We've just had a little bit of rain here in inner Syndey (we'll grow a good crop of tar & concete!) - I don't know how widespread it was or whether it got to where it's needed.

Alison - if you can't cope with Western Sydney's temperatures, no one can! Saturday I hadn't realised how hot other folks were until talking to Jenny at 4.30 about going to her BBQ/session - my part of inner Sydney was not at all hot. I left my rather ineffective fan to go to the phone & ddn't need to bring the fan with me. But it was oven hot walking to the station & still warm at her place 2 hours later. I couldn't believe it was supposed to be 39 around my way & had been in the 40's & 50s out in north western suburbia.

Rustic -thanks for the link. We also have a great Rain song - Hey, Rain, by Bill Scott - referring to tropical downpours in the wet (cyclone) season. I have at least 2 versions of it, but no words. It has lovely images of the river rising 38 feet (overnight) & a Johnston River crocodile living in the fridge.

Australia is the land of "droughts & flooding rains" (from Dorothy McKellar's classic poem "My country")


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