Weather News – ‘Everything is changed’: How consistent rain delivered $65.9 billion reasons to smile

‘Everything is changed’: How consistent rain delivered $65.9 billion reasons to smile

Anthony Sharwood,

Thursday March 4, 2021 – 13:28 EDT

Moree Farmer Oscar Pearse is relentlessly chirpy and upbeat in conversation, and with good reason.

After three years of significantly-below-average rainfall, consistent rainfall in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 has completely changed the outlook on his farm on the black soil plains of northern New South Wales – not to mention the mood in the nearby township of Moree (population 7300).

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