It's not your imagination. We're just over halfway through 2022 and rainfall records are tumbling as the east coast hunkers down for more to come.
Singleton backyards after flooding on July 8.
In a part of the country that's used to getting significant rain, 2022 is on track to be off the charts.That's more than has ever been seen before by this point in the year. More than 44 million kilograms of lettuce — more than a third of the nation's production of the salad staple — are grown in south east and southern Queensland in a year, according to the 2019-20 agricultural census.Dr Ridder says we'll need to think about how we adapt to these kinds of conditions.
"If we have these fundamental climate conditions, it is very likely that we will see a sequence of extreme rainfall events, and if we have these rainfall events, this increases the probability of flooding."Let's return to our map of 184 weather stations. We've chosen to look at these because for all of them, we have at least 100 years’ worth of historic data.
Just south of the city, on the outskirts of the Royal National Park, Darkes Forest has had more than triple its typical rainfall.
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