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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 7-Jul-2009 At 3:06:26 PM R James

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On 6/07/2009 lacto wrote:
Victoria where ????canada , africa certainly
>not australia . Nothing abnormal in the rainfall? try looking at dam levels
>desal plants water restrictions . Murray Darling Basin have stated that
>inflow last year were 50 % lower than the previous minimum and this year
>the same ! certainly the driest 13 years since records kept by a long way

Perhaps you can explain why the Australian Bureau of Meteorology shows no significant change in rainfall patterns over the past 109 years. We have dry and wet periods Certainly Victorian rainfall has been low for the last few years, but it's also happened in the past (eg 1940). Note that when they fit a linear trend, it looks dead flat - no change. For patterns to continue, we should see heavy rainfall in the next couple of years. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rain&area=vic&season=0112&ave_yr=-1

What certainly has changed is population size.