Unbelieveable!

[B92 8NW]

Pretty stormy tonight in surburbian melbourne, quite heavy rainfall. But hows this for the radar image:

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR023.gif?20061112205350

The rain has cleverly managed to avoid most of the major water storages:D .

How are you from other states battling?

[incisor]

Pretty stormy tonight in surburbian melbourne, quite heavy rainfall. But hows this for the radar image:

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR023.gif?20061112205350

The rain has cleverly managed to avoid most of the major water storages:D .

How are you from other states battling?

just got back from goondiwindi, boy it is pretty dry out there... much of the vegetation is silver....

love the country tho....

[JDNSW]

Been cloudy all day, but not the slightest hint of rain. Bit windy though.
John

[DeeJay]

Yup, looks about right, I went down the peninsula today and left the rain behind. You could see it to the North.

[Bytemrk]

just got back from goondiwindi, boy it is pretty dry out there... much of the vegetation is silver....

love the country tho....

It looked really dry when I came through there in mid september Inc..... I bet it's even worse now..:( poor buggers..

Mark

[harro]

Our dam up here is 99% full and the 'wet' starts in about a month or so.

We have been using water going over the spillway up until a few weeks ago.

But having said that it is not a big dam capacity wise for our ever expanding population.

Nationally we are the "lucky few"

[JDNSW]

News tonight - drought figures for NSW updated to the end of last month - only a little over 2% of the state not in drought and predictions of rises of the order of 30% in fresh food prices by Christmas. Latest forecast for the NSW wheat crop is down to about 20% of last year.
My own rainfall for the year to the end of October is the lowest recorded since I have lived here (12yrs). There has been less than 25mm in the last four months. At least the paddocks are getting so bare that the likely fires should be easy to stop.
John

[B92 8NW]

News tonight - drought figures for NSW updated to the end of last month - only a little over 2% of the state not in drought and predictions of rises of the order of 30% in fresh food prices by Christmas. Latest forecast for the NSW wheat crop is down to about 20% of last year.
My own rainfall for the year to the end of October is the lowest recorded since I have lived here (12yrs). There has been less than 25mm in the last four months. At least the paddocks are getting so bare that the likely fires should be easy to stop.
John

We're in North-East Vic. Paddocks are totally bare soil, and last it week it rained for about half an hour... didnt even penetrate just washed heaps of soil down hill. And the worst of summer is to come.:o

[JDNSW]

..... And the worst of summer is to come.:o

Yes - looks like it should at the end of a long hot summer, but it is only mid-November.
John

[dmdigital]

Now this is a storm (TC Monica earlier this year)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/TropicalCycloneMonica.jpg

[harro]

Our friend Larry.http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/qld/cyclone/tc_larry/images/sat_2133z-qld.jpg

[Ace]

It has been raining here on an off for over a week, we had a heap of rain weekend before last and a thunderstorm yesterday. In all probably had 50mm of rain, things are still very dry and the lower of our to dams is still dry. Matt

[JDNSW]

Well, we had thunderstorms yesterday, lots of lightning, and enough rain to cover the ground with a space of about two inches between the drops. And now there is a fire in the forest about 15km to the NW of here. Not much wind at present and I am told National Parks have about 20 men two helicopters and a fixed wing fighting it - only about 40ha burnt out at present. But let's hope the wind doesn't get up, although there is a patch they 'fuel reduced' last autumn between there and here.
John