Check out the absence of high pressure areas in the centre now!
Why?
The centre has cooled due to the flooding 4 months previously.
The moisture comes from the SW. BUT. the NW winds push this rain rich front towards the SE and East.
That is what is happening now. Charleville, Broken Hill, Wilcannia have all had rain.
All because the center of this continent has cooled.
And, because of positive feedback, it will continue.
For a while.
Check out the isobaric charts today1
The high is in the Bight while the low is in the center.
Perfect conditions for this Antartic SW front to penetrate in to center and then to be eventually pushed SE. But, not before raining on Central Australia.
This moisture laden front which has just hit us (speaking from a Victorian perspective), after having watered the center, must have had at least 200+ cu km of water in its initial clouds. It forged north and then turned east and south east.
It could not have done that without the center being cooler.
As I predicted earlier, the drought in western NSW and Victoria and western Qld will be broken.
There will be NO bushfire catastrophes in 2010 here in Victoria.
O, if there still people out there who care about the Murray -Darling, what do you think about the Clarence diversion?
But, here and now, while it is raining, I urge you all out there to look at the isobaric chart of the center and see that benign low pressure.
Which could become a permanent feature if we had a Great tAustralian Sea!

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We have a railway from Adelaide to Darwin, if we built a 10'(foot) pipeline beside it, for about $10 a metre more than the railway cost to build, from SA to NT We could've supplied SA with fresh tropical water... forever. DUH!!!! from Katherine!!! And everywhere in between. Talk about miss an opportunity to green Australia! So SAD!!!

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