Nope, just the wrong places. Remember, we're talking about a country three times the size of Western Europe. It'll take more than a few showers in suburban QLD and VIC to break the drought.

Qld outback is having biggest flood in 120 years. Drought broke in suburban Brisbane a few years ago.

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Not much of this water will impact the major dams

http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/index...e-weekly.shtml

Drought not really broken till substantial rain in the Murray catchment

Eh, that's NSW. Talking about drought in Qld?

This summer has been interesting. It's has not been hot at all, infact, just warm. (Hot by UK standards in other words). It's even been quite balmy in February, occasioning people to make comparisons with SE QLD.

We are in drought and have been getting 10-20pc less than the 30 or 40 year average but much of that has come in downpours which is great for large tanks and redistribution...

Just based on the greeness of the backyard , the worst year we had was 2007/8.

This year and last year have been far better.

People forget that Melbourne is supposed to be dry and dusty in February and the grass otherwise browning off. I couldn't believe how green Californian gardens were in March, and our yard had finally gone brown in a mid-March heatwave.

Just pointing out that rain in Qld impacts on the Darling River -which flows through NSW to SA
http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/menindee.shtml

Its all inter related QLD /NSW/Vic /SA

Remember it well

Strange isn't it that you accept the lack of greenery as normal when it is all down (well some anyway ) to political factors .

Maybe - the fact we can't use sprinkler systems for our personal enjoyment is political but watering gardens and maintaining gardens is not the natural order.

Look at the flora and fauna not on sprinkle systems.

We saw a movie made in the 70s and it showed a family down the Mornington Peninsula back then. It looked like Cyprus and hot as hell.

We saw it in a wet Melbourne winter and my wife who had never seen Melbourne in the summer could not believe it could get that hot.

raining again

We could do with some of that rain in regional WA, the last time it rained here was 19th December - 0.4mm and before that 6mm on 20th November - it is so dry

Drought is alive and kicking in Pilbara region.

People who havn't lived here for long think short term water supply means no drought. When you have been here for a while you know better, much better.

Qld situation

Flood: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225838836588

Formal decision in April whether the current falls will break most of the remaining drought in Qld but most predicting it will as highest flood levels in 100/120 years.

Some area's where drought has already been revoked: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/4789_13811.htm

Brisbane was declared drought free on 1 March 2008: http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/Qu...Mar/index.html

A bit blasé Vash, to put it in perspective, from an Australian point of view, in Queensland an area larger than the whole of Victoria is currently underwater.
The worst floods for over 120 years is hardly "a few showers"

What's that area measured in Belgiums?