It’s rough out there at the moment, and it’s about to get rougher…
Tomorrow is so nasty, they are closing all the schools and they’ve only been open since yesterday.
And this on top of 243mm (and still counting) that we’ve had over the last week. There’s quite literally nowhere for all the water to go, and I’m saying that even though we’re right next to a big ocean. In fact, that’s actually where the bloody rain is coming from in the first place.
I’m not attributing this series of cold fronts to climate change (I’ve covered this here and here “recently”), but there’s no doubt that we are likely to experience more extreme weather events over the coming year. I read an interesting paper on the effect that this might have on our tourism industry:
And so we brace for tomorrow and the following week, in which we’re looking at another 150mm.
Need an ark built?
I Noah bloke.