My best Wishes and Prayers to our Friends in OZ

[PBO]

La Nina is well & truly under way!

Australia is a country of extremes. We've suffered through a decade of drought (El Nino) & now the opposite. Interestingly the floods are all part of an approximate 20yr cycle that happens...all the flood water from what is essentially two back to back floods will travel S/W all the way to Lake Eyre in South Australia. This process is all part of the greater ecosystem

That doesn't make living through the floods or the losses that the affected residents will suffer any easier but it is all relatively normal...the upside for all the wet weather is no immediate threat of bushfires - another fundamental element of the Australian ecosystem

Not too many crocs that far South though & the ones you need to worry about (saltwater crocs) hate freshwater anyway