etc. then again, this is the country that has built a city ontop of a visibly volcanically/geothermally active area (rotorua), our capital rest on reclaimed land straddling a fault line and auckland, out major city in ontop of a huge dormant volcanic field lol kinda like how over there in the states you always have forest fires in the same area year after year |
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