Australia's Drought
Sad children are taken out of school because of the drought.
Australia's devastating drought has forced a mother to pull her children out of school in a desperate bid to save the family farm. 'It's got to be done,' Jess Taylor (left) told Daily Mail Australia from her parched property at Coonabarabran, 500km north-west of Sydney. Ms Taylor, 36, and husband Robert, 35, have sold three-quarters of their cattle and said they will be forced to sell more as the relentless dry spell takes hold of NSW. Their four-year-old son Charlie (pictured left) drives a Ute on the farm to feed dwindling livestock. The mother-of-four said her two eldest children, Heidi (bottom right), seven, and Harry (top and bottom right), six are forced to skip classes, but the 'bush school' is understanding because all the students are in the same situation
"We certainly don't have those long-term drought conditions in New South Wales in the way that we had in the 1900s or the 1940s or 2000s," Dr Trewin said.
"1902 was a very bad year in its own right, but it actually came at the end of a prolonged period of dry weather which spanned seven to eight years.
"We've had nothing like that recently because 2016 was a really wet year for just about all of the regions."
However, Dr Trewin said parts of inland Queensland were experiencing long-term rainfall deficits.
have had rain forcast for the next couple of days, hope the bureau are right for once,