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Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: Martin4Jay on April 04, 2015, 04:02:37 AM
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This is so horendes hope your able to view it
http://tinyurl.com/lm2ro7f
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It wasn't as wet further north at Antofagasta, but there they still got 24.4mm rain in 24 hours, 14 times the annual average of 1.7mm. The small village of Quillagua, the world's driest town, only got 4mm - but 50 years of records prior and just 3 rain events produced only 4mm! Last precip. in Quillagua was about 1992. So its 50-year annual mean increases from 0.08mm to 0.16mm.
Calama inland from Antofagasta had 17mm, 3 times its annual average of 5.7mm. Further north still in Iquique and Arica nothing happened.
The real irony is that much of Chile is in a long-running drought akin to the Californian one.
Chile Says Drought Permanent, Lays Out Water Plan (http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-chile-says-drought-is-permanent-as-it-lays-out-water-plan/2693072.html)
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This is so horendes hope your able to view it
http://tinyurl.com/lm2ro7f
It wasn't as wet further north at Antofagasta, but there they still got 24.4mm rain in 24 hours, 14 times the annual average of 1.7mm. The small village of Quillagua, the world's driest town, only got 4mm - but 50 years of records prior and just 3 rain events produced only 4mm! Last precip. in Quillagua was about 1992. So its 50-year annual mean increases from 0.08mm to 0.16mm.
Calama inland from Antofagasta had 17mm, 3 times its annual average of 5.7mm. Further north still in Iquique and Arica nothing happened.
The real irony is that much of Chile is in a long-running drought akin to the Californian one.
Chile Says Drought Permanent, Lays Out Water Plan (http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-chile-says-drought-is-permanent-as-it-lays-out-water-plan/2693072.html)
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Very interesting reading Rwood Thanks
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As a follow up... looking at the year to date rainfalls, it has been a relatively "wet" year in the Atacama ... Arica 1.8mm (ann avge 0.5), Iquique 4.4 mm (0.6), Calama 17.1mm (5.7), Antofagasta 38.6mm (!) (1.7)