Thanks, that's good to know. I hate long drizzly days.

Long torrential downpour days more your cup of tea then? That's what we have at the moment.

I didn't realise the rainy season went on quite so long!!

Its playing havoc with Himself's road building planning.

:looks at river running down both sides of house:

Apparently it's not supposed to be like this. Apparently Autumn/Winter are very very dry and sunny whilst chilly at night. Someone didn't tell BOM

I'm not so sure . Don't you have the kind of end of day storms that they have in Southern Africa? ...The storm clouds begin to gather at around 4pm, the rain comes down with a great "whoosh" by 4.30 and it's all finished by 5.15, everything washed and clean. By 5.45 all the surface water has evaporated and you'd barely know that it had rained at all Thats my kind of rain! God, now I feel second homesick

Errr, no. It started a few days ago and apart from a few hours yesterday it's been fairly full on since. Particularly torrential at the moment and the winds are building up so most of the trees around our place are bending into the horizontal. When it rains, it rains and don't stop.

All good though

He is right about the 'half an hour after its stopped it looks like it never rained' thing though

Well its like that here anyway.

Kids are hopeful that it'll rain again through the night and they'll skive off school tomorrow.

It is amazing how you can go from flooding to dry roads in a very short time. Those storm drains certainly do their work (providing they're not full of trees of course).

OMG you are right! Have PM'd you.

That's why it's called the wet season.

I thought the summer was wet season? have those pesky, rascally Aussies been teasing me?

No you're right...summer is the wet season in Brisbane where we get end of the day semi-tropical storms and winter is the dry season. Persistent cold rain like this is a lot more uncommon - but of course almost nowhere is exempt from it at some point.

On average should get 25 days this month without rain. Looks like this won't be an average May given this is the most extensive flooding since the big flood of '74.

OK so you can make yourself look fairly stupid with little help from anyone else

True.. unfortunately what they call the wet season in these here parts should have been several months ago

In Queensland and north Australia there isn't a traditional summer, autumn, winter and spring. Just the two wet and dry seasons. The wet season has just been extended as it hasn't stopped raining.