For those in the Southeast who might be anxious about the world coming to an end thanks to the drought, perhaps a story in Sunday’s Sydney morning Herald might offer some hope:
As at 9am yesterday, Sydney had received a whopping 172.4 millimetres since the start of February, compared with 4.4 millimetres for the same period last year.[...]
La Niña, the opposite of the drought-causing El Niño, causes extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. On the east coast, that equates to wetter weather.
Sydney’s dams are at 64 per cent of capacity, up 3 per cent in just a week. The water supply was at an all-time low at just 33.9 per cent in February last year. Sydney’s main water supply, Warragamba Dam, is 25 per cent fuller than it was at this time last year, at almost 58 per cent.[...]
Releasing the latest drought figures yesterday, Mr Iemma said large areas of western NSW had moved out of drought for the first time in seven years.