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Sieve-Boy t1_ix34lvb wrote
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me!
ProLibertateCH t1_ix3kcwf wrote
Why « new »? That’s how it always was! Eucalyptus fruit only open under the intense heat of a fire. Because without a fire, the old trees grab all the sunlight and new trees cannot grow. But a fire means the place is ready for new trees.
P0RTILLA t1_ix3e1r5 wrote
You forgot the episode with the mice.
Frank9567 t1_ix5qnor wrote
And the increase in snake numbers munching on that delicious mouse diet...then being very hungry when the mice are gone...
marketrent OP t1_ix2vjv6 wrote
November 18, 2022.
Excerpt:
>After an extremely wet October, southeast Australia continued to see heavy rainfall in November 2022. With soils already saturated and dams full, the latest storms have added to ongoing flooding across New South Wales and Victoria.
>Widespread flooding is visible in this false-color image (right) acquired on November 18, 2022, with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.
>Water appears light to dark blue. Vegetation is green and bare land is brown. For comparison, the MODIS image from the Aqua satellite (left) shows the same area on June 28, 2022, prior to the excessive rainfall.
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>Water that seeps deep into the soil can influence groundwater levels for months. The map above depicts shallow groundwater storage in Australia from November 11–14, 2022, as measured by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites.
>The colors depict the wetness percentile; that is, how the levels of groundwater compare to long-term records (1948–2012). Blue areas have more abundant water than usual, and orange and red areas have less.
>The extent to which such rainfall affects the groundwater level varies by location and depends on a range of factors such as soil type, aquifer depth, and vegetation. Time is also a factor, as rainfall accumulations from months past can influence current groundwater levels.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and GRACE data from the National Drought Mitigation Center. Story by Kathryn Hansen.
P0RTILLA t1_ix3e06y wrote
Didn’t this cause the mouse population explosion a few years ago?
Justme100001 t1_ix30gd8 wrote
The 2 new seasons in Australia: burning and flooding...