BOM forecasts are about as accurate as modern technology allows. Those complaining about forecast accuracy just have no idea about the complexity of weather and the computational power needed to give us an expectation of the weather ahead. Sadly, many public figures are scientifically illiterate, and for the tourism people to push for fake forecasts is absurd. There is a difference, probably set down in international standards, between mostly sunny, and the chance of a shower. This is teetering toward Trump-like science denial: the next thing will be wanting the BOM to curtail forecasts altogether. Because of our abysmal failure to contain climate change, extremes will increase, and there unfortunately will be more unattractive news on the weather front. 

I live in Cairns and every year around October - November the weather forcacacter predict 5-6 Cyclone are going to hit and even now when there is alow 100 k of the coast its maybe a cyclone if forming. Of course it is giong to turn people from coming

PS the last cyclone was 2000

No problem.

Tim Flannery assured us there would be very little rain anymore, just before the floods occurred...lol, and even the dams wouldn't fill up.   That was a few years ago now.   He must have done a rain dance.

Darcie, when did this person claim no more rain, what were his justifying figues? what, None?

when did the floods occur? what year?

Are the dams full now?

I suspect you are doing a fact dance, shame on you.

By using unsubstantiated Assertions, unrelated conclusions with vagueness, refusal to prove, and mockery of others, you are sounding like a climate denier.

God bless all who sail therein, nobody else will as our climate measurably fails, History will curse all of that ilke.

Darcie, because your original statements were so vague and not dated, not substantiated, your new statements have no meaning, - btw, it is against Internet etiquette to provide a link as an answer, - as a reference to an answer, yes, but you have to state the answer exactly yourself, eg. "I am the new world emperor, you must give me one million dollars right now"  see "link".

If you are the New world empoer, kindly destroy me right now as I refuse to bow to such bullshit.

what, 20 mins have passed and I am still here? sorry I could not be bothered to follow your no doubt stupid link as you could not summarise it your self. f/0ff

Too many deletions YLC, people will  notice.

TIM Flannery has just been hired by the Gillard Governmentas a Global Warming Activist

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Tim Flannery, the controversial environmentalist owns a large, low-lying waterfront home on the Hawkesbury River, a remote getaway which only has water access.

The Coba Point home is jointly owned by Professor Flannery and his wife Alexandra Szalay, who bought it in 2003-- a buy seemingly at odds with his gloomy predictions. The home remains mortgaged to the ANZ bank.

According to his Coba Point neighbours, Professor Flannery's home is the largest property on the remote point and is a only few steps from the water.

"Yes, it is waterfront and his would be one of the biggest on the point and his house is probably set back about four or five metres from the water," neighbour David told 2GB's Ray Hadley yesterday.

"All of the properties are waterfront."

The neighbour said Professor Flannery runs a two-stroke outboard motor boat.

The man who leads the Gillard government's Climate Change Commission also owns a one-third share in a property at Berowra Heights.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/prof-tim-flannerys-waterside-getaway/news-story/f78bdfc72ee5a1488116215e2b26eb88?sv=56fbbb1f36ebdda9d6d065322f799093

Lovely spot but sure is going against his predictions

SO, PLAN B you have believed Dobbo who says any link must be followed, even though you can't summarise the argument, - what did his last slave die of? - stupidity from overwork?

No, you don't pay me, you can not insist that I follow your links because you have to convince me, and everyone else, that your argument is correct, with spades. Otherwise bye bye, you are consigned to the universe of meaningless assertions, along with the Oz liberal party, the Amercan Republican Party and dubious fuckwits wherever.

Meanwhile regarding the topic: Queensland trying to ban rain from forecasts

Unfortunately the QTIC campaign seems to be working rather too well and the rain has forsaken my place in SEQ, presumably to move to friendlier states.

Lawn is looking dead as a doornail.

Same here RnR haven't had rain for many months

No need to follow the old Parilamentairains, look at what is Happening,

Wind Turbines are however, imho a different issue, they directly develop the Australian economy, as does a major Dam or Highway, so personal issues need to take a slightly lower tack.

To discuss the efficiency of wind turbines is not directly answering the article, but I think it is indirectly very important, - particularly because wind turbines are a major player and have recently increased their effectiveness,- in the last three years, prices of wind turbines have come down 36%, - dollars per megawatt of capacity installed, but that is not even half the story, wind turbines are much larger, 8 megawatts and bigger, the greater size has two big results, - in earlier days, wind turbines had say a 60 metre tower, 50 metre blades, now they are 120/160/240 metre towers, -  each 1 metre in height increases the power 1%, compounded; Blades are 80 metres long, +,   each 10% increase in swept area doubles the power, any of you putting in pipe for irrigation will have come across those figures, a 2 megawatt turbine produces much more than 2 of 1 megawatt turbines, an 8 megawatt wind turbine produces more than 4 times a 4 megawatt turbine, these developments have effectively changed the whole game, as anybody watching the collapse of the coal industry in America and the UK will know, and storage is developing at an amazing rate. 

 Australia is totally blessed with Wind and Solar, ( also Tide, Wave and Geothermal Power, ) we really do have, with Wind Power, the opportunity to green our deserts, which Coal never provided, and now we really need it, - think of the very real statistics showing a definite ‘uptick’ in suicides every strong drought, in the Rural community, consider that even the AEMC, the Australian Electricity Regulator, grudgingly admits that Solar and Wind will lower electricity prices, so those Beautiful Graceful machines, their blades Wings of Birds, slowly revolving on your horizon, are helping all of us, and their size needs an explanation, the bigger they are, the lower the tip speed needs to be or it would exceed the speed of sound, so the slower they rotate.

As for low frequency vibration, Waves are one source, but people love living on the beach, whales speak in it, and the huge rocks under the earth grinding against each other produce it all the time and always have, who worries?  - just propaganda by the Coal lobbies!

Perhaps most significant, Wind Turbines produce very little of that low frequency noise, but Air Conditioners produce Heaps (CSIRO South Australia report).

Both of you need to do some research, Wind Turbines are the cheapest form of electricity, no harm to the environment, turn very slowly so birds easily fly around them, all parts recyclable, who has been telling you lies?

I look at them, graceful, gentle, no noise, no fuss, just generating the electricity we all need, then I look at a coal mine/power station, - looks like a nuclear bomb, all is devastation, black dust, noise, people getting sick, ugly ugly ugly.

Faugh!