Today is the seventh day in a row of good soaking rain.
It's quite unprecedented to have so much rain without it turning into a flood. So far the bulk of the rain has been in town and downstream with not so much in the mountains. It's quite possible of course that we could get a huge inflow from the Pilliga coinciding with another flush from Boggabri or Mount Kaputar and the situation could turn around quite rapidly. It might be time to dig out the canoes and inflatable boats, just in case :)
I've been observing the weather and keeping records since we moved to Narrabri in 1991. I went back through my records looking for long stretches of rainy days. The current rain period is very unusual. As of 5 pm last night we had had 6 days (now into the 7th and it's raining heavily) and in that time we have had 121 mm.
In November 2008 we had 10 days with a one day break in the middle for a total of 92 mm
In January 1999 we had 6 days in a row with a total of 99 mm.
In February 1998 we had 6 days for a total of 119 mm
In January 1997 we had 5 days with a total of 209 mm.
Nothing else in the last 20 years comes close to matching the length of this event or the consistency of the rain. It will be interesting to see if we end up exceeding the rain of January 2009.
Margaret's thinking of buying a clothes dryer, but I'd be guessing they are all sold out.
:LOL: I can certainly understand Margaret's thinking regarding the clothes dryer. Almost every morning, I check the radar to see if today will be a good day to wash cothes and hand them out!I do have a clothes dryer, but an evil machine it is! It's a propane dryer and tends to burn up the clothes. There is a screen in the back of the drum that somehow got a hole in it. It looks as if something was poked from the back leaving rough edges where the clothes get caught and develop burn marks. I think I'm just as far ahead to put it on the clothes line!
ReplyDelete:D We just have the much safer electrical items. We bought one when we were first married and living on the coast. It stopped working 7 or so years ago and until now we've never missed it.
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