Comments by "Bad Gaming" (@ashdog236) on "Casual Earth" channel.

  1. Yeah I’ve always had a hard time reconciling calling Australia mostly desert, as you say most of Australia’s interior is shrubbery, savanna, even woodlands and wetlands and every 3 years or so the entire outback is flooded into a massive delta, I don’t see that happening across the sahara, gobi and Sonora deserts, they are actual sandy dry deserts, I don’t get it but I’m not a scientist. Also according to Wikipedias country by rainfall map, Australia receives about 170mm less rainfall a year than the USA, so not that much less, I guess the boils down to where the rainfall falls, etc but I feel like Australia’s “desertsness” so to speak is highly exaggerated
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  2. We’re also not taking into account that every couple of years the Indian Ocean dipole enhances rainfall across the Australian continent from west to east, irrigating central Australia and sweeping a cross to the east coast but west of the dividing range, this helps outback towns in are far west NSW, QLD and VIC. Then there the rainfall from south east Asia/ north Australia, Aus doesn’t get all its rainfall from the east coast…
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