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<pre>Can anyone help me with a set of monthly rainfall figures which are relevant
for the olive growing areas of Spain. Would anyone care to suggest the
correlation of months to SE Qld, is it +6 months?

Dan
SE Qld
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<pre>Dan ...

You can easily access quite a bit of climatic data for a number of Spanish
regions on the Olives Australia website at www.oliveaustralia.aust.com
Click on the 'World Olive Climates' link.

On the same site, you can also do comparisons with various SE Qld towns and
many other olive growing region of Australia with the climates of olive
growing regions of Italy, Greece, Argentina, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and
the US.

In general (very generally!), you can simply change the northern hemisphere
dates by six months to get southern hemisphere dates (eg northern January
becomes southern July etc). However, remember that Argentina is on the
belly-side of the world with us and that the climatic data varies greatly
from areas such as Tuscany which are nothing like SE Qld and NNSW to some
areas in northern Africa and Argentina which are more similar.

I hope it helps.

Kind regards,
Julian Archer
Olives Australia

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correlation of months to SE Qld, is it +6 months?

Dan
SE Qld



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<pre>Dear Dan,

an excellent website for local climate data is:

http://www.worldclimate.com/climate/

The correlation of course is +/- 6 months.

Greetings,

Nikolaus
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correlation of months to SE Qld, is it +6 months?




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<pre>Nikolaus wrote:

> ----------------snip--------------
> The correlation of course is +/- 6 months.

Not necessarily, there are differences according to your position
relative to the equator, as well as the North/South thing.

There are also regional differences as between localities closer to (or
even on) the dividing range as opposed to those further out on the plains.

If only the conversion were as simple as add 6 months!!!

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> Greetings,
>
> Nikolaus
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> correlation of months to SE Qld, is it +6 months?
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<pre>on 2/4/01 8:46 PM, John Attwood at johnat@oxleyolives.au2.com wrote:

>
>> ----------------snip--------------
>> The correlation of course is +/- 6 months.
>
> Not necessarily, there are differences according to your position
> relative to the equator, as well as the North/South thing.
>
> There are also regional differences as between localities closer to (or
> even on) the dividing range as opposed to those further out on the plains.
>
> If only the conversion were as simple as add 6 months!!!

In some respects, + or - 6 months is exactly right. In terms of day length -
and therefore total sunshine potential (insolation) - at any given latitude
the North/South conversion is exactly six months. For example, my property,
at 43.5 South is equivalent in day length/insolation terms to Santander (NW
Spain), Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence and Greve-in-Chianti. Sunning myself on
the balcony of the Contessa's house in Vertine in mid August, admiring her
artworks and the view towards Radda-in-Chianti, is exactly equivalent to
sunning myself in the front garden in February down here (minus the artworks
and Chianti).

Climate, of course, is another matter. All of the above locations differ in
some important respects to "my" climate. My own best guess is that my area
will be fairly similar to Liguria - and I'm trying to encourage my local
nursery to get some taggiasca.

Queensland is a different kettle of tropical fish altogether...

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