Weather Downunder

Weather Downunder: "10 most read stories

1: Sydney has driest Autumn since 1965 - (2717 reads)
2: Annual Australian Climate Summary 2003 - (2384 reads)
3: Outlook for average tropical cyclone season for North West Australia - (1893 reads)
4: ENSO Wrap-Up - (1890 reads)
5: 2004/2005 Northern Region Tropical Cyclone Season Outlook - (1812 reads)
6: Wet September 2004 over western South Australia - (1673 reads)
7: Sydney experiences hottest October day on record - (1664 reads)
8: Driest September for 27 years in Perth - (1648 reads)
9: Victoria October temperature record broken - (1632 reads)
10: More dry weather in the north - Tasmania - (1629 reads)"

I was reading elsewhere that most countries are amazed at how hard it has become to predict the weather with any sense of assurance. Meteorologists who have previously managed to work out weather patterns are now finding it difficult because the weather seems to be very skittish. They want to know why. Me too! I found this weather downunder site which covers our neck of the woods and it has a wealth of interesting articles, great graphs and statistics and after a bit of a read you feel like we are trying to make sense of it all instead of just being at the mercy of a cyclone which will just change course, or, as in the recent bushfires, winds which suddenly change direction and then put an onerous burden onto the firefighters trying to control the fires.