Archive for October 29th, 2007
Happy in Yarrahappini
October 29, 2007Rain! Again!
Steady flashes of lightening and crashing thunder kept me awake until well after midnight last night and I didn’t mind because it all came with buckets of rain, another couple of inches, perhaps.
Southwest of Brisbane, a place called Yarrahappini got nearly four inches (101mm) Sunday, yesterday, and set a 38-year record for rainfall in October.
Reports say our reservoirs, while not filling up, are maintaining at 20-21 percent capacity, an encouraging change from the downward slide we’ve been experiencing for months on end.
And predictions are for more thunderstorms, tonight and later this week. Could our luck be changing? Meteorologist Matt Pearce predicts the spread of rain across the interior of Australia through the rest of this week and offers this hopeful observation, “With a La Nina now in place, these systems are likely to become more frequent in coming months.”
Viva la La Nina! — Bob