[Pil-pc-oceania] We can't predict when this drought will end: Bur. Meteorology
Deb Guildner
bocor at bigbutton.com.au
Fri Sep 7 08:11:33 EST 2007
Courtesy of Farmonline:
http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=45179
Breaking Rural News : AGRIBUSINESS AND GENERAL
Big dry set to roll on in Vic
By RACHEL KLEINMAN - Australia
Thursday, 6 September 2007
There is no end in sight to the drought and Victorian farmers face a grim summer, experts predict.
High hopes for rains from the La Nina weather pattern were fading fast, Bureau of Meteorology climate centre chief, Michael Coughlan told a Melbourne media conference today.
"Is this drought over? Certainly not - we can't predict when this drought will end," Dr Coughlan said.
And record high temperatures so far this year across most of Victoria and southern Australia had added to the problem, increasing evaporation from water stores.
Irrigators on the Murray system face an uncertain future.
Murray Darling Basin Commission chief executive, Wendy Craik, said combined record low water stores and inflows would hit hard this year.
"The situation is grim. Storages are already 1700 billion litres below what they were this time last year," Dr Craik said.
SOURCE: The Age, Melbourne, a Fairfax publication.
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