"Chookie" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

:-)) I had to smile at that one. Sydney has been getting
lovely
lots of rain. Not in the catchment of course but over many of
the
burbs.

Not really. It has moisten the mulch/topsoil, but isn't really
going
deep.

Well that's not what the TV weather reports have reported. Lots
of
decent falls for months while the country has had sod all.

Hmph. It's true we had the wettest winter since 1999, according to
the
Bureau, with 403mm.

You lucky buggers! :-))

The problem is that even though June was cold, the temps
in July and Aug were above average (though the Aug rainfall was
average).
Then September's rainfall was high, but we also had the hottest Sept
ever...
followed by the hottest and driest Oct ever. And that hot September
had the
August winds in it, too! The extra rain arrived at the right time
for
establishing vegies, but of course it then evaporated.

IOW, it's the same here as everywhere else. The climate is hotter
and
whackier.

But you've at least had rain. That record rainfall hasn't happened
elsewhere in NSW (except for record low falls).

We do get more rain here, but it's less than we used to get between
El Ninos. We also don't get persistent rain much: it's much more
showery and
intermittent than it used to be.

I think that applies everywhere these days.