If you found it hard to get in much observing time last year on the East Coast,
then it may be little consolation that in its
Annual Australian Climate Statement for
2010 issued today, the Bureau of Meteorology announced that the 2010 La Niña
event was Australia’s third-wettest year on record.
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Data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology show that the Australian mean rainfall total for 2010 was 690 mm, well above the long-term average of 465 mm. As a result, 2010 was Australia’s wettest year since 2000 and the third-wettest year on record (records commence in 1900). The only month to record a national monthly total below the long term average during 2010 was June. This means that 11 months of the year experienced above average rainfall, an occurrence observed only once previously, in 1973.
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Based on preliminary numbers, 2010 was the wettest year on record for Queensland.
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In contrast to the rest of the continent, the southwest of Western Australia experienced a very dry year, continuing the long drying trend which extends back to the late 1960s. For the southwest region as a whole, the 2010 rainfall total was a record low 392 mm, well below the previous low of 439 mm in 1940. Rainfall in the cropping season (April to October) in southwest Western Australia also set a record with just 310 mm falling; the previous low was 348 mm in 1914.
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Big wet results in coolest year since 2001 but nonetheless the warmest decade on record
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The past year has been very warm globally, though it remains too early to determine if the year will be the warmest or second warmest on record.
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Please note that heavy rainfall over the Christmas-New Year period, with severe flooding in Queensland, has affected the availability of rainfall data for northeast Australia. As these data are processed in the next few months the final rainfall figures are expected to change.
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Full report here -
http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/...20110105.shtml
ABC News story here -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...05/3106683.htm