William Olive <<email>> writes:

The weather patterns on the east coast for November were very cold and wet. We arrived at Gulgong on Sunday and were told that it had sleeted the day before. It was very cold and windy on Sunday and the day was canned.

Friday we had 35mm of rain in one downpour, with more overnight. The strip was too wet to use, so even though Saturday may have been able to have a task, we could not launch.

Patrick dicing with Huey (Ozzie god of the weather), there were lightning bolts belting the next paddock over while he was out on the strip. His wife was watching and was quite concerned for his safety.

I'm away in Tamworth for work this week, and it flooded here (and Manilla etc) last weekend, so there's rubbish all over beside the road.

I do not know the official status of the drought. Around Tamworth it has being raining for quite a while and the area is very green, the greenest I have seen it in over twenty years. The Hunter Valley is also green, but not much river flow. Keepit dam is still very low, but should be getting a bit in now, the Hunter dams are pretty full since we've had 2 years of rain.

Out West, even around Gulgong, it is still pretty dry. I think the farmers were happy with the rain there last week.

South Australia could well be still in drought, but I do not know