flyfisher wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:16 pm
Remember the flash drought last summer? Well looks like this is how our summer are to be now. Cannot see decent rain for a long time.
Yep, really starting to dry out now. Three weeks since the last proper rain here. Will get to four looking at the Progs. We have had three mini events during that period, but they dropped only 5, 5 and 4mm so all dried up in a day or so.
We’ve had three spells up here of 6-7 weeks without proper rain (back in 2003, 2009 and 2018). They each hammered the vegetation, so hoping we don’t get another one. The one last year killed a lot of trees and ferns, and was the worst in the past 18 years
Progs pointing to a possible rain event this coming Friday/Saturday. Not huge, but maybe 5-15mm pretty widely. Too far off to get too excited, but first event that has shown up for a while. Meanwhile, a week of heat. Not too bad in the south, but the north will have another historic heatwave. EC showing two 46Cs for Mildura which is extreme for even them.
Up here, blowing a gale from the south this morning with stratus blowing through the trees. Doesn’t feel like a mid high 20s day, but guess we will see.