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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 398660" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Hi Fran. We still have the decorations up. mother in law will probably take them down on 6 January.</p><p>About tornadoes in Australia - we don't seem to get the really big bad ones like you get in the US, but we do get mini-tornadoes at times, they've been caught on film in Sydney too. About a year ago there was film of a "water spout" at Maroubra Beach (a few beaches south of Bondi Beach) hitting an apartment block and de-roofing it. Some of our bad storms that we get here that have done damage, have been claimed at times to be from a small tornado as part of the storm cell. Further inland we get "dust devils" or "willy willies" which are like smaller tornadoes. But population is more sparse, so there is less damage. A lot of our weather tends to be writ large, so tornadoes could happen but get missed. What we do get here in the tornado family tends to be smaller and more short-lived, and have fewer eye-witnesses. The Maroubra one was an exception. </p><p>Other weather systems - we get cyclones further north (not in Sydney) which you would call hurricanes and which in other parts of Asia are called typhoons. I think our cyclones can be bigger as a rule than the ones you get in the US but it's difficult to assess because the scaling system is different for different ocean systems. </p><p></p><p>The flooding has been since well before Christmas and the periods of rain are continuing. Some river systems are still flooded but most towns are doing OK and people returning home. Some farmers have lost everything; others have lucked out, with the right sort of crop being drenched at just the right time. The east coast river systems all enter into one huge system called the Murray-Darling. So eventually rainfall in north Queensland, if it's far enough inland, can flow right down to South Australia. Very occasionally the centre of Australia floods, and the dry salt lakes become huge inland seas. That is happening more often. In Alice Springs every year they have the Todd River regatta - but the river is always dry, so the regatta is made up of home-made boats which are just frames that people stand in and hold up around themselves, with their legs poking through. Teams carry their boats and physically run along the dry river bed racing one another. I think it's the only regatta in the world that gets cancelled if there's water in the river!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 398660, member: 1991"] Hi Fran. We still have the decorations up. mother in law will probably take them down on 6 January. About tornadoes in Australia - we don't seem to get the really big bad ones like you get in the US, but we do get mini-tornadoes at times, they've been caught on film in Sydney too. About a year ago there was film of a "water spout" at Maroubra Beach (a few beaches south of Bondi Beach) hitting an apartment block and de-roofing it. Some of our bad storms that we get here that have done damage, have been claimed at times to be from a small tornado as part of the storm cell. Further inland we get "dust devils" or "willy willies" which are like smaller tornadoes. But population is more sparse, so there is less damage. A lot of our weather tends to be writ large, so tornadoes could happen but get missed. What we do get here in the tornado family tends to be smaller and more short-lived, and have fewer eye-witnesses. The Maroubra one was an exception. Other weather systems - we get cyclones further north (not in Sydney) which you would call hurricanes and which in other parts of Asia are called typhoons. I think our cyclones can be bigger as a rule than the ones you get in the US but it's difficult to assess because the scaling system is different for different ocean systems. The flooding has been since well before Christmas and the periods of rain are continuing. Some river systems are still flooded but most towns are doing OK and people returning home. Some farmers have lost everything; others have lucked out, with the right sort of crop being drenched at just the right time. The east coast river systems all enter into one huge system called the Murray-Darling. So eventually rainfall in north Queensland, if it's far enough inland, can flow right down to South Australia. Very occasionally the centre of Australia floods, and the dry salt lakes become huge inland seas. That is happening more often. In Alice Springs every year they have the Todd River regatta - but the river is always dry, so the regatta is made up of home-made boats which are just frames that people stand in and hold up around themselves, with their legs poking through. Teams carry their boats and physically run along the dry river bed racing one another. I think it's the only regatta in the world that gets cancelled if there's water in the river! Marg [/QUOTE]
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