Climatic tease.
Heading south-east from Walgett, New South Wales today we entered wheat country, where, despite the drought, they have planted some wheat crops. They have not had a winter wheat crop for at least three years and this is a major production area. I guess this is the summer crop if it survives. Australia is a significant wheat exporter but at the moment, we are importing as well as sucking up whatever is growing in Western Australia for the eastern states. But the green attempts to paint a lie about the seriousness of the drought. Everyone knows about our massive kangaroo numbers but in 400 kilometres today, while we saw more emus, we only saw one live and two dead kangaroos. While that makes it safer on the roads, it does indicate the depth of the great dry.
There is an Antarctic cold blast heading across southern Australia in the next few days, bringing strong winds, freezing temperatures, snow to lower slopes and hail....and perhaps some rain. In our first hour or two this morning, we passed through several ever so brief and teasing showers of rain, totally useless. You can see some of them dropping small fingers of rain from the clouds in this shot near the town of Coonamble. Let’s hope for lots more, the land is so far behind now, towns are literally running out of water so we need lots and lots of water to catch up.
Climatic tease.
Heading south-east from Walgett, New South Wales today we entered wheat country, where, despite the drought, they have planted some wheat crops. They have not had a winter wheat crop for at least three years and this is a major production area. I guess this is the summer crop if it survives. Australia is a significant wheat exporter but at the moment, we are importing as well as sucking up whatever is growing in Western Australia for the eastern states. But the green attempts to paint a lie about the seriousness of the drought. Everyone knows about our massive kangaroo numbers but in 400 kilometres today, while we saw more emus, we only saw one live and two dead kangaroos. While that makes it safer on the roads, it does indicate the depth of the great dry.
There is an Antarctic cold blast heading across southern Australia in the next few days, bringing strong winds, freezing temperatures, snow to lower slopes and hail....and perhaps some rain. In our first hour or two this morning, we passed through several ever so brief and teasing showers of rain, totally useless. You can see some of them dropping small fingers of rain from the clouds in this shot near the town of Coonamble. Let’s hope for lots more, the land is so far behind now, towns are literally running out of water so we need lots and lots of water to catch up.