Comments on: On Top, Down Under http://www.pythian.com/blogs/809/on-top-down-under News and views from Pythian DBAs Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: babette http://www.pythian.com/blogs/809/on-top-down-under#comment-158970 babette Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:44:37 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/809/on-top-down-under#comment-158970 La Nino, El Nina, el "Noons"a ....whatever ... I have to come back again next year just to find out what summer in Sydney is really like !! LOL. OMG, time has flown so very quickly. Hopefully we can touch base before I leave, but if not, then you and your family have to visit me in Canada !!! La Nino, El Nina, el “Noons”a ….whatever … I have to come back again next year just to find out what summer in Sydney is really like !! LOL.

OMG, time has flown so very quickly. Hopefully we can touch base before I leave, but if not, then you and your family have to visit me in Canada !!!

]]> By: Noons http://www.pythian.com/blogs/809/on-top-down-under#comment-158955 Noons Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:42:48 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/809/on-top-down-under#comment-158955 Poor Babette, you have been experiencing what we call a "La Nina event"! Rain and drought alternate in Australia in cycles of 7 years, give or take a few months. The drought years are caused by the well known "El Nino" Pacific event, which messes up the East Coast warm current, the main provider of warm, humid air for rain around here. Then every 7 years or so, the whole thing reverses: El Nino goes AWOL and a La Nina event settles in for around a year or so. That causes the whole of the East Coast of Australia to become a tropical wetland, with the climate you have been experiencing. It will be finished soon, the so-called experts predict by around April or May 2008. Then we'll be back to endless sunny and hot summers and normal winters. It's really all to do with whoever designed the Earth - it MUST have been a commitee! - and slapped that huge uninterrupted mass of water called Pacific Ocean on one side of the planet! Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release but for the time being we're stuck with the patches called "events"... Will try to catch up with you before you leave. Poor Babette, you have been experiencing what we call a “La Nina event”!

Rain and drought alternate in Australia in cycles of 7 years, give or take a few months.
The drought years are caused by the well known “El Nino” Pacific event, which messes up the East Coast warm current, the main provider of warm, humid air for rain around here.

Then every 7 years or so, the whole thing reverses: El Nino goes AWOL and a La Nina event settles in for around a year or so. That causes the whole of the East Coast of Australia to become a tropical wetland, with the climate you have been experiencing.

It will be finished soon, the so-called experts predict by around April or May 2008. Then we’ll be back to endless sunny and hot summers and normal winters.

It’s really all to do with whoever designed the Earth - it MUST have been a commitee! - and slapped that huge uninterrupted mass of water called Pacific Ocean on one side of the planet! Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release but for the time being we’re stuck with the patches called “events”…

Will try to catch up with you before you leave.

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