Trend in Australia annual rainfall 1960-2009 (mm per decade): cities create localised droughts

First 11 of 11 paragraphs shown The location of rainfall had changed.
- While total rainfall on the Australian continent has been relatively stable;
- geographic distribution of rainfall had changed significantly over the past 50 years.
- Rainfall decreased in south-west and south-east Australia, including all the major population centres, during the same period.
Much of Australia will be drier in coming decades: In Australia compared to the period 1981-2000, decreases in rainfall are likely in the decades to come in:
- southern areas of Australia during winter, in southern and eastern areas during spring, and
- in south-west Western Australia during autumn.
An increase in the number of dry days is expected across the country, but it is likely that there will be an increase in intense rainfall events in many area

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