Australia - The Land Down Under

[Condobloke]

The Red Centre just got a whole lot more colourful after midweek deluge

In a week when we could all use a little bright news, this rainbow poking out behind Uluru ought to do the trick. The rainbow was captured by Meegan Irene, who was visiting Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Image: The red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet centre. Source...

www.weatherzone.com.au

 

[Condobloke]

How a lifelong passion for animals led Tracy to her AgVenture - AustralianFarmers

With a childhood spent between Switzerland and Perth, Tracy Sullivan is in no way a traditional cattleman’s daughter.

farmers.org.au

 

[Brickwizard]

What led up to Cleo being found....

Cleo Smith would look 'terrified', says mother of 4yo who disappeared a week ago

One week ago, at a remote campsite on the West Australian coast, a mother woke up to find her four-year-old daughter missing. Despite one of the state's largest-ever search operations, Cleo Smith is yet to be found. This is how the search unfolded.

www.abc.net.au

this hit the UK news tonight, thankfully the little one didn't look like she has suffered any bad experiences that so often happen

 

[Condobloke]

How dung beetles, a tiny molecule and a giant extension cord could help solve our climate mess

Here's how Australia could become a renewable superpower by 2030. Sounds too good to be true? You tell us.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Condobloke]

White Cliffs. 100 people.

Outback NSW, Australia . Known for sporadic rainfall.....usually none

More sheep than people. One station has 4000 sheep spread over 77000 acres.

One of the hottest places in Australia. Known for Opals and houses dug out of the ground to escape the heat

Outback station's heaviest rain in 10 years means 4000 sheep can chomp grass all summer

After heavy midweek rain in and around the town of White Cliffs in far western NSW, it's pretty much impossible to drive into town from local properties and stations right now, but locals are so thrilled with the rain, it's a small price to pay. The tiny map speck of 100 people, best known for...

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The tears of joy would be so real, the smiles would be a foot wide.

If follow up rain is received (it is predicted) the smiles and tears of joy will transform to a 'glow'

 

[Condobloke]

Aurora lights up Australia's southern skies

Image: Northern TAS. Source: @shotswithjohnny / Instagram

A geomagnetic storm caused by charged particles emitted from the sun produced a dazzling display of colours in both the northern and southern hemispheres during the last 24 hours.


Auroral displays are caused when charged particles emitted by the sun rush towards Earth and interact with gases in our atmosphere. This interaction can cause curtains of vivid lights in the night sky across high latitudes in both hemispheres.


Australia is usually too far north to see the Aurora when a weak event occurs. However, Thursday night's Aurora was strong enough to be seen from parts of Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

image: South Arm, TAS. Source: @benjstrike / Instagram

 

[Condobloke]

The Brookes family did things the old-fashioned way right to the end

When the Brookes family decided to sell their Port Fairy hardware store of 45 years, they refused countless lucrative offers until they found a buyer who would keep the 100-year-old business alive.

www.abc.net.au

Only, in Australia.


The booming seaside town that refused to give up its local hardware store



In the small tourist town of Port Fairy, property regularly sells for millions, but when the owners of the local hardware store decided to retire and sell up, they refused offers from developers until they found a buyer who would keep the 100-year-old business alive.

 

[Condobloke]

There's a 'roo on your roof......

Mystery surrounds kangaroo that got stuck on a hot tin roof in Mount Isa

Firefighters in the north-west Queensland town say they are used to rescuing cats, dogs and birds, but finding a kangaroo on the roof on a house is a first.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Condobloke]

Melbourne woman mauled by a kangaroo in her backyard

www.9news.com.au

 

[Condobloke]

Surely this guy deserves to stay in Australia

Community rallies behind prison escapee facing deportation

9now.nine.com.au

 

[Condobloke]

Flood while you Dine anyone ?

Melbourne diners not even slightly concerned by flash flood outside

They take their café and restaurant culture seriously in Melbourne, more so than ever after being locked out of the city's world-renowned eateries for so long. So when a brief but extremely heavy downpour struck the city's east as severe storms moved through on Saturday, nothing – as in...

www.weatherzone.com.au

 

[Condobloke]

Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink....(maybe some beer might flow ?....)

Wet week for most of Australia, with flooding likely

Substantial rain will fall over part of every Australian state and territory this week, with flooding and severe thunderstorms likely in several states. A large mass of humid air will interact with two transient low pressure system and several low pressure troughs to trigger a nation-wide...

www.weatherzone.com.au

 

[Condobloke]

Tony died just days after his first exhibition opened, but he left a legacy of laughter

Tasmanian sculptor Tony Woodward taught art to hundreds and brought art to the lives of thousands. Now he lives on through his colourful and funny public artworks.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Condobloke]

Only in Australia.....Sydney

 

[Condobloke]

Storms stretching 2,500 kilometres across NT and QLD

A massive line of thunderstorms has developed between the NT's Top End and southeast QLD this afternoon, stretching 2,500 km across northern and eastern Australia. The storms are forming along a low pressure trough that is interacting with a mass of very humid air in an unstable atmosphere...

www.weatherzone.com.au

 

[Condobloke]

This is how much rain fell in Australia this week

This graphic says it all: as predicted earlier this week, it rained across virtually the whole of Australia over the last seven days. And not just light rain, but significant totals in many areas, as you can see on the map below. Image: The Red Centre was the Blue Centre this week...

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[Condobloke]

Its raining on the rock !...Ayers rock aka Uluru...

Outback deluge transforms Red Centre

Heavy rain has brought outback rivers to life in central Australia this week, with satellite images revealing just how much the landscape has been transformed by the influx of water. A large mass of rain-bearing clouds being triggered by a developing low pressure system and fuelled by tropical...

www.weatherzone.com.au

READ the below then look at the green images.

Images Below: False-colour satellite images of the Alice Springs region, captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite on November 4th (top) and November 11th (bottom). Source: Sentinel Hub, Sinergise Ltd.


The images above use artificial colours to enhance the features detected by the satellite. Light green colours show land and dark blue is water.


With the past week's drenching, Alice Springs has now collected 196.2mm (8") !! of rain so far this month, making this its wettest calendar month since January 2001.....YES, this is a twenty year time span

For the outback of Australia, this is a HUGE deal.

 

[Condobloke]

Rainng on the "rock'...it is SUCH an unusual event, it was immortalised in song by Aussie singer John Williamson

 

[Condobloke]

'I think they're going to sit it out': Family bogged in desert likely to be there all weekend

Rescue authorities are working on a plan to retrieve a family from Perth who are trapped in outback South Australia because of torrential downpours.

www.abc.net.au

Open the link and take a gecko at the pics...including the location of these people.

Thank God they took an emergency beacon with them.

It would have saved them and others a great deal of hassle and drama if they had also paid attention to the Weather Forecasts

 

[Condobloke]

Rescue planned for family stranded in bogged campervan in Simpson Desert after heavy rain​

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/rescue-planned-for-family-stranded-in-bogged-campervan-in-simpson-desert-after-heavy-rain/535442