I thought Australia was the same size as the Isle of Wight.
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Don’t worry next season’s crop will probably be a record one says Bruce.
That won’t affect the native Australian tribe called the Watusee tribe.
They are used to jumping up above tall grasses and yelling out “what do you see”
Have to be very careful going anywhere near them as if caught you will be hung up by the billabongs, and that can be very painful
I would love to go to Australia for a holiday and be on the other side of the world. Only one problem and that is learning to walk upside down on your hands.
Of course we all know Australians some of whom have funny ideas. Like the Australian who decided to have sex with a kangaroo. When asked what it was like he said it was ok for the first 10 yards.
In Australia they had a waltzing Matilda, Here in the UK we had Lady Godiva riding naked on a white horse. I know which I would rather have seen 
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My back garden is the same size as the Isle of Wight.
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One meteorologist said some areas saw more than 600mm (24") of rain over the last 24 hours, with 500mm (20") more expected. (1) Australian weather forecasters said that water levels on Sunday could exceed records set in the 1970s.
Queensland State Premier Steven Miles said the situation was “very serious and it could get worse”, adding that around 10,500 people had no power.
According to the Cairns Local Disaster management Group, homes, buildings, roads and bridges have been inundated. Flood warnings have been issued in several areas.
Police say there have been “multiple” evacuations and rescues, and five emergency centres have been opened.
Eastern Australia has been hit by frequent flooding in recent years and the country is now enduring an El Nino weather event, which is typically associated with extreme events such as wild fires and cyclones.
(1) Blimey … Nearly 4 FEET of rain … 
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And the crocs!
Ill informed nonsense - Port Douglas had 2 metres of rain in 5 days. Cyclone Jasper just went through, cyclones tend to drop a lot of rain, nothing to do with climate change.
It’s just weather for god’s sake!
yep we love it brings us all together helping each other learning to drive river crafts ; fight off crocs and sit on our roofs in the evening sunsets - beaut mate!!
Yeah! Yeah! We all got problems…
Nine people, including a child, are trapped on the roof of a health clinic in the remote north Queensland community of Wujal Wujal, which has been cut off by rising floodwaters caused by ex- Tropical Cyclone Jasper.
An unknown number of residents remain trapped on roofs, in trees and other high ground.
Some areas of far north Queensland have exceeded 120-year-old flood records, with reports of hundreds of people seeking assistance from authorities.
Flooding at many places across the far north is expected to break records. At Daintree Village, the Daintree River was more than 2m higher than the previous 118-year-old flood record, set in 2019.
The Cairns airport is closed – images show planes left on the tarmac underwater - and all roads out of the city are now cut off.
Laura Boekel of the Bureau of Meteorology said rivers and creeks were responding rapidly to further rainfall and there was a “very high likelihood” conditions will not ease until Tuesday afternoon.
Additional government and non-government personnel were expected to arrive in the area on Monday to assist.
Seemingly, the situation will get worse before it gets better … 
Nothing new there then?
New records.
Not really, records are made to be broken
Good for Australia … 
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Hot off the press
Queensland floods: Airport submerged and crocodiles seen after record rain (with video)
Images from the region show planes submerged at Cairns airport, a crocodile seen in the middle of a town, and people fleeing homes in boats.
Getting back to climate change. We might get more Pink Lakes, won’t that be nice?
Meanwhile in the Pilliga in north west NSW a massive out of control bushfire is creating its own weather. Thunder and lightning overnight.
Back in Wujal Wujal…
Perhaps Australia’s climate never was suitable for human habitation, and the weather and climate have gone through a period of benign human friendly weather for the last few hundred years (which is a blink in the eye compared to the existence of the planet) with just the odd peak of extreme events when ever sunspot activity is high (as it is now) or it’s an ‘El Nino’ period.
Humans have not survived on earth because the climate is supposed to be human friendly, it’s because humans are so adaptable…
Yesterday Sydney was blanketed in smoke from the Duck Creek Pilliga fire 400km away, the southerly change in the evening blew it all away.
Last night rain fell on the fire ground reducing the threat level from “Emergency” to “Advice” level. and enabling it to be got under control overnight.
Rain over NSW was widespread and included large hail, where I live has received 54mm so far and it is still raining. Temperatures today are predicted to be 10° below yesterday’s, the heatwave is over for now.