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Family honoured for 100 years of service to Bureau of Meteorology say past 10 years one of the driest
A Queensland family honoured for 100 years of service to the Bureau of Meteorology as rain observers say the past 10 years have been the driest on record.
Key points:
- Farmers in the Southern Downs are dealing with declining winter rainfall
- Gerald Walsh says things do not look like they are going to get any easier
- Climate scientist Chelsea Jarvis says that multi-year droughts “need to be considered a regular thing”
Overlooking the old family farmhouse on Gerard Walsh’s farm is a hill covered in hundreds of dead ironbarks.
“Two years ago, they would have all been alive and flourishing. Basically every tree has died,” Mr Walsh said.
Across all of 2019, his property at Greymare in southern Queensland recorded just 144 millimetres of rain — the…
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