Over 170mm at Goulburn! That is the best news anyone down there has heard all year. Farm dams are overflowing, the Wollondilly River has burst its banks, and they're back above 25% capacity in their dam.

Best news of all - their water restrictions are being lifted from Level 5 to Level 3. They've been on a 120L per person per day limit for almost ( Read more... )

We cleaned the gutters yesterday, because the weather's brought down almost all the leaves already. Only a handful left up there, and it's not even the end of June! It's definitely been cold for Sydney ( Read more... )

It's still sopping wet in Sydney, and they haven't managed to move the Pasha Bulker up in Newcastle yet ( Read more... )

A clear blue sky ( Read more... )

Bwaha. Column 8 is engaged in an honour crusade at the moment, because a Telly reporter challenged them to find a better possible Robert Ludlum novel title from the NSW road infrastructure than his suggestion “The Calga Interchange”. The best suggestion so far is definitely “The Meccano Set” which, yes, isn’t the official designation of any ( Read more... )

It's wet and cold, and there's rumours that the rain is actually falling in the catchment. And the Queensland rainfall over the past month means that Lake Eyre will be filled over the next few months ( Read more... )

Yes, it's Spring - it's November, month of the freakish weather patterns. This is the month where we regularly get a week of 35+C topping days, right next to hail storms and cold fronts that seem straight from July or August ( Read more... )

Every day for the last week or so it has rained for part of the day. RAINED. Properly. It's supposed to storm today (the rain at the moment's making a good start on it!), and it looks like we're promised rain until mid next week from the forecasts. There's been rain over the last few months as well, including absolutely appalling storms while I ( Read more... )