Drought
Sydney is occasionally prone to drought as Sydney’s climate appears to be becoming drier. The city has had fewer rain days in recent years than shown in the long-term climate table above. The years 2009 and 2010 had dry conditions, according to Bureau of Meteorology. In 2011, Sydney had the driest February in 30 years with only 18mm of rain falling, which is well below than the average 118mm. Some of the western suburbs recorded the lowest total February rainfall on record.
Many areas of the city bordering bushland have experienced bushfires, notably in 1994 and 2001–02 — these tend to occur during the spring and summer.
Read more about this topic: Climate Of Sydney
Famous quotes containing the word drought:
“As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)