The last time Fasullo thinks this may have happened was 1973 and 1974, based on an examination of
Australian rainfall records.
Not exact matches
The article, «Extreme
rainfall activity in the
Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite
record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.
An example is the 20 to 40 years regime changes in
Australian rainfall that has physical evidence in stream form and in flood
records.
R, van Ommen, T.D., Curran, M. A. J., Plummer, C. T. and Moy, AD, 2012, A Millennial Proxy
Record of ENSO and Eastern
Australian Rainfall from the Law Dome Ice Core, East Antarctica, Journal of Climate, 26, (3) pp. 710 — 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00003.1
Tessa R. Vance, Tas D. van Ommen, Mark A. J. Curran, Chris T. Plummer, and Andrew D. Moy, 2013, A Millennial Proxy
Record of ENSO and Eastern
Australian Rainfall from the Law Dome Ice Core, East Antarctica, Journal of Climate 2013 26:3, 710 - 725, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00003.1, AMS
For example, at several
Australian weather stations studied in detail with statistics, recorder local
rainfall correlates with
recorded temperatures quite significantly.