Weather = rain

Poem was written by the Australian bush poet John O'Brien and published in 1921. It goes on and describes the floods that followed the drought and then the bushfire danger resulting from the floods.

I can still remember my grade 4 teacher (about 50 years ago) reading it to us.

No rain yet and nothing much predicted for the next week.

Gary, just a look at the weather, are you or will you get any of the off shoot rain from the cyclone up north, hope so

60mm since yesterday morning!!!!

Yahoo!!!!!!

Unfortunately we have lost a couple of small roses (early HTs) in the heat but have potted up cuttings to replces them though not the same rose.

Also when I was walking around this morning in the rain I noticed that our old Teasing Georgia (one of only two DAs left in the garden) looks to have surcumed to the sun.

Melbourne has had the driest January in 120 years , no rain , this morning i had about a dozen drops fall on me , got my hopes up , but no , nothing , water tanks empty too .....

A friend of ours Gwenda that lives just outside of Cooktown has had 400mls of rain in the last 48hrs.

Have any of the banana benders had any

Sitting on the verandah bending a few bananas listening to the rain as we speak!

Our tally since it started on Thursday is 142mm. Been good steady rain with a few breaks. Not much runoff yet (our dam has prbably only gone up 200mm) as the heavy rain has not gotten this far south yet.

I dug up a bit of one of the gardens this morning when it was not raining and the rain has penetrated about 100mm into pretty hard ground. Other areas it has gone way down so its been a good drop.

That's not bad water Gary, your ground from what you had said previously needed it. We re expecting some from the Ex cyclone our way from this afternoon and on for about 4 days, I hope it is delivered.

The above says it all. As of 7am we have had 36mL with more promised today.

It's pouring here at present. At least (our gauge overflows at 140mm and it was overflowing this morning) 260mm since 5pm yesterday. Our dam is overflowing. It went up 2 metres over night.

We lost power overnight along with 30000 other homes and its not expected to be back on unto tomorrow.

Still we are not as bad off as others

Still we are not as bad off as others

Well said Gary

Betsy are you getting any of this rain coming from Qld.

roseman wrote:Betsy are you getting any of this rain coming from Qld.

This was from the previous lot of weather we had, how did you fare this time Betsy and others. We were promised 100% of 20 to mL yesterday and received 13mL. The photo's below are from this morning, sunrise towards the East and one now(7.30am) in a Westerly direction.
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The second shot is towards a house up the paddock from us. One of the daughters of the house got married there yesterday at 3pm, the arrangement was for a carriage with her in it to arrive in, at 2.30pm the rain came, other options came into play so all was good, at 3.20pm it stopped, so after the ceremony the carriage arrived to take the shots of her arriving for posterity. The wedding was to be in the gardens of the house, another option was played, the ceremony was carried out in the hay shed with church pews to make it an even more beautiful day for her.

The Hunter is awash, roseman. Vertical rain, horizontal rain, 45o angle rain, big drops, little droplets, - yooo wannit, we goddit.

There is a sunny interlude at the momen, but the Weatherzone radar tells me it's just a short break Once proudly borne rose canes have flopped everywhere , and the drought-loving eremophila nivea is angrily stabbing at the no-rain clause in her sodden contract. Toughen up, I tell her, this wet stuff is like golllddd, darlin'

Wet. Wet. Wet.
I think autumn has arrived. 43.5mm in the last 3-4hrs. And by the look of the radar ... yikes, we could get another 50mm tonight..!

Very happy garden.
Unhappy sheepies.

Congratulations on the arrival Wendy

I understand a lot of the N/coast NSW and Qld have had to much rain recently but we need it here in the country and other parts of Oz, somehow we need to share it around the link below is what is over us at present(6.00am). We have had around 45mL, still to dark to check mine
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Brisbane. Apparently we've had around 175mm according to the rader. Yesterday and today are the only days that hasn't rained, though I think it will do so today by the looks of it. Roses are loving it, the cat isn't. Wish I could package and send it to those who need it

Has it been raining?

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has any of the other Victorians been so lucky.

Yes. We've had a handy drop. *peeks outside to see if it's eased up enough to do chores*

Water the roses Wendy

I probably should - but I'm waiting to see how much we get out of the next rainband. It looks pretty impressive.

The water from the sky has got as far as Wagga Wagga with 9.2 mL and less towards us

Got a little bit of rain Roseman , not a whole lot , very windy , i think the wind has blown it away ......