200 Months of Rain

But that's later this week - first we've got to get through an absolutely scorching few last days of spring. Shane Warne was suffering under the South Australian heat, tweeting on Wednesday morning it was already past 30C at 9am. Hobart will get to 33C on Thursday, which will be the hottest day in the Tasmanian capital for two years.

Mr Saunders said the unprecedented heat had been due to a blocking high over New Zealand which could be the result of weak La Nina conditions forming over the Pacific. Last week, the Bureau of Meteorology said it was likely a La Nina weather system would indeed form, but it would not be as strong as previous years.

The forecast is based on the likely outcome of what's expected to be a weather battle royal. Very warm and humid northerly air that has drifted over southeast Australia, bringing the current heat, looks like it will clash with cold air moving north from the Southern Ocean. Between Thursday and next Wednesday, Brisbane could get smashed with more than mm of rain, only slightly below the December average of Umbrellas at the ready Melbourne and Canberra, you could see anything from mm of rain where between mm in the entire month is more usual.

A sodden Sydney and Hobart look like they will receive 50mm in a week, close to the month's average. Even Adelaide's relatively modest prediction of between mm would still be a month's rain in a week. The end of the week could see the biggest rainfalls. It will reach 35C on Thursday with the heavens due to open on Friday with up to 25mm in just one day. Expect a high of 26C as Melbourne heads into the weekend but that will plummet to just 20C on Sunday as the rain continues.

This has been the hottest November in Hobart since records began. Tasmania's hot run continues until Thursday when the mercury will peak at 33C. Friday will then see the mercury drop by 10C to 23C with up to 25mm of rain. Possible rain throughout the weekend with highs of around 17C.

A high of 30C on Thursday dipping only a touch to 29C on Friday with storms a possibility. But it's Saturday that's going to be really wet. Up to 60mm of rain could fall with the dial getting to 23C. Temperatures will then continue to drop further with further rain into next week. Downwind of islands, bands of showers and thunderstorms can develop due to low level wind convergence downwind of the island edges.

Offshore California , this has been noted in the wake of cold fronts. Rainbands within tropical cyclones are curved in orientation. Tropical cyclone rainbands contain showers and thunderstorms that, together with the eyewall and the eye, constitute a hurricane or tropical storm. The extent of rainbands around a tropical cyclone can help determine the cyclone's intensity. The phrase acid rain was first used by Scottish chemist Robert Augus Smith in Sulfuric acid is derived from natural sources such as volcanoes, and wetlands sulfate reducing bacteria ; and anthropogenic sources such as the combustion of fossil fuels, and mining where H 2 S is present.

Nitric acid is produced by natural sources such as lightning, soil bacteria, and natural fires; while also produced anthropogenically by the combustion of fossil fuels and from power plants. In the past 20 years the concentrations of nitric and sulfuric acid has decreased in presence of rainwater, which may be due to the significant increase in ammonium most likely as ammonia from livestock production , which acts as a buffer in acid rain and raises the pH. Specifically, the primary types are A, tropical; B, dry; C, mild mid-latitude; D, cold mid-latitude; and E, polar.

The five primary classifications can be further divided into secondary classifications such as rain forest , monsoon , tropical savanna , humid subtropical , humid continental , oceanic climate , Mediterranean climate , steppe , subarctic climate , tundra , polar ice cap , and desert. They are widespread on Africa , and are also found in India , the northern parts of South America , Malaysia , and Australia. Most summer rainfall occurs during thunderstorms and from occasional tropical cyclones. An oceanic or maritime climate is typically found along the west coasts at the middle latitudes of all the world's continents, bordering cool oceans, as well as southeastern Australia , and is accompanied by plentiful precipitation year-round.

The climate is characterized by hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. Rain is measured in units of length per unit time, typically in millimeters per hour, [91] or in countries where imperial units are more common, inches per hour. The standard way of measuring rainfall or snowfall is the standard rain gauge, which can be found in mm 4-in plastic and mm 8-in metal varieties. Plastic gauges have markings on the inner cylinder down to 0. After the inner cylinder is filled, the amount inside it is discarded, then filled with the remaining rainfall in the outer cylinder until all the fluid in the outer cylinder is gone, adding to the overall total until the outer cylinder is empty.

Any of the above rain gauges can be made at home, with enough know-how. One of the main uses of weather radar is to be able to assess the amount of precipitations fallen over large basins for hydrological purposes. Radar-derived rainfall estimates compliment surface station data which can be used for calibration.

To produce radar accumulations, rain rates over a point are estimated by using the value of reflectivity data at individual grid points. A radar equation is then used, which is,.

Rainfall intensity is classified according to the rate of precipitation, which depends on the considered time: Euphemisms for a heavy or violent rain include gully washer, trash-mover and toad-strangler. The likelihood or probability of an event with a specified intensity and duration, is called the return period or frequency. The Quantitative Precipitation Forecast abbreviated QPF is the expected amount of liquid precipitation accumulated over a specified time period over a specified area.

Terrain is considered in QPFs by use of topography or based upon climatological precipitation patterns from observations with fine detail. The forecasts can be verified through use of rain gauge measurements, weather radar estimates, or a combination of both. Various skill scores can be determined to measure the value of the rainfall forecast.

Precipitation, especially rain, has a dramatic effect on agriculture. All plants need at least some water to survive, therefore rain being the most effective means of watering is important to agriculture. While a regular rain pattern is usually vital to healthy plants , too much or too little rainfall can be harmful, even devastating to crops. Drought can kill crops and increase erosion, [] while overly wet weather can cause harmful fungus growth.

For example, certain cacti require small amounts of water, [] while tropical plants may need up to hundreds of inches of rain per year to survive. In areas with wet and dry seasons, soil nutrients diminish and erosion increases during the wet season. The previous dry season leads to food shortages into the wet season, as the crops have yet to mature. Cultural attitudes towards rain differ across the world. In temperate climates , people tend to be more stressed when the weather is unstable or cloudy, with its impact greater on men than women.

In dry places, such as India , [] or during periods of drought , [] rain lifts people's moods. In Botswana , the Setswana word for rain, pula , is used as the name of the national currency , in recognition of the economic importance of rain in its country, since it has a desert climate. The source of this scent is petrichor , an oil produced by plants, then absorbed by rocks and soil, and later released into the air during rainfall.

Rain holds an important religious significance in many cultures. The northern half of Africa is occupied by the world's most extensive hot, dry region, the Sahara Desert. Some deserts are also occupying much of southern Africa: Across Asia, a large annual rainfall minimum, composed primarily of deserts, stretches from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia west-southwest through western Pakistan Balochistan and Iran into the Arabian Desert in Saudi Arabia.

Most of Australia is semi-arid or desert, [] making it the world's driest inhabited continent. Since rain only falls as liquid, in frozen temperatures, rain cannot fall. As a result, very cold climates see very little rainfall and are often known as polar deserts. A common biome in this area is the tundra which has a short summer thaw and a long frozen winter. Ice caps see no rain at all, making Antarctica the world's driest continent. Rainforests are areas of the world with very high rainfall. Both tropical and temperate rainforests exist.

Tropical rainforests occupy a large band of the planet mostly along the equator. Most temperate rainforests are located on mountainous west coasts between 45 and 55 degrees latitude, but they are often found in other areas. The equatorial region near the Intertropical Convergence Zone ITCZ , or monsoon trough, is the wettest portion of the world's continents.

Annually, the rain belt within the tropics marches northward by August, then moves back southward into the Southern Hemisphere by February and March. Its poleward progression is accelerated by the onset of the summer monsoon which is characterized by the development of lower air pressure a thermal low over the warmest part of Asia. During the fall, winter, and spring , Pacific storm systems bring most of Hawaii and the western United States much of their precipitation.

There is also evidence that global warming is leading to increased precipitation to the eastern portions of North America, while droughts are becoming more frequent in the tropics and subtropics. This amount is more than what falls in many cities in a year's time.

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Rainfalls of diamonds have been suggested to occur on the gas giant planets , Jupiter and Saturn , [] as well as on the ice giant planets , Uranus and Neptune. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Rain disambiguation and Rainy disambiguation.

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