Sunday, February 10, 2008
YEARN FOR WARMENING
It’s briefly dry in Sydney, but we’ll soon be back to ...
Rain, rain and more rain. That’s the forecast for the next two months as Sydney yearns for a little ray of summer sunshine.
The incredible deluge has been filling dams at a rate of knots and has put the Kurnell desalination plant site under water.
Appin’s Cataract Dam is full for the first time since December 1999, with water starting to spill on Thursday night.
Shoalhaven’s Tallowa Dam, which supplies that region and is used to top up Warragamba Dam during dry spells, is also full ...
With no more rain and unchanged demand, Sydney now has enough water in storage to last for 3.1 years.
Given the current mood for sorriness, shouldn’t reckless drought fearmonger Tim Flannery be asked to apologise? Possibly he’d react with his famous lofty disdain. I wonder how Flannery’s defenders are feeling these days; damp, I guess.