More, less, whatever. It’s global warming.
Climate Council head Tim Flannery in 2005:
Where does Sydney go for more water?… There’s only two years’ water supply in Warragamba Dam… If the computer models are right then drought conditions will become permanent in eastern Australia.
Climate Council head Tim Flannery in 2007:
So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems…
Climate Council head Tim Flannery in 2007:
Brisbane’s dams today, including its main Wivenhoe dam:
Sydney’s dams today, including its main Warragamba dam:
Forecast today – more rains to fill those dams and our river systems:
A new low pressure weather system off Australia’s east coast has parts of southern Queensland and northern NSW bracing for heavy falls and near-cyclonic wind this weekend.
South-east Queensland including the Fraser Coast, Gold Coast and inland to the Darling Downs is set to receive falls of up to 400mm this afternoon and tomorrow.