Rain continues to waterlog people living on two continents.
Even though rains are slacking off in Australia, the water from record breaking rain storms continues to head south, causing a great deal of damage. Kerang in the southeast of Victoria exprienced a "wall of water" from the breaking of a levy there. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41156119/ns/weather
The Philippines also remains in the news as flash floods carry away more people. Notice the highlighted parts of this article (emphasis mine): "Flash floods caused by unusually heavy rainfall..." - And again here, "Above-average rainfall during what is supposed to be the middle of the dry season has drenched about 25 out of the archipelago's 80 provinces, affecting about 1.6 million people." See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41155966/ns/weather/
Again, I want to point out that rain in these areas isn't unusual. However, the amounts and the times it's falling is unusual.
Continuing, " He (Graciano Yumul, head of the government weather bureau) said that 33 out of 52 rainfall monitoring stations reported above-normal readings in the Philippines from Jan. 1 to 17. The highest rainfall recorded was on Pagasa, an island occupied by Philippine troops in the disputed Spratly chain, which recorded 16.16 inches compared with the average .38 inches."
Ok. A little more rain might be brushed off as a freak of nature... but 16 inches compared to the normal 1/3 inch!?! And in the normally DRY season! You guys gettin' this? Everywhere we turn these days, record setting, extremely high and irregular weather patterns are occurring. This kind of weather behavior is A+++ reason to believe that something EXTRAordinary is happening on the planet.
Of course, for any Doubting Thomas's out there... we will continue a daily update of freaky weather patterns, both on the Big Blue Ball and in the skies above it.
Let me know what you think!
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